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Jake Benson started the topic Tricky seal impression in the discussion
Arabic script manuscripts on Humanities Commons 1 week, 4 days agoIf you’ve a moment, please see this seal impression. Any ideas?
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Jake Benson started the topic Unusual calligram? in the discussion
Arabic script manuscripts on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week agoGreetings everyone,
Rylands Persian MS 27, a Bahāristān of Jāmī once held in the Mughal library bears this unsual marking on folio 1b, adjacent to the header. Have any of you encountered such a marking previously? I wonder if it might possibly be some sort of stylized, undotted Yā Kabīkaj formula? What do you think?
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Jake Benson started the topic Petition in the discussion
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Jake Benson started the topic OCR in the discussion
Arabic script manuscripts on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks agoTerrific news for non-Latin script specialists: Archive.org will take advantage of new advancements in OCR to reprocess printed multi-script manuscript catalogues, which currently misinterpret non-Latin scripts as gibberish. They just reprocessed one volume of Rieu’s British Museum catalogue https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008986313 and…[Read more]
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Jake Benson started the topic Welcome! in the discussion
Arabic script manuscripts on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks agoWelcome to everyone interested in deciphering challenging examples of handwritten Arabic script, inclusive of all languages, as well as associated topics spanning everything from codicology and materials, seal impressions, as well as early printing methods. I currently catalogue Persian manuscripts held in the John Rylands Research Institute and…[Read more]
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Jake Benson edited the post Greetings! in the group
Arabic script manuscripts: on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks agoWelcome to a new space for sharing anything and everything regarding Arabic script written heritage, inclusive of all languages and variantions, and related codicological topics.
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