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Account of the DFG Project "Qalamos". #manuscripts #Asia #Africa #catalogs | @stabiberlin.bsky.social | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek | Universität Leipzig | Website: www.qalamos.net | Blog: https://od-portal.hypotheses.org
The visitors from the Hindu temple were very knowledgeable, asked many interesting questions and were able to contribute a lot of interesting information. You can find the album's metadata and portrait online on #Qalamos: ..../3
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.... the most important leader of the Marathas in the 17th century, who inflicted great damage on the Mughals and Deccan Sultanates.On this occasion, 6 other noteworthy or rare manuscripts were also shown. .../2
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Last Friday, approximately 60 people from the #SriGaneshaHinduTemple, Berlin, visited #StabiBerlin in order to admire Shivaji Maharaj's precious Deccani painting portrait on the occasion of the annual celebration (Shiv Jayanti) in honour of Shivaji Maharaj, ....../1
02.03.2026 13:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Only 10 #Manuscripts this week from the #Vatican
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some Ge'ez (including music), an Arbor Philosophiae, a Formularium, some classical works and more (not much more)
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
#GutenMorgen ☕ Unser Programm der Woche:
☀️ Mo, 2.3.: Datencafé – mit Einführung zum Thema „Automatische Texterkennung mit eScriptorium“
☀️ Mi, 4.3.: (Breiter) Kanon im Kulturwerk: Ein Gespräch über die Ausstellung romantischer Autor:innen
Alle Termine im Kalender 👉 blog.sbb.berlin/termine/
The manuscript belongs to a collection of Indian manuscripts acquired by the Königliche Bibliothek in 1893 from the Indian merchant Bhagavandās Kevaldās (1850-1900).
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The main text is centered, surrounded by a commentary in very small characters. The manuscript contains 36 detailed miniatures in the West Indian style. In the upper left corner you can see depictions of Mahāvīra, the religious reformer and spiritual leader of the Jains, and monks in white robes.
19.02.2026 09:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Indian manuscripts will now be regularly exhibited at #StabiKulturwerk (stabi-kulturwerk.de), such as this elegant Jain manuscript (Ms. or. fol. 1708, Uttarādhyayanasūtrāvacūri, digitised in #Qalamos) mimicking the shape of a palm leaf on which Indian texts were formerly written.
19.02.2026 09:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Stellenausschreibung: Mitarbeiter:in Wissensmanagementsysteme im Bereich #OpenAccess
E11, Teilzeit 50%, befristet bis 30.04.2028.
Bewerbungsschluss:
06.03.2026 blog.sub.uni-hamburg.de?p=41971
Ching, Chao-jung & Michaël Peyrot (eds.). 2026. Text, script and language in Bactria and Serindia. Papers on cultural and linguistic interactions in pre-Islamic Central Asia (Beiträge zur Iranistik 55). Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag.
www.biblioiranica.info/text-script-...
Our latest post is an Editor’s Digest of our Middle Eastern Studies publications from February 2025 to February 2026, curated by Maria S. Thomas (@vuamsterdam.bsky.social ).
Read the full articles on our blog!
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/02/17/e...
2025-26 DO Middle Eastern Studies posts⬇️:
Visited the Cairo Geniza collection in the Cambridge UL for the first time today. Almost lost for words at the amount and diversity of materials, languages and scripts. Herewith my photo of a Hebrew primer used in 10th century Egypt to teach kids to write
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Wie zeigt sich pflanzliches Leben in Sammlungen und Archiven? Die kommende Online-Sonderausstellung Plant Matters – Vegetal Art across Collections des 4A_Lab beleuchtet Geschichten hinter den Kunstobjekten und erzählt von ihren Verflechtungen mit Pflanzen. Eine Preview jetzt im #SPKMagazin
18.02.2026 08:36 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
book jacket with inverted medieval text
"The Early Illustrated 'Apollonius of Tyre' Studies of a Sinai Palimpsest" by Head of Research of the Old Books New Science Lab / CMS Alum, Jessica Lockhart, with Michelle P. Brown, is now available from Barkhuis Publishing. 📖
www.barkhuis.nl/product/the-...
We regularly publish overviews of available digital sources in our sub-disciplines. If you're a student or teacher of South Asian, Central Asian, or East Asian languages and civilizations, check out our latest guides:
(links below⬇️)
A classical Sufi-inflected reading of Ramadan: Qur’an 2:183-186 links fasting to taqwa -- and unexpectedly to divine nearness. From the nafs’ “fuel” to the heart as a polished mirror, it traces how hunger can open a different kind of attention, culminating in Laylat al-Qadr and a return to fitra.
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The #Qalamos team wishes everyone a Happy Valentine's Day on Feb. 14th! 💘The following illustrations show various romantic scenes from #manuscripts from Iranian and Indian writing cultures💝
#HappyValentine
(left to right)
fig. 1: shorturl.at/XfJKy
fig. 2: shorturl.at/ZC6F6
fig. 3: shorturl.at/Hg7cG
The research portal @propylaeum.bsky.socialSEARCH now includes a new subject section on the Ancient Near East, allowing our subject‑specific holdings in Halle to be searched within this space.
More info:
www.propylaeumsearch.de/propylaeumse...
#ancientstudies
#Chancen | Fellowships für PostDocs und etablierte Wissenschaflter am Historischen Kolleg, München zu Beendigung von Buchprojekten | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...
Bewerbungsfrist: 30. April 2026
The Call for Papers for #TUC2026 at the University of Passau is already open! We invite submissions on the role of specialised vs. general-purpose AI in research. Present your insights to the global Transkribus community.
View formats and submit here: tuc.transkribus.org/call-for-pap...
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Journal of Coptic Studies Vol. 27 (2025) poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?... @peeterspublishers.bsky.social
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Conference Announcement!
Sanctity and Ritual Remembrance: Comparative Approaches to Christian Liturgical Memory from Medieval Iberia to Central Asia
ÖAW, Vienna |
5–6 March 2026
Using our mobile CT scanner ENCI, our researchers have produced a high-resolution 3D reconstruction of the well‑known Georgian manuscript MS 2058/1, the Sinai Lectionary.
This and more contributions from CSMC members are available in the latest open-access issue of ‘Digital Kartvelology’:
Workshop on Imperial Frontiers in Münster
From 9–10 February, Philip Bockholt participated in the workshop "Imperial Frontiers – Local and Global Entanglements", organised by the "Centre for Empire Studies. (Post)colonial Histories and Global Entanglements" (CES), an
A chunk of flat stone with a worn away inscription
Is your research related to Asia or Africa?
Join us on Friday 27 February for an open day exploring our Asian and African collections as well as those of @soasuni.bsky.social , @sas-news.bsky.social and @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Book your place here: link.bl.uk/ctf
I have fantastic, chatty, thoughtful students in my big lecture class this semester! I posted this slide with the identifying information withheld, asked them to describe what they were seeing, what they thought about what they were seeing, and what they thought the books might be... 1/2
11.02.2026 02:48 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
HJS Research Fellow Abigail Pearson has discovered a previously unidentified version of the Syriac Book of Medicines at the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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Digital Philology Vol. 14, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56242 #openaccess @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social Unlikening Translation: Words, Sounds, Events, Things @lauramorreale.bsky.social @byzcapp.bsky.social @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy
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#Event | The Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies of the University of Oxford invites applications for the Hebrew Manuscript Studies Workshop: Codicology, Palaeography, | 22 June-3 July 2026 in Oxford | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...
Deadline for applications: February 20, 2026
