Shared by Barry Flood:
"MASTERING A WORLD BY CONSUMING A BOOK, CIRCA 1495-1505"
Yael Rice, Amherst College
Online and in person at New York University, Room 222, 20 Cooper Square, New York, 10003
Wednesday, February 22nd, 6.30 pm EST
Part of the NYU Silsila Spring 2023 Program
Dear Colleagues,
The Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations at the American University in Cairo is looking forward to welcoming our Bayard Dodge Distinguished Visiting Professor for this year, Professor Christiane Gruber, in late February.
Online lecture by Agata Paluch.
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Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World
Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World
"Seven institutions have come together to create a database of 34,000 new images of medieval manuscripts, books and coins. This includes over 600 manuscripts that are now online." (Medievalists.net)
Friends:
The "Circulating Now" blog of the National LIbrary of Medicine has a post discussing the problems posed when transcribing a manuscript that includes a mixture of idiosyncratic shortcuts and how the author tried to overcome them.
https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2023/01/19/a-secret-language-the-perils-of-transcription/
Friends:
This review is cross-posed from H-Sci-Med-Tech. Margaret DeLacy, H-Scholar editor
Michelle R. Warren. Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet. Text Technologies Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. Illustrations. 360 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0800-9; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-3116-8.
Michelle R. Warren.
Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet.
Text Technologies Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. Illustrations. 360 pp.
$90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0800-9; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-3116-8. 
