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Learn about how and why builders in a desert oasis in #Jordan made a reservoir with stones that fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle in my new article: "Fragmentation and Reassembly: Decoration, Technique, and Meaning at an Early Islamic Platform" doi.org/10.1080/00043079.202…
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Just released and #OpenAccess. I've been waiting for years to see these letters attributed to the emperor Leo III and the caliph ʿUmar II published.
isac.uchicago.edu/article/no…
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A rich and diverse library and archive of sources by women creatives from the Ottoman Empire & Turkey. A true find for researchers looking to diversify their sources!
#ottomanstudies #turkishstudies
kadineserleri.org/
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New data set for the author al-Nuwayri (d. 1333). I will discuss in A Cultural History of the Arabic Book (EUP, 2025/6). The PowerBI app helps to distinguish which source an Arabic writer might have used to create his own book, out of many possibilities. zenodo.org/records/13145269
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Relief of a European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus), thought to be a Roman work of the 2nd/3rd century CE, Sala degli Animali, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Museums, inv. no 460 (Spinola 1996: 149).
An exciting new book on the amazing collection in Leiden.
A very beautiful new publication that has just come out along with the opening of the new Middle Eastern Library in Leiden.
I myself have a small contribution in it about one of the cool Muṣḥafs present in the Leiden special collections.
lup.nl/publications/history/…
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We’ve now released 1,000 of our digitised manuscripts, including the Sherborne Missal, My Ladye Nevells Booke, and Octateuch, Four Gospels and Synodicon.
This is an interim resource and we'll be improving and adding to it as soon as we can: bit.ly/BLDigitisedManuscript…
ALT Digitised page from the Sherborne Missal.
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Another volume from the magnificent Qur'an manuscript seized by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V during the sack of Tunis in 1535, offered on sale at Sotheby’s!
A thread about its history 🧵1/6
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A seemingly modern moment of abstraction in a medieval manuscript, representing silence as a yellow rectangle: publicdomainreview.org/colle…
“And when he opened the 7th seal, there followed a silence in heaven about the space of half an hour”
(Silos Apocalypse, BL Add MS 11695)
Today's big mood: metmuseum.org/art/collection…
New work from Jerrilynn Dodds just in time for my class on the art of the medieval Mediterranean arc-humanities.org/978180270…
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We’re now able to confirm restoration dates for some of our key services.
You’ll be able to access more content, view digitised manuscripts and request items remotely again this September.
Our CEO Sir Roly Keating explains more in his latest blog: bit.ly/BLCyberBlogAugust
ALT A woman looks up at a large format digital screen, which displays a digitised scan of a medieval manuscript.
It’s probably older than the pyramids of Giza by several hundred years, and much more enigmatic. Nobody knows exactly why it or hundreds of other carved stones found in the region were produced. They probably served as status symbols, but their function beyond that is unclear.
You can see some great photos of other examples of these carved balls here amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/06/29/w…
And even find 3d models on @Sketchfab sketchfab.com/3d-models/neol…
