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Stern, Dieter. "Ruthenian Devotional Songs As Collectors’ Items?" East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies 8, no. 2 (October 18, 2021): 123–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.21226/ewjus516.
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At the turn of the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries, syllabic devotional songs in Ruthenian (RDS) make their first appearance as occasional appendices or notes in the margins of manuscripts serving quite divergent functions (triodia, evangelia and the like). The first systematic collections of RDS were compiled abroad by Ruthenian monks having left Ukraine for monasteries around Moscow from the 1660s onwards. It required several more decades, till the beginning of the eighteenth century, before these songs were also being systematically collected in song manuscripts throughout the Ruthenian lands themselves. The article argues against established views to the effect that this documentary gap was due to a massive loss of seventeenth-century Ruthenian song manuscripts. It should rather be taken at face value as an indication that some perceptual change with respect to devotional songs is likely to have taken place among Ruthenian literate classes at the beginning of the eighteenth century. It is argued that the rise of Ruthenian song manuscripts marks the beginning of a collecting culture, which treats devotional songs as a cherished and coveted collectable, where heretofore no particular value seems to have been accorded to these songs. The article explores the social profiles of song collectors and the individual makeup of song collections to offer a hypothetical outline of this emerging collecting culture, addressing issues of modes of exchange, methods of collecting and compiling, the specific relationship between collector and collectable, with a view to arguing for a highly individualized and intimate culture between private devotion and incipient object-oriented consumerism.
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Mandasari, Evi, Harmansyah, and Istiqomatunnisak. "THE ROLE OF THE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTOR IN BANDA ACEH." Indonesian Journal of Islamic History and Culture 3, no. 1 (May 31, 2022): 43–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.22373/ijihc.v3i1.1597.
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The goal of this research is to determine what function manuscript collectors play in Banda Aceh and what manuscript collections are available to them. This study used a qualitative research method in which the data was collected by observation, interviews, and documentation procedures, as well as a literature review and previous references. According to the findings of the study, manuscript collectors in Banda Aceh play a variety of activities, including caring for and preserving manuscripts, teaching, using social media, and motivating the younger generation. Tarmizi Abdul Hamid and Masykur Syafruddin are two manuscript collectors discussed by the authors. The collections of these two individuals are very distinct. The collections of these two collectors are quite distinct. Masykur has roughly 495 manuscript collections that have been inventoried with varied themes, whereas Tarmizi has 598 collections. The lack of funding and human resources for manuscript maintenance are problems that collectors encounter in general.
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Burrows, Toby. "Collecting Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Twentieth-Century Great Britain and North America." Museum Worlds 7, no. 1 (July 1, 2019): 45–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/armw.2019.070104.
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Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts were a significant commodity in the antiquarian sales market throughout the twentieth century, sought out by very wealthy collectors and small-scale buyers. The history of this manuscript market has not been analyzed systematically. This article is a first attempt to identify themes and trends across the century, beginning with the dominance of the great American Gilded Age collectors like Henry Huntington and the Morgans and their need to memorialize themselves. It argues that future research needs to assemble comprehensive data on prices and buyers in order to make possible more systematic analyses of trends and activities, and a more sophisticated understanding of the different reasons for which collectors collected and of the changing nature of manuscripts as objects with their own biographical trajectories and their own agency.
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Davidson, Garrett. "On the History of the Princeton University Library Collection of Islamic Manuscripts." Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 13, no. 4 (September 26, 2022): 421–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1878464x-01303009.
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Abstract Princeton University’s collection of Islamic manuscripts is by far the largest collection of its kind in the Western hemisphere and one of the most valuable collections in the world. It consists of some 13,500 manuscripts with diverse origins in public and private libraries from the Western to the Eastern Islamic lands. The collection is not only notable for its size and diversity, but also its quality, containing a large number of autograph and otherwise unique manuscripts. Despite its importance, its histories and provenances have not been the subject of an in-depth study. This paper begins to fill this lacuna. Drawing on a number of previously unstudied archival and documentary sources, including personal correspondence and paratextual manuscript notes, the article traces the development of the sub-collections, studies the collectors who built them, their methods and sources, and tells the stories of their collections’ journeys to Princeton.
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Johnson, Eric J. "Manuscripts in "Fly-Over" States: An Assembly of Essays Highlighting Medieval Manuscripts around the American Midwest." Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies 8, no. 2 (September 2023): 307–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mns.2023.a916132.
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Abstract: Thousands of manuscript fragments and intact codices reside in collections across the American Midwest, but most remain largely unknown to and unexplored by the scholarly community because of their perceived remoteness from more traditional centers of book collecting on the East and West Coasts. This essay introduces a special collection of ten articles highlighting various individual manuscripts and library collections in so-called fly-over states. From broken Bibles to Near Eastern masterpieces, and from small assemblies of manuscripts to large-scale digital collaborations that aim to expose the Midwest's rich manuscript resources, the topics of each article represent remarkable opportunities for scholarship, teaching, outreach, and collaboration across the manuscript studies field.
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Hunter, Tavian. "South Asian collection development at the British Museum: a commentary on the inclusion of audio-visual and digital content." Art Libraries Journal 44, no. 1 (January 2019): 23–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/alj.2018.38.
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The British Museum's collection represents the history of British collecting taste since its founding in 1753. Over this time span, many important collectors have played a pivotal role in the development of the British Museum's South Asian collection. Through various acquisition methods, a number of illustrated manuscripts, albums, and photographical archives have been acquired for the museum's permanent collection. This development has coincides with the growing reference collection in the Department of Asia Library. With changes in collection practices, there is a growing question about the appropriateness of audio-visual and multimedia acquisitions for both the museum and the Department of Asia Library. A select history of the South Asian collection is presented alongside the development of the research collections and exploration into digital repositories.
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Navruzov, Amir R. "RESULTS OF ARCHEOGRAPHIC RESEARCH IN DAGESTAN IN 2017―2018." History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Caucasus 15, no. 2 (June 25, 2019): 282–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.32653/ch152282-291.
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The article deals with the results of archeographic studies, carried out by the Institute of history, archeology and ethnography of DSC RAS in 2017-2018.The introductory part covers methods of an archeographic work in examining manuscripts: each manuscript is described in detail, according to the description plan approved by the Institute’s Department of Oriental Studies, and includes positions that give a detailed description of a descriptive unit under study and which forms the basis of archeographic research.The main body reviews archeographic studies in 2017 in 4 regions of Dagestan, where manuscripts were discovered: 3 new manuscript collections in Akushinsky district, 2 collections in Levashinsky district, 2 collections in Kayakentsky district, 10 collections in Karabudakhentsky one – overall 17 collections, including manuscripts and a large number of old-printed books.Among the arabographic materials, there are findings in following branches of medieval Arabic science: Quran and Quran disciplines, Quran commentaries, tajwid (the art of reading Quran), Arabic grammar, rhetoric, lexicography, fiqh, dogmatics, al-sira, poetics, propaedeutics, hadith, logics, astronomy.Among Turkic materials, the most interesting one is the arabographic manuscript “Derbend-nameh” with texts, mainly on history, in the Kumyk language.The total number of manuscripts and old-printed books found and studied in 2017 is more than 300 units. They date from the 15th to the 19th centuries.In 2018, the nature and focus of archeographic research changed: the task was set to narrow the gap between field and traditional archaeography. In this regard, archeographic research in that year was directed, along with searching and collecting of material, mainly for research, preparation for publication and publication of manuscript collections – in particular, of two private manuscript collections of the Keleb region of the Shamil district of the Republic of Dagestan: the collection of Gitinmagomedov Usman-Hadji from the village of Hinda and the collection of Hasanov Karimula from Somoda village..
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Edwards, E. "Nigerian Collections in Pitt Rivers Museum Archives, University of Oxford." African Research & Documentation 55 (1991): 51–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00015892.
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Pitt Rivers Museum is one of the major anthropological museums in the world and as such has considerable object collections from Nigeria. Less known is its archive collection which contains a small but interesting collection of material relating to Nigeria. The Museum has been collecting archival material since its foundation in 1884 and the collections are still growing annually as more material is donated. At present the entire collection stands in the region of sixty manuscript collections of varying sizes and about 70,000 photographic images. The archive collections do not document specific objects in the museum collections (any material of this nature belongs with specific object records) but the broader historical and intellectual contexts which shaped anthropology in general and the Museum's collection in particular. The Nigerian material, although it is somewhat uneven, typifies this collecting policy and comprises both manuscripts and photographs.
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Parsons, Katelin. "The Library at Bræðratunga: Manuscript Ownership and Private Library-Building in Early Modern Iceland." Gripla 34 (2023): 241–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.33112/gripla.34.8.
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Library institutions did not exist in early modern Iceland, meaning that private ownership was central to the preservation of pre-modern manuscripts and literature. However, personal collections are poorly documented in comparison to the activities of manuscript collectors such as Árni Magnússon. This article examines the case study of Helga Magnúsdóttir (1623–1677) and book ownership at her home of Bræðratunga in South Iceland, concluding that Helga Magnúsdóttir engaged in library-building as a social strategy following the death of her husband, Hákon Gíslason (1614–1652). The inventory of the Bræðratunga estate from 1653 includes only four books, all printed. However, nine manuscripts are conclusively identified as having been at Bræðratunga at least briefly during the period from c. 1653 to 1677, and evidence for the presence of another five items is discussed. Examination of surviving volumes suggests that Helga’s goal was to participate in an active culture of sharing manuscript material across distances, rather than to accumulate a large stationary collection of printed books and codices for Bræðratunga. She thereby played an important but easily overlooked role in the survival of Old Norse-Icelandic literature in the early modern period. Of the manuscripts at Bræðratunga, at least two likely came from Helga’s childhood home of Munkaþverá in North Iceland, the former site of a Benedictine monastery. Her cousin Bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson of Skálholt (1605–1675) also gifted books to Helga and her family, and on his death she inherited half of his collection of Icelandic books and manuscripts, making her the owner of one of the most significant collections of Icelandic manuscripts in the country. The survival of books from Helga’s library was negatively impacted by the Fire of Copenhagen in 1728, the extinction of her family line in the eighteenth century as a long-term consequence of the 1707–1709 smallpox epidemic and collector Árni Magnússon’s antagonistic relationship with two of her children’s heirs. Árni’s relationship with Oddur Sigurðsson (1681–1741), Helga’s grandson and last living descendent, did eventually improve; an appendix includes a list of manuscripts that Oddur loaned to Árni and may have come from the library at Bræðratunga.
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McDaniel, Justin. "Illuminating Archives: Collectors and Collections in the History of Thai Manuscripts." Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies 2, no. 1 (2017): 3–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mns.2017.0002.
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Sachkova, G. S. "Private Libraries in Russia: A.S. Norov’ Library." Izvestiya of Saratov University. History. International Relations 11, no. 1 (2011): 34–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/1819-4907-2011-11-1-34-39.
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Private book collections – is an integral part of the cultural environment of the Russian educated society of the first half of the XIX century. The library of an outstanding state and political figure, a scholar, an ardent bibliophile A.S. Norov is a book treasury. In the article the process of the collecting his two libraries is considered. The article also considers the manuscripts and books of those libraries, discloses the reasons induced the owner of these magnificent libraries to sell them. It is noted that A.S. Pushkin used A.S. Norov’s library during his work on «The History of Pugachev». A collection of manuscripts by Norov, together with other private collections of the XIX century, made the manuscript stock of Russian state library.
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Alexandrova, N. V. "Коллекция документов Ивана Абрамовича Морозова в отделе рукописей Государственного музея изобразительных искусств им. А.С. Пушкина." Iskusstvo Evrazii [The Art of Eurasia], no. 1(20) (March 31, 2021): 90–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.46748/arteuras.2021.01.007.
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The famous collections of new art works of the late 19th – early 20th centuries of the great collectors S.I. Shchukin and I.A. Morozov have a pronounced individual character. The documentary materials of these collectors, stored in the Department of manuscripts of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, are also distinct. The preservation, number and typology of documents reflect not only the personality and fate of the collectors, but also the history of the country. The first special address to the history of formation and the composition of I.A. Morozov's documents collection complements the collector's way and the fate of his collection. Leaving practically no personal and family documents, I.A. Morozov carefully handed over business papers to the museum curators, confirming the immaculate provenance of his collection. Drawing attention to personal provenance funds brings to the fore the importance of their acquisition and preservation. Знаменитые собрания произведений нового искусства конца XIX – начала XX века великих коллекционеров С.И. Щукина и И.А. Морозова носят ярко выраженный индивидуальный характер. Также непохожи и документальные материалы этих собирателей, хранящиеся в отделе рукописей Государственного музея изобразительных искусств им. А.С. Пушкина. Сохранность, численность и типология документов отражают не только личность и судьбу коллекционеров, но и историю страны. Первое специальное обращение к истории формирования и составу коллекции документов И.А. Морозова дополняет коллекционерский путь собирателя и судьбу его коллекции. Не оставив практически никаких личных и семейных документов, И.А. Морозов бережно передал музейным хранителям деловые бумаги, подтверждающие безупречный провенанс его коллекции. Привлечение внимания к фондам личного происхождения актуализирует важность их комплектования и сохранения.
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Six, Veronika. "Aufstockung des äthiopischen Handschriftenbestandes zweier deutscher Bibliotheken." Aethiopica 12 (April 7, 2012): 172–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.15460/aethiopica.12.1.101.
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Two German libraries which hold collections of Oriental manuscripts again have enlarged their stock of Ethiopian manuscripts. The Berlin State Library: there is a dated Sǝnkǝssar representing the still living manuscript tradition. Without concrete dating (which exists) a cataloguer surely might come to a wrong judgment concerning the date of writing the manuscript, but the date is clear: 20th cent. The second manuscript is a gift from Professor Dr. Walter W. Müller (Marburg): the unbound parchment leaves contain chronicles in Amharic concerning the history of Ethiopia and Šäwa written in the second half of the 19th cent. Then a collection of Hymns (Sälam), a Psalter and a small manuscript containing a text which is used as protection of the soul either during funeral rites or – as it is the case here – as a separate text serving the daily protection of a human being. The second library: the University Library Tübingen with a long tradition of collecting Oriental and Ethiopic manuscripts as well, now has acquired two manuscripts: a dated Mäzmurä Dawit of the second half of the 19th cent. which also represents the manuscript tradition at its best and a parchment scroll containing prayers for protecting a female person, but in which the originally restricted purpose has been changed into a general protective function.
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Chambert-Protat, Pierre. "A Seventeenth-Century Treasure Hunter in the Rubble of a Ninth-Century Library." Fragmentology 1 (December 2018): 65–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.24446/41yi.
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Among the few major Carolingian libraries that are rather well preserved, Lyon’s Cathedral Chapter Library presents a specific challenge: its fragmentation and dispersion have long hindered studies on its constituent manuscripts, because they were scattered across distant libraries. Nowadays, digitization lifts the greater part of the material obstacles, and virtual reconstructions makes it possible to study damaged manuscripts almost as if their scattered fragments were still preserved together. While accompanying a few such reconstructions on display on Fragmentarium, this paper intends to highlight the importance of an individual XVIIth century collector, Étienne Baluze, in the salvaging of fragments from the Lyon library. Through this example is shown how the very preservation status of fragments within larger ensembles can reveal information on the librarians, collectors, collections, and libraries to whom they belonged, and their own history.
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Evizariza, Evizariza, and Iik Idayanti. "PENDATAAN DAN DIGITALISASI NASKAH KUNO MELAYU DI KABUPATEN KAMPAR." Jurnal Ilmu Budaya 14, no. 1 (September 29, 2017): 29–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.31849/jib.v14i1.1134.
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Manuscript is a cultural heritage of ancestors in the past. In the manuscripts there are many sources of information and knowledge of the community that were developing at that time. One of which was Malay manuscripts. Currently, the existence of Malay manuscripts is widely spread and recorded in various regions, both inside and outside the country. However, there are still many Malay manuscripts that are still owned by individuals, becoming private collections, such as Malay manuscripts in the Kampar region. These manuscripts are still unrecorded and in vulnerable conditions with damage and even lost or sold. Judging from these realities, actions are needed to save the manuscripts, such as collecting and digitalizating. By so, eventhough saving the manuscripts physically is hard, but we can get the contents of the text. Thus, the research on the physical obejct will be studied using a codicological approach, and the text content will be analyzed philologically.
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Azizah, Faras Puji. "Illumination on the Bamboo Manuscript "Karang Mindu" Collection of Bakhtiar Hanif Kerinci." Journal of Philology and Historical Review 1, no. 1 (June 5, 2023): 17–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.61540/jphr.v1i1.37.
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The Karang Mindu manuscript is one of the ancient manuscripts originating from Kerinci, one of the collections of Bakhtiar Hanif, which we know that these ancient manuscripts are very important to protect, because they are relics of our ancestors that have high historical value. Not only that, from ancient manuscripts we can find out about the culture of the past about the illumination on the bamboo manuscript "Karang Mindu" collection of Bakhtiar Hanif Kerinci. The purpose of this article is to find out about the manuscript. Overall, the method used in this research is to use a qualitative method using a literature study, by collecting the main source from the EAP Library with documentation number EAP 117/63/1/15, besides that the author also collects sources from various previous studies, books, articles, journals, which are related to the research theme. The result of this research is the content of the manuscript text Karang Mindu explains about a poet whose love is unrequited, besides that there are also interesting illuminations such as Pucuk Rebung, and Keluk Paku. The manuscript motive also describes the life of ancient people who always utilized nature for their needs. Therefore, studying the illuminations in the manuscript helps to strengthen and maintain Kerinci's cultural heritage or local wisdom.
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Gwara, Scott. "Collections, Compilations, and Convolutes of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in North America before ca. 1900." Fragmentology, no. 3 (December 2020): 73–139. http://dx.doi.org/10.24446/dlll.
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Using evidence drawn from S. de Ricci and W. J. Wilson’s Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, American auction records, private library catalogues, public exhibition catalogues, and manuscript fragments surviving in American institutional libraries, this article documents nineteenth-century collections of medieval and Renaissance manuscript fragments in North America before ca. 1900. Surprisingly few fragments can be identified, and most of the private collections have disappeared. The manuscript constituents are found in multiple private libraries, two universities (New York University and Cornell University), and one Learned Society (Massachusetts Historical Society). The fragment collections reflect the collecting genres documented in England in the same period, including albums of discrete fragments, grangerized books, and individual miniatures or “cuttings” (sometimes framed). A distinction is drawn between undecorated text fragments and illuminated ones, explained by aesthetic and scholarly collecting motivations. An interest in text fragments, often from binding waste, can be documented from the 1880s.
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Alhamami, Ahmad Alfan Rizka. "Paheman Radyapustaka sebagai Skriptorium." Manuskripta 10, no. 2 (December 24, 2020): 249. http://dx.doi.org/10.33656/manuskripta.v10i2.167.
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Since its establishment on October 28, 1890, Paheman Radyapustaka has only been known for its function as a museum. The main activity of Paheman Radyapustaka is as a place for writing, copying, and collecting Surakarta manuscripts, so that Paheman Radyapustaka deserves to be called a Scriptorium. This paper aims to reveal the production activities of the Paheman Radyapustaka scriptorium which includes the writers / copyists, the writing results, and the genre. The method in this paper is a method of codicological studies that includes history, writers / copyists, and scriptorium collections. The results of the search through the archives and manuscript colophon of the Paheman Radyapustaka scriptorium were that of the 400 manuscripts in his collection, there were 82 manuscripts written by the Scripts of the Scriptures. The scribes of the Paheman Radyapustaka Scriptorium were Wirapustaka, Sastrasayana, Dayapangreka, Karyarujita and the residents. The genres written by the scribes of the Paheman Radyapustaka scriptorium are macapat and gancaran.
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Alhamami, Ahmad Alfan Rizka. "Paheman Radyapustaka sebagai Skriptorium." Manuskripta 10, no. 2 (December 24, 2020): 249. http://dx.doi.org/10.33656/manuskripta.v10i2.167.
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Since its establishment on October 28, 1890, Paheman Radyapustaka has only been known for its function as a museum. The main activity of Paheman Radyapustaka is as a place for writing, copying, and collecting Surakarta manuscripts, so that Paheman Radyapustaka deserves to be called a Scriptorium. This paper aims to reveal the production activities of the Paheman Radyapustaka scriptorium which includes the writers / copyists, the writing results, and the genre. The method in this paper is a method of codicological studies that includes history, writers / copyists, and scriptorium collections. The results of the search through the archives and manuscript colophon of the Paheman Radyapustaka scriptorium were that of the 400 manuscripts in his collection, there were 82 manuscripts written by the Scripts of the Scriptures. The scribes of the Paheman Radyapustaka Scriptorium were Wirapustaka, Sastrasayana, Dayapangreka, Karyarujita and the residents. The genres written by the scribes of the Paheman Radyapustaka scriptorium are macapat and gancaran.
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Oertel, Kristen T., Renee Harvey, and Diana Folsom. "From Parchment to Podcast: The Collaborative Process of Building and Unlocking an Archive." Anglia 138, no. 3 (September 15, 2020): 468–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ang-2020-0039.
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AbstractThis project began with a deceptively simple question: “Were there runaway slaves in Indian Territory in the 1830 s and 40s?” The answer was complicated and relied upon the combined expertise of historians, archivists, curators, and collectors. This article describes how collaborative research, performed at the Helmerich Center for American Research at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, uncovered a long-neglected piece of history in Indian Territory. The collections, which contain diverse sources such as manuscripts written on parchment, archaeological artefacts, original art, and more recently, digitised documents, images, and videos, shape the way scholars answer their questions. Although scholarly research may appear to be an independent endeavour – the professor mining sources at a desk or writing alone on a computer – the reality, especially in the twenty-first century, is much different. What shows up on the page and, now, what results in a podcast, is rooted in a shared journey, beginning with an archivist or curator collecting and cataloguing materials and ending in cyberspace.
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Navirathan, Gayathiri, and Oshanithi Sivarasa. "Identifying Challenges and Barriers in Collecting, Documenting and Digitizing Palm Leaf Manuscripts in Eastern Sri Lanka." Shanlax International Journal of Arts, Science and Humanities 8, no. 4 (April 1, 2021): 13–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/sijash.v8i4.3798.
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The palm leaf manuscripts are the sources of the cultural heritage of our ancestors. It is a very crucial part of the librarians or archivists or curators to conserve and preserve them from passing the information and knowledge to successive generations. Palm leaf manuscripts indicate previous documentary heritage and conservation, preservation and made them available shortly is a challenging and demanding task at present. Sri Lanka has a rich history of documentary heritage comprised of valuable palm-leaf collections. In eastern Sri Lanka, the palm leaf manuscripts are spread everywhere as personal holdings.There are many countries all over the world that put much effort into preserving them for the future. One of the potent methods of preserving those endangered documents like manuscripts is digitization. At this point, there is an urgent need to find the suitability of preserving those palm leaf manuscripts in the facets of digitization techniques.As the palm leaf manuscripts are shown as endangered through ages while tackling them to collecting and documenting them, several challenges were faced. Therefore identifying the solutions to overcome those challenges and barriers is important to further the documentation and digitization process of palm leaf manuscripts. The study aims to find the challenges and barriers in collecting, documenting and digitizing those palm leaf collections in eastern Sri Lanka.
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Raine, Henry. "From Here to Ephemerality: Fugitive Sources in Libraries, Archives, and Museums: The 48th Annual RBMS Preconference." RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 9, no. 1 (March 1, 2008): 14–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rbm.9.1.293.
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For too long, institutions have treated their collections of ephemera as impediments rather than assets. They considered that ephemera had intrinsically less research value than books or manuscripts, that it was difficult to store and access, and that it often came in collections so large and unwieldy that they would never be adequately cataloged or inventoried. Vast troves of broadsides, handbills, and circulars languished unsorted in boxes, and the existence of these collections was seldom advertised to potential researchers, and sometimes carefully hidden from them. And yet some scholars took strong interest in these types of materials, some collectors and ...
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Kasinec, Edward. "Serge Diaghilev’s Last Passion—The Book." Experiment 17, no. 1 (2011): 375–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/221173011x612003.
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Abstract This article is based on fresh archival and manuscript material found in the Library of Congress and the Harvard College Library. The author discusses the last two years in Diaghilev’s life and the beginnings of his obsessive collecting of Russian (and Rossica) rare books and manuscripts. More specifically the article treats the dealers and other sources of Diaghilev’s acquisitions, the nature of what he acquired, and the fate of his collections after his untimely passing in August, 1929.
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Velikodnaya, Irina L. "Collection of Autographs." Bibliotekovedenie [Library and Information Science (Russia)] 1, no. 1 (February 28, 2016): 55–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/0869-608x-2016-1-1-55-59.
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The review considers two new editions, connected by the theme of autographs, - “The Bibliophile Garland to Anna Akhmatova. To the 125th Birth Anniversary: the Autographs in the Collection of M. Seslavinsky” and “The Art of Autograph. Inscriptions of Writers and Artists in the Private Collections of Russian Bibliophiles”, published in 2014-2015. Description and identification of the autograph, its introduction into scientific use, as well as its study are relevant problems of today, as the accumulated handwritten material of this kind requires samples of cataloguing. The Russian collectors propose to comprehend such material accumulated in private collections, publish previously unknown autographs, manuscripts, epistolary heritage of Russian poets, writers and artists. Peer-reviewed publications are required in the work of experts - literary critics, art historians, book historians, culturologists, students of specialized educational institutions, and all the interested in the history of the Russian culture.
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Matwijów, Maciej. "Manuscript Books: Collections of Political Life Materials from the Area of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Dating Back to the 17th and 18th Centuries in Libraries, Archives and Museums in Poland." Knygotyra 77 (December 30, 2021): 171–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/knygotyra.2021.77.92.
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The article discusses manuscript books – collections of public life materials created in the 17th and 18th centuries in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, now located in Poland. They were created mainly by nobles and by chancellery clerks and officials employed at magnates’ and state dignitaries’ courts as an expression of the interests of collectors or documentary and historiographical concerns, and sometimes also as support for public activity. They contained various materials related to conducting, documenting and recording public life. The present overview is based on an identification of copies and on the information contained in printed and online manuscript catalogues and inventories. The number of surviving manuscripts of that type can be hypothetically estimated at ca. 400–500 copies, with ca. 100 copies identified in Poland. Their largest collection is held in the Radvilos Archives, part of the Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw, with single copies scattered across different libraries and museums. The oldest ones date back to the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The greatest value should be attributed to several manuscripts originating from the Radvilos of Biržai community from the mid-17th century. Other valuable manuscripts include some made by common nobles, especially in the 17th century, as they often contain unique materials, unknown from elsewhere, as well as those created in the circles of the Sapiegos and Radvilos of Nyasvizh magnate families. Standing out among the latter are miscellanies created during the first three decades of the 18th century by Kazimierz Złotkowski, secretary of the Grand Chancellor of Lithuania Karolis Stanislovas Radvila. These books attest to the integration of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania’s nobility and magnates with other lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. They largely contain materials relating to public life of the whole Commonwealth, while often including materials relating to local issues.
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Iakerson, Shimon M. "Who was collecting Hebrew books in the capital of Russian Empire and why." Письменные памятники Востока 18, no. 1 (April 14, 2021): 74–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/wmo63141.
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By the beginning of the 20th century a unique collection of Hebrew manuscripts (more than 20000 units) and first printed books was formed in the capital of the Russian Empire. These books ended up in St.Petersburg as part of several private collections, such as the collection of a Protestant paleographer and Biblical scholar Konstantin von Tischendorf, of the Karaite leader Avraam Firkovich, of the Archimandrite Antonin Kapustin, of the Barons Gnzburg, of a First Guild merchant Moses Aryeh Leib Friedland and of an Orientalist Professor Daniel Chwolson. The history of these collections and the motives of the collecting activity of their owners are the subject of this article.
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Prescott, Christopher, and Josephine Munch Rasmussen. "Exploring the “Cozy Cabal of Academics, Dealers and Collectors” through the Schøyen Collection." Heritage 3, no. 1 (February 9, 2020): 68–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/heritage3010005.
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In the wake of the trade in ancient materials, several ethical and political issues arise that merit concern: the decimation of the cultural heritage of war-torn countries, proliferation of corruption, ideological connotations of orientalism, financial support of terrorism, and participation in networks involved in money laundering, weapon sales, human trafficking and drugs. Moreover, trafficking and trading also have a harmful effect on the fabric of academia itself. This study uses open sources to track the history of the private Schøyen Collection, and the researchers and public institutions that have worked with and supported the collector. Focussing on the public debates that evolved around the Buddhist manuscripts and other looted or illicitly obtained material from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, this article unravels strategies to whitewash Schøyen’s and his research groups’ activities. Numerous elements are familiar from the field of antiquities trafficking research and as such adds to the growing body of knowledge about illicit trade and collecting. A noteworthy element in the Schøyen case is Martin Schøyen and his partners’ appeal to digital dissemination to divorce collections from their problematic provenance and history and thus circumvent contemporary ethical standards. Like paper publications, digital presentations contribute to the marketing and price formation of illicit objects. The Norwegian state’s potential purchase of the entire Schøyen collection was promoted with the aid of digital dissemination of the collection hosted by public institutions. In the wake of the Schøyen case, it is evident that in spite of formal regulations to thwart antiquities trafficking, the continuation of the trade rests on the attitudes and practice of scholars and institutions.
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Jurić, Dorian. "Conveying Ćeif: Three Croatian Folklore and Folklife Writings on Bosniak Coffee Culture." FOLKLORICA - Journal of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association 23 (December 8, 2020): 1–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/folklorica.v23i.14968.
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This article presents three short passages describing coffee and coffeehouse culture among Bosnian and Herzegovinian Muslims in the late nineteenth century. These texts are drawn from manuscripts collected by lay, Croatian folklore and folklife collectors who submitted them to two early collecting projects in Zagreb. The pieces are translated here for the first time into English and placed into historical and cultural context regarding the history of coffee culture in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the wider Ottoman Empire as well as the politics of folklore collection at the time. By using the Pan-Ottoman concept of ćeif as a theoretical lens, I argue that these early folklorists produced impressive folklife accounts of Bosniak foodways, but that these depictions inevitably enfolded both genuine interest and negative by-products of the wider politics of their era.
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Imbert, Isabelle. "Patronage and Productions of Paintings and Albums in 18th-Century Awadh." Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 12, no. 2 (April 30, 2021): 174–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1878464x-01102002.
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Abstract During the 18th century, Faizābād and Lucknow became strategic centres of painting production in Northern India. Encouraged by the patronage of European collectors, but most probably by unnamed Indian patrons as well, the region experienced an intense period marked by the large number of albums and paintings in circulation. Based on the in-depth analysis of a selection of albums, paintings, and manuscripts, this article aims to highlight the evolution of compilation practices and painting productions. Full-page flower paintings, in particular, became increasingly popular in muraqqaʿ, to the point where calligraphic panels were completely replaced by colourful plants. Floral designs also appear in the margins, and the repetition of motives and patterns on several pages of different dimensions revealed an extensive commercialization based on a standardized production. In addition, the collections of European collectors such as Antoine-Louis Polier and Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gentil bear the traces of commercial transactions between European and Indian collectors, as well as prices and possession marks. Together with their writings, correspondences, and memoirs, they bring new information on previously unknown Indian collectors, and more generally on the dynamism of the 18th-century book market.
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Gianni, Celeste. "Paul Sbath’s Manuscript Library." Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 13, no. 4 (September 26, 2022): 381–420. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1878464x-01303001.
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Abstract This article concerns the manuscript collection of the Syrian Catholic priest Paul Sbath (Aleppo, 1887–1945), who is regarded by some as one of the twentieth century’s most controversial collectors. This is primarily due to the mysterious circumstances under which he obtained and consolidated his collection of 1,325 manuscripts, part of which he sold to the Vatican Library in 1927. Through a close study of the negotiations around the acquisition of Sbath’s manuscripts by the Vatican, this article explores the different, and sometimes conflicting, conceptualizations of a manuscript library in the early post-Ottoman period. Physically displaced following the historical events that were drastically transforming the Middle East in the early 20th century, Sbath’s collection has been a moving library—during his life and after—from Aleppo to Jerusalem, then from Cairo to the Vatican, and back to Aleppo. Using previously unresearched archival sources at the Vatican, this article explores how Sbath’s goal was to create a modern Western waqf (endowment) of books: a hybrid library reflecting the continuation of the Middle Eastern manuscript tradition in dialogue with the Western perception of a manuscript library, as well as representing Sbath’s identity as an Arab Catholic priest living through the contemporary challenges of war, plague, displacement, and migration in the Middle East in the interwar period.
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Pascal, A. D. "Cyrillic writing system: from Slavic to Romanian." Proceedings of SPSTL SB RAS, no. 3 (September 17, 2020): 5–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.20913/2618-7515-2020-3-5-10.
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The article is devoted to Cyrillic handwritten books of the XIII–XIX centuries, created in the Romanian principalities, and stored today in the manuscript collections of the Russian State Library. The uniqueness of the writing system, functioning in the principalities (Wallachia, Moldavia, Transylvania) since their political formation, is that it was a Cyrillic script based on the old Slavic language with a predominant Roman-speaking population. In course of the writing system’ development in the principalities, there was a transition from the Slavic font to the Latin one; the intermediate result of this transition was the creation of monuments written in Romanian language with Cyrillic script. The main stages of this process are considered by reference to the specific examples of unique handwritten books and their fragments that have become objects for collecting by scientists, antiquaries, and Old Believers, whose book collections have formed the basis of the handwritten collections of the Russian State Library. They are the oldest Cyrillic manuscripts and their fragments dated to the XII–XIV centuries, found on the territory of Romania, Slavic manuscripts, produced mainly in monasteries of principalities in the XV–XVII centuries, translations of individual words into the Romanian language in the rewritten Slavic texts in the XVI century; the glosses and comments in Romanian on the margins of Slavic manuscripts in the XVI–XVIII centuries; numerous notes in the Romanian language in the manuscripts of the XVI–XVIII centuries, made by owners and readers; translations of literary monuments, including bilingual (Slavic–Romanian) and trilingual (Slavic–Latin–Romanian) versions in the XVI–XVIII centuries; Romanian–Slavic and Slavic–Romanian dictionaries in the XVII–XVIII centuries; letters and their copies in the Romanian language (sureties) in the XVI–XIX centuries. The article is an intermediate outcome of studying and describing Cyrillic Romanian handwritten books in the collections of the Russian State Library, which will result in the publication of a hard–copy catalog.
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Rukhliadev, Dmitriy. "Языковые материалы Фонда Центральной Азии и Сибири Отдела рукописей и документов Института восточных рукописей РАН." Ural-Altaic Studies 47, no. 4 (December 2022): 100–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.37892/2500-2902-2022-47-4-100-116.
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For more than 100 years, the Department of Manuscripts and Documents of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (formerly the Asiatic Museum, the St. Petersburg branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences) has been collecting materials on linguistic monuments of Central Asia and Siberia (mainly Turkic). However, there was no description and cataloguing of these materials. Since January 2010, the author of the present article has carried out an inventory and identification of these materials. As a result of this work, it was found that the collection contains a large number of unique linguistic materials, mainly rubbings of Turkic runic inscriptions, which significantly expand the possibilities of linguistic and historical study of the written heritage of the ancient Turks. The rubbings are copies of texts of both well-known and unknown monuments, as well as inscriptions that were considered lost. In the course of work with the collection, materials stored in the State Hermitage Museum, the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), the Russian Museum of Ethnography, the St. Petersburg branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Archives of the Orientalists of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the RAS were involved. In parallel, work was carried out on the conservation of storage units. Some materials were included from other collections.
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Strekopytov, Stanislav. "John Hunter's Directions for preserving animals." Archives of Natural History 45, no. 2 (October 2018): 335–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2018.0524.
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Directions for preserving animals, an undated anonymous pamphlet, privately published by the famous anatomist John Hunter (1728–1793), has not been a subject of a dedicated study so far in spite of its importance as a set of instructions influencing zoological collecting throughout the nineteenth century. A donation entry in the 1788 edition of Regulations and laws of the Lyceum Medicum Londinense allowed assigning 1788 as the most probable publication year of Hunter's pamphlet. The bibliographic analysis of Hunter's private press publications shows that the pamphlet was likely to have been produced by the same press. The pamphlet was reprinted in an amended form in 1809, and further amendments were done for the 1826 and 1835 editions published by the Royal College of Surgeons in London. In spite of Richard Owen (1804–1892) claiming a (co-)authorship of the 1835 edition, there is no evidence that his role exceeded minor editorial corrections. Since Owen made a reference in his correspondence to Hunter's manuscript instructions that he supposedly used in the preparation of the 1835 edition, an attempt was made to trace published and unpublished manuscript instructions for zoological collecting that could be attributed to Hunter. Manuscripts of the Society for Promoting Natural History preserved at the Linnean Society of London showed involvement of John Hunter and Everard Home (1756–1832) in the preparation of a hitherto undescribed comprehensive set of instructions for natural history collectors that was planned to be published by the Society.
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Browar, Lisa, and Marvin J. Taylor. "EDITORS' NOTE." RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 1, no. 1 (March 1, 2000): 11–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rbm.1.1.169.
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When we assumed the editorship of this professional journal we asked each other, “what's so special about special collections?” For that matter, “who cares about the rare books, manuscripts, and other artifacts that fall under the rubric of ‘cultural heritage’?” We had a hunch that these seemingly disingenuous questions, when put to a cross-section of scholars, students, booksellers, archivists, collectors, artists, authors, curators, publishers, photographers, filmmakers, performance artists and, of course, librarians, would provoke thoughtful anecdotes, lively discourse, and passionate disputation. We were not wrong. The responses we received yield evidence of a broad constituency. Despite differing approaches to cultural . . .
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Yampolskaya, Natalia V. "An Oirat Fragment of the Śatasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sutra in the Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts." Письменные памятники Востока 20, no. 2 (August 18, 2023): 26–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.55512/wmo323098.
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The Mongolian collection of IOM RAS preserves one folio of a manuscript in Clear Script that contains the Oirat translation of the Śatasāhasrikā Prajāpāramitā Sutra. Before 2023, the folio was stored among mixed manuscript fragments that were delivered to the Imperial Academy of Sciences in the 18th c. This fact, along with the characteristics of its paper and ductus, allows to conjecture that the manuscript was produced in the 18th c. The left and right margins of the folio are neatly cut off, which suggests that the manuscript was handled by collectors in the same period (similar traces were left on other Tibetan and Mongolian pothi manuscripts that were delivered to Russia and Europe in the 18th c.). The folio preserved at IOM RAS is the only specimen of the Oirat translation of the Śatasāhasrikā described today. The translation style is similar to that of the Oirat Zaya Pandita (15991662), although his authorship remains to be confirmed. In the paper, the facsimile of the folio is presented along with the transliteration of the Oirat text (in collation with the Tibetan source), and its translation into Russian.
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Di Benedetto, Claudio. "The Uffizi Library: a collection that documents collections." Art Libraries Journal 35, no. 2 (2010): 4–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200016321.
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The Biblioteca degli Uffizi acts as a documentary ‘black box’ for all the notable collecting that has taken place in Florence during the past 500 years. The Library’s collections stretch from the autograph 22-year diary of the 15th-century painter Neri di Bicci and the different editions of Vasari’s Lives of the painters, through the inventories and lists of objects acquired and held successively by the Medici, the House of Hapsburg-Lorraine and the new Italian united kingdom, and to all the memoirs and plans and catalogues of the directors and ‘royal antiquarians’ of the Uffizi Gallery. In addition it contains major works on art history, artists, public and private art collections, exhibitions and many related topics. The Library holds 77,000 printed books and more than 440 manuscripts; its catalogue is shared with the IRIS consortium of art history and humanities libraries and contributes to artlibraries.net through this shared bibliographic database. Several digitisation projects have already been completed or are currently in progress.
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Putra, Rio Mahesa, and Diemas Arya Komara. "Peran Perpustakaan Provinsi Kalimantan Barat sebagai Sumber Belajar dalam Melestarikan Naskah Kuno." Inovasi Kurikulum 19, no. 1 (February 19, 2022): 99–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.17509/jik.v19i2.43918.
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Perpustakaan merupakan suatu lembaga yang tidak terbatas hanya sebagai tempat koleksi tersimpan. Perpustakaan sendiri nyatanya lebih dari itu, secara keilmuan perpustakaan merupakan suatu tempat di mana terdapat koleksi yang tentunya berisi informasi cetak atau non cetak, pustakawan sebagai pengelola perpustakaan, dan pemustaka sebagai pengunjung atau pelanggan dari perpustakaan. Perpustakaan Provinsi Kalimantan Barat memiliki koleksi Naskah Kuno yang dapat dimanfaatkan sebagai sumber belajar. Penelitian ini berfokus pada peranan perpustakaan dalam melestarikan koleksi nasional dan naskah kuno yang berperan dalam menghimpun, menyimpan, melestarikan, dan mendayagunakan terbitan dari daerah Provinsi Kalimantan Barat. Tujuan dari penelitian ini untuk mengetahui seberapa penting dan apa saja peran perpustakaan dalam menjaga, menghimpun, merawat koleksi nasional dan naskah kuno. Metode yang digunakan adalah metode deskriptif, Pengumpulan data dilakukan menggunakan studi literatur menggunakan beberapa jurnal dan artikel yang berkaitan dengan peran perpustakaan dalam menjaga koleksi nasional dan naskah kuno. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan peraturan pemerintah perpustakaan sangat penting dalam menjaga, dan menyimpan sebagaimana fungsi deposit dalam menjaga dan melestarikan koleksi Nasional dan Naskah kuno. Perpustakaan merupakan pusat layanan informasi yang menyediakan berbagai sumber ilmu pengetahuan, penelitian, rekreasi, dan pelestarian koleksi nasional dan naskah kuno, sebagaimana yang diatur dalam perda Provinsi Kalimantan Barat Nomor 4 tahun 2018 tentang perpustakaan pada Bab v.Kata Kunci: Naskah Kuno; Sumber Belajar, Peraturan Perpustakaan AbstractThe library is an institution that is not limited only as a place for collections to be stored. The library itself is in fact more than that, scientifically the library is a place where there are collections which of course contain printed or non-printed information, librarians as library managers, and users as visitors or customers of the library. The West Kalimantan Provincial Library has a collection of Ancient Manuscripts that can be used as a learning resource. This study focuses on the role of libraries in preserving national collections and ancient manuscripts that play a role in collecting, storing, preserving, and utilizing publications from the province of West Kalimantan. The purpose of this research is to find out how important and what are the roles of libraries in maintaining, compiling, maintaining national collections and ancient manuscripts. The method used is a descriptive method. Data collection is narrative review by using several journals and articles related to the role of libraries in maintaining national collections and ancient manuscripts. The results of the study show that the role of the library is very important in maintaining, and storing as a 'deposit' function in maintaining and preserving the National collection and ancient manuscripts. The library is an information service center that provides various sources of knowledge, research, recreation, and preservation of national collections and ancient manuscripts, as regulated in the West Kalimantan Provincial regulation Number 4 of 2018 concerning libraries in Chapter v.
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Knights, Francis. "The transmission of motets within the Paston manuscripts, c.1610." Muzikologija, no. 27 (2019): 137–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/muz1927137k.
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The creation and expansion of commercial music printing from around 1500 has normally led to modern editors assigning textual primacy to published copies of music from the period in preference to any equivalent manuscript copies. However, some groups of manuscript sources, such as the Paston collection, from late 16th and early 17th century England, can shed a different light on contemporary music print culture and its relationship to manuscript copying. Edward Paston?s huge private music library, now dispersed in collections in the UK and US, contains many multiple versions of works he already access to in print form, and the choices he or his copyists made with regard to three particular six-voice Latin motets, Byrd?s Memento homo, Ferrabosco?s In monte Oliveti, and Vaet?s Salve Regina, are examined here, and placed within with their collecting context and likely use.
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Gunasingam, S. "Catalogue of Tamil manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 122, no. 2 (April 1990): 359–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0035869x00108597.
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Since the time South Asia, together with other Asian and African countries, became an integral part of the British Empire, the significance of manuscripts, published works and other artefacts, relating to those regions has stimulated continued appreciation in the United Kingdom, albeit with varying degrees of interest. It is interesting to note that the factors which have contributed in one way or another to the collecting of South Asian I material for British institutions vary in their nature, and thus illuminate the attitudes of different periods. During the entire nineteenth century, the collectors were primarily administrators; for most of the first half of the twentieth century, it was the interest and the needs of British universities that led to the accumulation of substantial holdings in many academic or specialist libraries.
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Leonov, Valerij P. "Library Cape town (Following the Colloquium of the International Association of Bibliophiles)." Bibliotekovedenie [Library and Information Science (Russia)], no. 3 (June 28, 2015): 89–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/0869-608x-2015-0-3-89-94.
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International Association of Bibliophiles (IAB), established in 1961 in Paris, brings together librarians, publishers, collectors of rare books, conservators, conservation specialists, bookbinders, businessmen, lawyers, and diplomats. The Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences (BAN) is the Member of the IAB since 1994. BAN became the organizer of the Colloquium in St. Petersburg. Meetings of bibliophiles are held annually in different countries. The article presents the activities of the Colloquium of bibliophiles in Cape town (South Africa) in 2002. There are described the exhibitions of books, manuscripts and documents from the collections of the Library of Center of Books in Cape town, the National Library of South Africa, Library of the University of Cape town, University of Stellenbosch, library of the English and South African Politician Cecil John Rhodes and private collections. Exhibition materials reflect the history of African book culture.
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Rasmussen, Josephine Munch, and Årstein Justnes. "Tales of saviours and iconoclasts. On the provenance of "the Dead Sea Scrolls of Buddhism"." Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia 32, no. 18 N.S. (September 13, 2021): 125–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/acta.9023.
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Academic research on newly discovered ancient Buddhist manuscripts is largely based on objects that come from the antiquities market and to a much lesser degree on objects coming from documented and controlled archaeological excavations. Despite their being unprovenanced, collectors and scholars often present such objects with narratives mimicking provenance. The use of the label "Dead Sea Scrolls" attached to archaeological material without connections to Judaism or early Christianity is a prevalent example of this scholarly praxis. In this article, we deconstruct provenance narratives associated with the undocumented Buddhist manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection and discuss their implications for research on these manuscripts and beyond. On cover:ANNIBALE CARRACCI (BOLOGNA 1560 - ROME 1609), An Allegory of Truth and Time c. 1584-1585.Oil on canvas | 130,0 x 169,6 cm. (support, canvas/panel/str external) | RCIN 404770Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2021.
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Starmer, Mary Ellen, Sara Hyder McGough, and Aimée Leverette. "RARE CONDITION: PRESERVATION ASSESSMENT FOR RARE BOOK COLLECTIONS." RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 6, no. 2 (September 1, 2005): 91–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rbm.6.2.247.
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It is not uncommon for a university to house its special collections library in the “old” library building. The character of the architecture and the connection with the university’s past often fit with the mission of collecting and preserving rare books, manuscripts, and university archives. A beautiful old library can inspire both librarians and researchers. However, it also can be the downfall of the very collections we treasure. Many older libraries now housing rare and valuable special collections materials have out-of-date and inadequate environmental control systems, if they have any at all. The resulting environmental conditions, particularly wide fluctuations in . . .
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Vaskanova, Nadezhda A., and Ananii G. Ivanov. "MATERIALS ON TRADITIONAL EMBROIDERY OF THE MARI PEOPLE IN THE HANDWRITTEN HERITAGE OF T.E. EVSEEV." Vestnik Chuvashskogo universiteta, no. 3 (September 29, 2023): 22–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.47026/1810-1909-2023-3-22-28.
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Timofey Evseevich Evseev (Evsevyev) is a well-known Mari ethnographer-collector, local historian, folklorist, who made a significant contribution to preserve and study the Mari traditional culture in the first third of the twentieth century. The museum collections that he collected on the material and spiritual culture of the Mari are the most valuable source for studying the ethnography and history of the Mari Region.
The purpose of the study is to analyze the collection of manuscripts by T.E. Evseev on Mari traditional embroidery, collected during collecting and field activities in the 1905–1930s.
Materials and methods. The research uses the methods of archival documents and museum accounting documentation analysis, the historical-comparative, historical-typological and quantitative methods. The handwritten documents of T.E. Evseev have been preserved in the fund of the National Museum of the Republic of Mari El named after T. Evseev, giving the opportunity to recreate the history of completing the museum with samples of Mari traditional embroidery in the first third of the XX century.
Study results. The article provides valuable information about the collecting and field work performed by Timofey Evseevich Evseev during his pedagogical and museum activities. The main stages in his ethnographic surveys of Mari villages in order to collect handwritten and tangible material on Mari traditional embroidery are identified. The role of domestic and foreign ethnologists and museum specialists in forming the ethnographic collections of the Mari Regional Museum on the topic of embroidery is noted. On the basis of preserved manuscripts, accounting and clerical documents of T.E. Evseev, the article presents a quantitative analysis of museum collections of the first third of the XX century; the types of collected samples of traditional embroidery among various ethnoterritorial groups of meadow Mari are characterized.
Conclusions. Materials on Mari traditional embroidery presented in the handwritten heritage of T.E. Evseev are the most valuable source for studying the development of traditional embroidery among various ethnoterritorial groups of the Mari and can be used to create exposition and exhibition spaces, to prepare museum catalogues and to develop museum and educational programs on the history and ethnography of the Mari people.
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White, James. "Mamlūk Poetry, Ottoman Readers, and an Enlightenment Collector." Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 9, no. 2-3 (October 25, 2018): 272–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1878464x-00902011.
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AbstractOne kind of reader’s note that has received minimal attention in scholarship to date is the poem. This article suggests that the verses added by readers to manuscripts can reveal information concerning the social and intellectual history of reading communities, the history of collecting, and the reception of literary works. I examine an appendix of unattributed poems that were added by a group of readers to a holograph copy of Ibn Sūdūn al-Bashbughāwī’s (d. 868/1464) Nuzha (Bodleian Library MS. Sale 13), most probably in northern Syria in the seventeenth century. I identify the poems and their authors, study their manipulation in the Sale manuscript, and offer some initial conclusions as to what they can tell us about the social and intellectual contexts in which MS. Sale 13 was stored before it came to England.
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Kelly, Mike. "INTRODUCTION." RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 6, no. 1 (March 1, 2005): 10–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rbm.6.1.237.
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The 45th Annual Preconference of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries was titled “Ebb & Flow: The Migration of Collections to American Libraries.” From June 21–June 24, 2004, on the campus of Yale University, speakers addressed a variety of topics around this theme. Plenary speakers addressed the migration of books to North America during the colonial period, the development of university library collections in the nineteenth century, the epic collecting of J. Pierpont Morgan, and the post-World War II antiquarian book trade. Alice Prochaska, Yale University librarian, opened the conference with . . .
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MacNeil, Heather. "Tacit Narratives in the Manuscript Collections of Matthew Parker and Robert Cotton." Archivaria, no. 96 (December 6, 2023): 36–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1108083ar.
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Over the past two decades, the history of early modern archives has been a topic of considerable interest among historians, and their research has drawn attention to the complex motives and commitments that inspired individuals, communities, and institutions to create, collect, preserve, and use archives in the early modern period. Their research also offers insights into what Eric Ketelaar has called the “tacit narratives of power and knowledge” woven into the formation, preservation, and use of archives and opens up new avenues for exploring the social history of archives. The English Protestant Reformation has provided the backdrop for some of this work, highlighting the ways in which post-Reformation libraries functioned as “polemical weapons” in political and religious struggles to control the historical narrative about the roots of the Reformation. The libraries built by the antiquarian collectors Matthew Parker and Robert Cotton in the 16th and 17th centuries furnish useful examples of the kinds of tacit narratives embedded in the selection, preservation, and use of post-Reformation manuscript collections. This article draws on the research undertaken by early modern historians into the collecting and compiling practices underpinning the formation and use of the Parker and Cotton manuscript collections to demonstrate how their work is helping to illuminate the tacit narratives embedded in early modern archives as well as broadening and deepening the social history of archives.
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Glover, Brian. "The Boswell Papers (1927–2021) and the Mediated Meaning of Place." CounterText 8, no. 2 (August 2022): 283–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/count.2022.0271.
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In 1927, the American collector Lt-Col. Ralph Heyward Isham arrived in New York with what he then thought was the entirety of the James Boswell Papers, which had been presumed lost by scholars since Boswell's death in 1795. Soon, Isham began the process of publishing them in a private-press edition limited to 570 sets, as Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle in the Collection of Lt-Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham. This essay explain the complicated beliefs about place, communication, and the meaning of paper that inhere in that seemingly simple title, arguing that the pursuit of manuscripts in a print culture represented an attempt to bring the unmappable world into the defined limits of the collector's home – an effort not at all unlike the big-game hunting for which Isham was also well known. This effort, the essay argues, has become impossible to conceptualise in a world of digital collecting.
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Rogatchevskaia, Ekaterina. "“A Beautiful, Tremendous Russian Book, and Other Things Too”." Canadian-American Slavic Studies 51, no. 2-3 (2017): 376–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22102396-05102009.
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The British Library holds one of 65 existing copies of the first dated book printed in Muscovy by Ivan Fedorov and Petr Mstislavets, the Apostol (Acts and Epistles) (1564) and one of two known copies of Ivan Fedorov’s Primer (L’viv, 1574), which is considered by many to be the first Cyrillic book printed in Ukraine. The recent history of these books is linked to the name of the legendary Russian art critic and impresario Serge Diaghilev (1872–1929). Both titles belonged to his private book collection. A story of Diaghilev’s collection became part of the history of the British Library when in 1975 it acquired, among other books and manuscripts, his copy of the famous 1564 Apostol. Diaghilev’s copy of the 1574 Primer resurfaced at Harvard University Library, but its detailed descriptions and facsimile editions helped the British Library curator Christine Thomas, then in charge of the Russian collections, to identify a second copy, which is now held at the British Library. This article tells the story of how over 70 titles from Diaghilev’s collection of rare Russian books and manuscripts were acquired by the British Library, examines possible reasons for Diaghilev’s passion for books, and highlights other themes relevant for the history of private and public book collecting.
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Winterbottom, Anna. "Ornithology, Anthropology, and the History of Medicine: Casey Wood's Asian and Pacific Travels and Collections, c1920-36." Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada 59 (July 5, 2023): 19–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/pbsc.v59i1.37869.
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Casey Wood's retirement allowed him time to expand his horizons, both in terms of his travel and the scope of his intellectual enquiries. His ornithological interests in Fiji in the South Pacific and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in South Asia led him to fund the production of two large-scale collections of paintings illustrating the birds of these two islands. Both original collections were reserved for the Blacker-Wood library, but in Ceylon, these paintings also formed the basis of The Coloured Plates of the Birds of Ceylon, published between 1927 and 1935. In Ceylon and Kashmir, Wood collected manuscripts and lithographs, mainly relating to the history of medicine. His collection of palm-leaf manuscripts (olas) from Ceylon was particularly extensive, with over 220 remaining in the Osler and Rare Books and Special Collections branches of the McGill libraries. Wood also collected physical objects, beginning with bird skins, nests, and eggs in Fiji and branching out to include objects associated with healing in Ceylon. The object from Ceylon, numbering around 200, were originally collected for the Medical Museum and are now housed in the Redpath Museum at McGill. They represent a unique resource for the material culture of medicine. Wood's travels brought him into contact with a wide range of people, from the American plant prospector David Fairchild to Rabindranath Tagore, a central figure in the Bengali renaissance. Wood's reflections on his journeys provide some interesting insights into practices of natural history and collecting in late colonial societies on the brink of the second world war.
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Jarvis, Charles E. "‘The most common grass, rush, moss, fern, thistles, thorns or vilest weeds you can find’: James Petiver's plants." Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science 74, no. 2 (November 27, 2019): 303–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2019.0012.
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The dried plant specimens painstakingly acquired by the London apothecary James Petiver ( ca 1663–1718) from around the world constitute a substantial, but underappreciated, component of the vast herbarium of Sir Hans Sloane, now housed at London's Natural History Museum. Petiver was an observant field biologist whose own collecting was focused in south-east England. However, he also obtained specimens from an astoundingly wide geographical area via numerous collectors, more than 160 of whose names are known. While many were wild-collected, gardens in Great Britain and abroad also played a role in facilitating the study of the many new and strange exotics that were arriving in Europe. A new estimate of the number of specimens present in Petiver's herbarium suggests a figure of ca 21 000 gatherings. In this article, the appearance of the bound volumes, and the arrangement of the specimens within them, is assessed and contrasted with those volumes assembled by Leonard Plukenet and Hans Sloane. Petiver's published species descriptions and illustrations are shown to be frequently associated with extant specimens, letters and other manuscripts, making the whole a rich archive for the study of early modern collecting of natural curiosities at a time of increasing ‘scientific’ purpose.