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On 16 March, Kristof D’hulster presented his paper “Language Matters in the Mamluk Sultanate, or what Turkic Had that Arabic and Circassian Did Not” at Wolfson College, Oxford, at the invitation of James White (AMES). The talk was part ...
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It identifies individuals in the following roles: commissioner, scribe, donor, purchaser, previous owner, reader, etc. This applies, where data are available, to all collections whose metadata are presented in Qalamos.
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Metadata regarding the #provenance of a handwritten document is also a central focus of the #Qalamos project and portal. The “Provenance” module (presented as "History of the object") contains metadata on an object’s history ideally in chronological order: From its creation to its current location.
Spaziert mit uns durch #Berlin: Auf den #Provenienzspaziergängen am heutigen Tag der #Provenienzforschung geben unsere Forscher:innen und die vieler anderer Berliner Institutionen euch Einblicke in ihre Arbeit. Alle Infos und wo ihr heute mitlaufen könnt 👉 blog.sbb.berlin/termin/spure...
.....We associate this with wishes for peace and hope and a new beginning.
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Best wishes for the upcoming Easter holidays with this beautiful miniature of the Resurrection (#Qalamos shelfmark Minutoli 291, dated 1450, from the village of Harhoc near Lake Van). ..../1
Beige background, with two images superimposed. They are the recto (front) and verso (back) of the same document. The documents appear to be on brown paper with black ink and written in New Persian script. They have been glued onto a notebook with lines/squares and written notes around them. Images of the document, Firuzkuh 3, are reproduced courtesy of Nabi Saqee and can be found in the Invisible East Digital Corpus.
📢 The latest Document of the Month is live on our project website.
📚 Read Jawid Mojaddedi's exploration of Firuzkuh 3 “Whoever Places the Hand of Good Actions in the Circle of Chivalry”: A Homily in the Jawānmardī Mystical Tradition at bit.ly/DotMMar26
#medievalmonday #manuscriptmonday #firuzkuh
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My latest publication as a follow-up to an earlier one: "Nineteen Addenda to a Preliminary Handlist of Manuscripts from the Library of al-Ashraf Qāytbāy," Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 2017 (2026): 195-203. One of the tangible results of a great/frustrating research trip to Cairo last year.
Call for Papers: Workshop on Biography and Hagiography in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish
From 17–19 February 2027, the workshop “Exemplary Lives in the Pre-Modern Islamic World: Biography and Hagiography in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish”, jointly organised ...
a manuscript containing a drawing with circles and marginal notes
Commentaries and glosses functioned as vehicles for the study of astronomy. @nadineloehr.bsky.social presents "Reflections on the Many Forms of Commentary in Astronomical and Astrological Manuscripts" in this week's Gotha Manuscript Talk
📆 Wednesday, 1 April 2026, 6:15 CET
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Lecture on "Translation as a Cultural Technique" in Kyoto
On 30 March, Philip Bockholt presented "Translation as a Cultural Technique" at the Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto, Japan. His lecture dealt with translation practices within the Ottoman Empire, focusing on ...
⚠️Nutzungsinformation: An vier Tagen rund um #Ostern von #Karfreitag, 3. April bis #Ostermontag, 6. April 2026, bleibt die #Stabi geschlossen. Alle Infos zur Bereitstellung von Medien findet ihr hier 👉 blog.sbb.berlin/ostern-2026/
The Afterlife of a Medieval Persian Text: The Qalandar-nama of Abdullah Ansari www.medievalists.net/2026/03/medi... #history #medieval
The manuscript (MUL 00105) is in the collection of Mumtazul Ulama Library in Lucknow, India. See each page in HMML Reading Room: vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/833306
This Arabic text on coping with the death of loved ones and children was written in 1547 CE by the Lebanese author Zayn al-Dīn al-Shahīd al-Thānī, the "Second Martyr" of Shīʻī Islam.
Copied in 1710 CE, it is now in the collection of Mumtāz al-ʻUlamā Library in Lucknow, India: https://bit.ly/4rpp2Iv
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Alle Termine im Kalender 👉 blog.sbb.berlin/termine/
The project facilitates working with #manuscripts and generates new research results. @stabiberlin.bsky.social with its collection of Hebrew manuscripts that are already indexed in #Qalamos, is now one of the project's partners.
The international project Midrash (Migrations of Textual and Scribal Traditions via Large-Scale Computational Analysis of Medieval Manuscripts in Hebrew Script) is pioneering for the analysis of the paleography and text recognition of #Hebrew_manuscripts.
www.midrash.eu
In our new essay, "Buddhism and AI: Another Look," @alicecasalini.bsky.social reflects on her transition from AI optimism to "neo-Luddism," arguing that Buddhism and AI are fundamentally incompatible.
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In the Arabic colophon of the Greek Psalter Sinai gr. 32, the commissioner is called "ambā Zaḫaryā al-ʔIskāf" (the word "al-ʔiskāf" end of l. 4). The scribe Michael the Priest (al-Qissīs) calls himself "tilmīḏ ambā Filūta". The latter might actucally have been the ascetic writer Philotheus of Sinai.
Our new article is part III of "At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France" by Ilyes Mechentel (@unibe.ch). In part III, Ilyed explores why Arabic Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) adoption lags behind Latin scripts despite achieving technical parity.
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We're looking for a doctoral researcher to join our ‘Turning Rock into Pixels’ project group and explore the rich cultural heritage of the Jewish cemetery in Hamburg-Altona.
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...The work was printed on wove paper by the renowned Ismail Bei Gazprinsky (1851-1914) in Crimea. Permission to print was granted on October 20, 1898, in St. Petersburg, see #Qalamos: qalamos.net/receive/DE1B...
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Please admire this complete, small-format Qur'an from the collection of the Max Freiherr von Oppenheim Foundation (shelfmark Hs. Opp. or. 90), bound in green leather and housed in a slipcase of the same material. .../1
Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete Vol. 71, No. 2 (2025) www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/... @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social
Illustration from a Greek manuscript of John Climacus's "Scala paradisi". Two monks are climbing a ladder, the one at the bottom is wearing shoes, the one at the top is barefoot. Next to them is a church and a giant saint (John?), who is giving the monk in shoes heavy metal horns. Source: https://asia-archive.si.edu/object/F1909.152/.
#Arabic phrase of the day:
حقا ان لباس النعلين مضادده لمن يصعد في السلم
ḥaqqan ʔanna libās an-naʕlayn muḍādada li-man yaṣʕad fī s-sullam
"Wearing sandals is, indeed, counterproductive for anyone climbing a ladder"
(from anon. Ar. Enc. for Mt Sinai)
In his new essay, Leon Woltermann argues that Indonesian literature cannot be separated from its dynamic system of circulation, which shapes audiences, reading practices, and the nature of literature itself.
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In addition to our regular articles, we also publish the proceedings of our annual conferences and reports from workshops and conferences in the Digital Humanities hosted by our colleagues. Check out the conference proceedings and reports on our website!
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Among the highlights: a 4th-century papyrus codex (shelfmark: Ms. or. fol. 3065; image above) with the Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians (acquired 1886), and a Proverbs codex with its rare original binding (shelfmark: Ms. or. oct. 978, image below).
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