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Archaeology Gain Access To Rare and Stunning “Manuscripts of the Muslim World” by means of UPenn’s Virtual library

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Archaeology Gain Access To Rare and Stunning “Manuscripts of the Muslim World” by means of UPenn’s Virtual library

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From Khamsah./ خمسه by Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 نظامى گنجوى ، (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

As organizations are shuttered forever due to ongoing coronavirus embargoes, more and more organizations seem to be taking actions to make their collections accessible and explorable by virtual ways. Whether this is because of the selfless aspect of art that looks for to bring indicating to life throughout distressed times, or the methods which the disruption of business-as-usual has actually made it possible for much of us to enter into the “deep cuts” of our order of business, the outcome is an abundance of really beautiful online resources to delight and divert us throughout self-quarantine efforts. Current among these, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries revealed a brand-new addition to “ OPenn“– the Manuscripts of the Muslim World task.

According to the site, OPenn “provides total sets of high-resolution archival pictures of cultural heritage product from the collections of its contributing organizations, along with machine-readable detailed and technical metadata.” All products on OPenn remain in the general public domain or launched under Creative Commons licenses as Free Cultural Works. The MMW Job identifies these products as “primarily unresearched,” maybe motivating a curious army of sequestered armchair historians to dig into this wealth more than 500 manuscripts and 827 paintings from the Islamicate world broadly construed.

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al-Mazāmīr al-muqaddasah./ المزامير المقدسة (Bryn Mawr, PA, Bryn Mawr College Libraries, Special Collections) Copy finished in 304 A.H. (al-ḥālīyah) (916-917 C.E.), by Buṭrus ibn Yūsuf (f. 76 v)

” Together these holdings represent in great breadth the growing intellectual and cultural heritage of Muslim lands from 1000 to 1900, covering mathematics, astrology, history, law, literature, along with the Qur’ an and Hadith,” checks out the MMW site. “The bulk of the collection includes manuscripts in Arabic and Persian, along with examples of Coptic, Samaritan, Syriac, Turkish, and Berber.” OPenn partnered primarily with Columbia University, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the University of Pennsylvania, and additionally got considerable contributions from Bryn Mawr College and Haverford College.

” The goal of this task was to find and digitize all the Islamicate manuscripts in Philadelphia collections and along the way we partnered with Columbia on a grant to take a multi-city technique provided the strength of the collection there,” said Mitch Fraas, Senior Citizen Curator of Special Collections for UPenn Libraries, in an e-mail with Hyperallergic. “We take a broad method to ‘Muslim World’ and consist of texts associated with Christianity (Coptic and Syriac mss. galore), Hinduism (epics equated into Persian in Mughal India), science, innovation, music, and so on but which were produced in the historical Muslim world. There are mss. in Persian, Arabic, and Turkish naturally but also in Coptic, Tamazight, Avestan, etc.”

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From Kitāb Duʻāʼ al-Jawshan/ كتاب دعاء الجوشن

( Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

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From al-Qurʼān./ [القرآن] (New York City, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Burke Library, Union Theological Academy)
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From Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār./ [مسالك الابصار في ممالك الامصار] by Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʻUmarī, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá, 1301-1349 ابن فضل الله العمري ، احمد بن يحيى ، (University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

According to project cataloger, Dr. Kelly Tuttle, “ From scribal, reader’s and owner’s notes, to design, copy and lighting style, to later harm, repair and sales each manuscript has its own story to tell. Cataloging only starts to brush the surface. The primary 3 collections in this job are each so different in their focus that dealing with cataloging them together has been both a real delight and a great education in Islamicate manuscript studies.”

Consisted of amongst the works are a Qur’ an made on the island of Malta by a prisoner, which Kelly identified, and a appeal with Quranic verses in Arabic and periodic Soninke(a West African language) words in Arabic script. According to Fraas, this was collected likely from a Muslim person who was oppressed in Haiti or Jamaica in the mid-18 th century.

These are just a couple of gems amongst a collection offering days and weeks of product that will thrill antiquities scholars, devotees of religious research studies or professionals of Islam, those brought in to rare books, and anybody else trying to find a window into another time and location during these anxious days.

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