Manuscript Collections Research Articles

Nicolae Iorga and the Ardelean School. Gheorghe Şincai, re-evaluation of a portrait

Nicolae Iorga’s research on Transilvania, published in the second volume of Istoriei literaturii române, sugestively titled Epoca lui Petru Maior (The epoch of Petru Maior) is a landmark for the theme of Școala Ardeleană, opening new investigation paths. The historiography of the Romanian Enlightenment in Transylvania or the history of books and printing are topics that have the first edition of Istoria literaturii române în secolul al XVIII-lea as mandatory bibliographic reference even now, more than 100 years after its publication. Within the work, the research dedicated to Gheorghe Şincai resulted in a portrait combining the general analysis of the life path and historical work from the positions and with the instruments of the literary historian. Nicolae Iorga’s study played the role of a model, its form and background being invoked in many subsequent pieces of research. One of the images of Gheorghe Șincai, perpetuated in the pages of historiography, we also owe to Nicolae Iorga: „a different nature than the gentle monk of Blaj, a fiery, stubborn, harsh temperament. An apostle other than the preacher with the spirit of meekness, a warrior who proclaims the new truth in the hearing of all, a prophet by the sword, who has come to bring war”. Regarding the contribution to the development of the Romanian historical writing, Șincai is considered by Nicolae Iorga a compiler, and his representative work, Hronica românilor, a compilation. In the light of the progress of the methods of text analysis, of the inclination towards the detailed research of the manuscript collections of the Transylvanian Enlightenment, the present study proposes a re-evaluation of Gheorghe Șincai’s scientific profile and a reconsideration of the role of his historical writing on the road to modernity.

Дневник Каркея Нербышева в контексте исследования личности писателя

The purpose of the study is to identify the personality traits and creative appearance of the famous Khakass writer and journalist Nikolai (Karkey) Trofimovich Nerbyshev using the materials of the writer’s unpublished journal. The paper describes the content of the journal, which recorded the events that took place in the writer’s life from 1976 to 1984. Scientific novelty lies in introducing into scientific use Karkey Nerbyshev’s journal, stored in the manuscript collection of the Khakass Research Institute for Language, Literature, and History in folder No. 2245, as a most valuable source of research on his personality. As a result, it has been proved that Karkey Nerbyshev’s journal is an important material not only for obtaining new information about the writer’s life and creative work but also for studying his personal qualities, value system, views, as well as his assessment of the creative work of 1980s Khakass writers.

How do Muslim-Majority Countries Respond to Islamic Political Parties? Research Trend Studies and Theme Mapping

This study aims to explore Islamic political parties in major Islamic countries. Previous studies have examined Islamic Political Parties with various topics accompanied by different focuses. However, no research has contributed to mapping the extent of the trend in the study of Islamic political parties. The breadth of space to examine the phenomenon of Islamic political parties offers an excellent opportunity for further researchers to re-examine this issue. To bridge this, trend studies and mapping of problems and themes were carried out. This study uses qualitative methods to analyze working texts on publications related to Islamic Political Parties. Research data is mined from the Scopus academic database using a search strategy to generate data relevant to the problem to be studied. In processing the mined data, we use Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) software, Nvivo12 Plus. The results of an in-depth analysis of a collection of academic manuscripts mined from the Scopus academy database for two decades (2001-2021) yielded 171 documents for further study. The data analysis findings show that the intensity of documents in each country is different, which can then be further classified based on the type of document, subject area, author with the highest number of records, and distribution of affiliations and publishers. The level of document intensity in each country has been shown, with Turkey being the country that contributed the most documents, followed by Indonesia, Malaysia, and India. The dominant issues and themes of each country have also been identified.

Introduction: Material Transfer—Intellectual Transfer: Salman Schocken’s Collections

Salman Schocken (Margonin, Poznań, 1877 – Pontresina, Switzerland, 1959) was the owner of a large chain of department stores in Germany and an active Zionist, but his name is first and foremost tied to the history of the Jewish book. As the founder of the Schocken Verlag in Berlin (1931–1938), he was one of the prominent Jewish publishers in the first half of the twentieth century, and continued his work with publishing houses in Jerusalem (later moving to Tel Aviv) and New York. As Volker Dahm’s trailblazing research has shown, Schocken held a central position in the renaissance of Jewish culture in Germany between the wars, and an important role in the renewal of modern Hebrew literature. The ‘Bücherei des Schocken-Verlages’ series, published between 1933 and 1938, remains a monument to German-Jewish cultural life between the world wars. Salman Schocken was an extraordinary collector of books, manuscripts, and art, too. His private interest and knowledge as a connoisseur of German as well as Hebrew books directed some of his activities as a publisher—and vice versa: he bought rare books and manuscripts in order to make them available to research through editions and scholarly studies. For Schocken, both his work as a publisher and his collection of Hebrew books and manuscripts formed part of his Zionism, and the attempt to reconnect dispersed fragments of Jewish culture. His successful chain of department stores in Germany allowed Schocken to purchase German as well as Hebrew and Yiddish books and manuscripts on a large scale during the economically turbulent years of the Weimar Republic, when many private collections were dissolved. Even after 1933, Schocken continued to enlarge and consolidate his collections. He became increasingly aware of the necessity to rescue and to preserve Jewish cultural assets from the National Socialist regime. While his publishing house was liquidated in 1938/1939 and Schocken’s department stores were sold to a German syndicate of banks for a price far below their actual value, Schocken managed to transfer his private collections to Jerusalem, as well as most of the publishing house’s stocks. The transfer was a practical move, and yet it can be considered a symbolic act of salvage, too. Schocken commissioned the architect Erich Mendelsohn (1887–1953) to design a functional, modern library in Jerusalem to house his collections.

The rediscovered Islamic manuscripts of the Cospi Museum in the University Library of Bologna

Abstract This article reconstructs, by means of unpublished and newly discovered archival sources, the path of the Islamic manuscripts of the Cospi Museum from their entry into the collection of Ferdinando Cospi up to the present day, and identifies them, for the first time, in a group of manuscripts currently held in the University Library of Bologna. Although Islamic manuscripts had made their way to Italy since medieval times and numerous examples may be found in Italian libraries today, very few represent the collection of a single individual and, among these, fewer still have survived as a coherent group. The rediscovered collection of Islamic manuscripts of the Cospi Museum therefore represents a rare survival which provides new insights into early modern collecting practices in Italy, as well as new material through which to explore the history of the interaction between the Islamic world and Italy in the early modern period.

When a King of Norway Became a King of Russia

When a King of Norway Became a King of Russia

On the History of the Princeton University Library Collection of Islamic Manuscripts

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.

Paul Sbath’s Manuscript Library

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.

A RESEARCH ON AN ALEVI-BEKTASHI POETRY JOURNAL ORIGINATING FROM SİVAS-YILDIZELİ

Junks and journals are valuable writings; in this case they are used in evaluation and in formation of the Turkish literature. In earlier junk and journal studies, a serious work of literature has been formed and a lot of materials, especially biographies and poems of poets have been collected. Even though the fact that a significant number of studies have been done, these studies are insufficient, considering the large number of manuscripts waiting to be brought out. Together with the digital archives of libraries and the manuscript collections of individuals, the junks and journals found in research are written sources that contribute to the traditions of minstrel literature and classical poetry. An Alevi-Bektashi journal of poetry, which was discovered by us in the Islim village of Yıldızeli district of Sivas, is one of them. The review study carried out in 2017, Veli Şahin, who is the village’s Alevi leadership and a poet, provided a magazine containing poems belonging to Alevi-Bektashi poets and contributed to the literature. In the poetry journal named Veli Şahin Journal, there are 150 poems belonging to 37 poets that are representing the tradition of Abdal Musa, Vīrānī, Nesīmī, Shāh Khaṭāʾī, Yemīnī and Kul Himmet. Information about Veli Şahin, who is not a poet in literature, and one of his poems are given as an example. The poems in the journal were evaluated in terms of form and content by respecting its original order, and in appendix “the index of pseudonym lines”, poetry samples and visuals from the journal were given. This index of pseudonym lines includes similar texts of poems in the journal from previous dīvān, junk, magazine and anthology studies that were tried to be determined. Several data were presented for “similar text” studies that could be done in the future. In this study, the aim is to contribute new evaluations made in this sense through searching Veli Şahin’s Journal about its form and content features belonging to the Alevi-Bektashi tradition and to the similar texts of poems.

Stories of Resurrection in the Qin Manuscripts and the Transformation of Burial Customs in the Qin Dynasty

Abstract The stories *Dan 丹 from the Fangmatan 放馬灘 Qin manuscripts, and Taiyuan you sizhe 泰原有死者 from the Peking University Qin manuscript collection, tell of the afterlife and the proper burial and sacrificial practices for the dead through the words of two men who died and returned to life. The proper burial and sacrificial practices proposed in the texts include the replacement of money and silk with symbolic objects, the abandonment of burying a body in the bent position and the breaking of burial goods, the restriction on joint burial of husband and wife, and advocating moderation and cleanliness in sacrificial rituals at the grave. The two texts reflect how the literate class endeavored to make the old burial and sacrificial customs in Qin culture closer to the collective customs of the six eastern states.

Utility of routine echocardiograms on premature infants with chronic lung disease post oxygen wean.

Utility of routine echocardiograms on premature infants with chronic lung disease post oxygen wean.

Transcript of “Frances Burney's Legacy Duty Account”

An Account of the Personal Estate, and of Monies arising out of the Real Estate, of Frances D'Arblay formerly of Bolton Street Piccadilly but late of Lower Grosvenor Street Grosvenor Square1 Widow2 who died on the sixth day of January One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty exhibited by Charlotte Barrett Henry Burney and Alfred Turner3 the Executors of the Deceased, acting under the Will of the Deceased, proved in the prerogative Court of Canterbury on the 17th day of February 1840.We do declare that the foregoing is a just and true Account; and we offer to pay to the Commissioners of Stamps the Sum of £365.12.6 for the Duty, after the rate of £3 per Cent. upon the sum of £12187.11.6, being the amount of the said Residue and money which we intend for the use of Richard Barrett Martin Charles Burney [Sarah Harriet Burney]19 being severally the descendant of a Sister the descendant of a Brother & own Sister to the Deceased.20Dated this 2 day of September2119th day of October 1840[Signed] Alfred TurnerFor self & Co Executors1762-184022 ASSESSMENTThe Duty on the within mentioned Sum of £12187.11.8 is assessed after the Rate of £3 per Centum at the sum of £365.12.6By the Commissioners[Signature] <LANNIE>24. Oct. 40To shew the balance of cash if any23Total of Column No 1 4833.0.3½Total of Payments 1243.15.9No interest has been made on this Cash balance as it has been lying at Messrs Hoares & Co Bankers24Dr Burney's ManuscriptsI the undersigned Lieutenant56 Col Henry Burney one of the Executors of the late Madam D'Arblay have inspected the correspondence and papers of the late Dr Burney of Chelsea the father of Madame D'Arblay given by her to Dr Charles Parr Burney and find that they consist principally of family letters for the most part devoid of public interest & the rest of them are so few in number & are generally so unimportant in their manner as to be little worth the trouble and expense of editorship & risk of publication. I therefore really think that they are not (especially in their present condition) worth £50.Hamilton TerraceRegents Park 1 October 1840 [Signed] H BurneyWe offer to pay legacy duty on the above papers on the estimated value of Fifty Pounds that being in our opinion their full value. H Burney } Alfred Turner } Executors Satisfactory [examiner's initials]57Frances Burney's manuscripts 7 Middle St. King's Road Brighton, September 9. 1840 Madam58Having carefully considered the subject, I hasten to acquaint you that I estimate the value of the collection of Manuscripts bequeathed to you by Madame D'Arblay at One hundred Pounds. You may rely upon my judgment in the matter, having had great experience in the Publishing business in connexion with my friend Mr Colburn, the first London Publisher.59I have the honor to be MadamYour very obedient[signed] W. Shoberl.60Satisfactory [examiner's initials]Account of Dividends61

Consemnări despre Marea Serbare Națională de la Putna din 1871 și comemorările ei în manuscrise inedite aflate în colecțiile „Fond Bucovina”, Biblioteca Bucovinei „I. G. Sbiera”

"A foray into the manuscript collections of the “I. G. Sbiera” Bukovina Library from Suceava brought to light two manuscripts that have not been published with references to the National Celebration in Putna in 1871, and some correspondence pages between some personalities of cultural life. The topic is treated extensively by Dr. Ion Negură, in a manuscript from 1981, and tangentially to the establishment of the company “Arboroasa” by Prof. Pintea Socaciu and Prof. Reveca Dușceac-Prelipceanu. Ion Negură’s manuscript work refers to aspects related to the history of Bukovina, academic societies, a rich correspondence with Nicodim Ițcuș and has not been capitalized until today. Probably the manuscript about this event from the life of the Romanian Youth (“junime”) was prepared for publication, but it does not appear mentioned in other subsequent studies regarding the Great feast of Putna. The second mentioned manuscript refers to the “Arboroasa” Academic Society (1875–1938), for the establishment of which the Putna Celebration was the engine, through the decision of the Student Congress to establish societies in all university centres. "

Homilies on the Psalms: Codex Monacensis Graecus 314 by Origen

Reviewed by: Homilies on the Psalms: Codex Monacensis Graecus 314 by Origen Mark Randall James Origen. Homilies on the Psalms: Codex Monacensis Graecus 314. Translated by Joseph W. Trigg. [The Fathers of the Church, Volume 141.] (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press: 2021. Pp. xii, 486. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-8132-3319-2.) One of the most exciting events in recent patristic scholarship was Marina Pradel’s 2012 discovery of twenty-nine of Origen’s homilies on the Psalms, hiding in plain sight in the manuscript collection of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich. The eminent scholar Lorenzo Perrone quickly and conclusively identified these anonymous homilies as belonging to Origen, delivered in Caesarea near the end of his life. In collaboration with Pradel, Emanuela Prinzivalli, and Antonio Cacciari, Perrone rapidly produced an excellent critical edition.1 Thanks to Joseph Trigg, these homilies are now available to an English-language readership. Together with Trigg’s learned introduction and illuminating notes, they provide a new window onto the work and the world of one of the Church’s most influential teachers. [End Page 790] For Origen, the Psalms were not primarily liturgical texts. As Trigg observes, there is very little evidence of Christian liturgical use of the Psalms in the third century (p. 20). Instead, Origen regards the Psalms as “patterns” for imitation (Hom Ps 15.2.4), pedagogical texts that guide the soul’s deification by forming how one speaks. (Karen Jo Torjesen’s classic study of Origen’s hermeneutic procedures, which begins with an analysis of the Psalm homilies then extant in Latin translation, remains an excellent guide to these new Greek texts.2) These new homilies show how much Origen envisioned deification as a process of linguistic formation. Even when the proper speaker (prosopon) of a psalm is the divine Logos, Origen teaches human beings how to use and imitate his divine words as they come to share his divine nature.3 As Trigg rightly emphasizes, the Psalms (like the rest of the Septuagint) were often a culturally and linguistically alien literature to Origen’s third-century Hellenized community (pp. 10–12). Trigg aims to preserve the Septuagint’s linguistic difficulty, sometimes leading to translations that will sound clunky to the ears of modern readers, accustomed to smoothed-out contemporary translations, as in his rendering of Psalm 15:57b (LXX): “yet also until night my kidneys disciplined me” (p. 61). Origen brings the full weight of his grammatical training to bear resolving linguistic difficulties, from infelicitous Hebrew syntax to unfamiliar words, some of which Origen correctly recognized as novel coinages (Hom Ps 36.1.1). The homilies also contain familiar defenses of Origen’s strategy of reading allegorically, sometimes tinged with humor. As Trigg observes, “[Origen] asks those who resist figurative interpretation if they actually think that the angels have kitchen utensils for cooking manna or a brass section that will play the trumpet of doom” (p. 8). Trigg’s translation happily eschews the unhelpful term “literal.” I cannot agree, however, with Trigg’s distinction between lexis (wording) and rheton (statement): [Origen] uses the grammatical term lexis to refer to the actual words of Scripture and rheton to refer to the immediate, intuitive sense of those words. The first two columns in the Hexapla are the lexis in Hebrew letters and transliterated in Greek characters. The remaining columns translate the rheton of that lexis. The rheton is simply what the words say, even if it ascribes a “hand” to God or “doors” to heaven. (pp. 31–32) Trigg is right that Origen always distinguishes the words of scripture from their immediate sense when taken at face value. But for Origen, rheton too refers to the actual words themselves. Thus when exhorting his hearers to memorize scripture, [End Page 791] Origen says, “Often someone comes seeking to understand concepts laid up in the Holy Scripture . . . but not knowing an evangelical statement [rheton], nor remembering an apostolic logos. . .” (Hom Ps 80.2.5). To memorize the evangelical rheton is simply to learn the words of the gospels. By contrast, to signify the immediate understanding of the words, Origen can use either lexis or rheton, usually in a prepositional phrase. For...

How to Cure a Horse, or, the Experience of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Experience

How to Cure a Horse, or, the Experience of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Experience

Together is better: collaborative contributions from higher education researchers based in Europe and Asia

ABSTRACT This is the introduction to a special issue based on panel discussions held at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Consortium for Higher Education Researchers (CHER), which was hosted online by the University of Hong Kong. This collection of manuscripts embodies collaborative efforts by higher education researchers to understand topics of relevance to the field. All of the manuscripts are co-authored, with at least one of the authors based at an Asian institution and at least one other based at a European institution. One of the aims of this special issue was to join diverse authors and present a varied set of contributions, and the nationalities represented in this special issue are indeed diverse. However, the main aim was to stimulate collaboration and understanding between higher education researchers across Europe and Asia, thereby building a more integrated and coherent field and creating a forum for continuous learning and development.

Афонское греческое Житие преподобного Антония Печерского

The article introduces into scholarly circulation the Greek text of the handwritten Life of Anthony of the Caves, which has recently come to the attention of researchers and is preserved in the archives of Athos hardly available until recently. For the first time, a critical edition of the Greek text of the Life is being published, the translation of which was carried out recently and published in the 2018 Kapterevskie Chteniya paper collection. We consider six known copies of a newly discovered monument of Greek Athos literature – the approximately thousand-page “Athoniad” by Jacob Neasketiotes, through which the Life has come down to us. The appendix to the article contains the first critical edition of the Greek text of the Life. The article also discusses the obvious sources of the Greek text, from the Tale of Bygone Years and the Kiev Caves Patericon to the Greek hagiographic collections of the 18th and the 19th centuries. Another interesting question is the connection of the work of the Athonite monk, author and copyist Jacob Neasketiotes with Russian matter, which could be explained by his stay while working on the “Athoniad” in the Russian monastery of St. Panteleimon on Athos and communication with the confessor of the Rossikon Fr. Jerome (Solomentsov). This also explains the presence of several codices with the Lives of Theodosius of the Caves, Mitrofan of Voronezh, and other texts related to Russia in the collection of manuscripts of St. Panteleimon Monastery. The original versions of the “Athoniad”, apparently, strongly depended on the historiographical works of another famous Athonite erudite, Theodoretos Lauriotes, who was a relative of Jacob Neasketiotes.

A Review of the Divine Cönk Numbered 06 Mil Yz Cönk 193 in Manuscripts Collection Of National Library of Turkey

Uzunlamasına açılan defter şeklindeki cönkler, muhtevalarında yer alan edebî ürünler sebebiyle Türk edebiyatının asli kaynaklarındandır. Musiki, tarih, din, tasavvuf ve tıp gibi çeşitli disiplinlere de pek çok veri sağlayan cönkler, mürettibin arzu ve duygularına göre şekillenmişlerdir. Hem hece hem de aruz vezniyle yazılan şiirlerin öne çıktığı bu eserlerin bir kısmında, sadece bir türe ait manzumelerin bir araya derlendiği de görülmektedir. Çalışmamıza konu edilen Milli Kütüphane Yazmalar Koleksiyonu 06 Mil Yz Cönk 193 numarada kayıtlı olan cönkte de ilâhî türündeki 112 manzume yer almaktadır. Farklı nazım şekillerinden müteşekkil bu ilâhîlerin çoğunun hangi makamda icra edildiğinin mürettib tarafından belirtilmiş olması, dinî musiki açısından da önem arz etmektedir. Bu makalede ilk olarak söz konusu cönk fiziksel ve muhteva özellikleri bakımından incelenmiştir. Sonrasında cöngün transkripsiyonlu ve karşılaştırmalı metni hazırlanmıştır. Çalışma sonunda ise cöngün MESTAP (Mecmuların Sistematik Tasnifi Projesi)’a göre tasnifi yapılmıştır. Bu cöngün konu olarak seçilmesindeki amaç Türk İslam edebiyatına kaynaklık eden çok sayıdaki dinî-tasavvufi metni ortaya koyarak ilâhî cönkleri literatürüne katkı sağlamaktır.

Neglected Islamic Civilization? Muslim Intellectual Network in Mindanao, Philippines 19th Century in Aleem Ulomuddin Said Manuscript Collection

This article attempts to fill a research gap on the development of Islam in Mindanao, Southern Philippines, in the 19th century, where Muslim traditions in the region were well established and connected with Muslim intellectuals in other Islamic worlds. This relates mainly to a set of primary sources of Islamic manuscripts recently discovered by scholars such as Gallop, Fathurrahman, and Kawashima in the Mindanao area, which previously belonged to a local Maranao ‘ulamā’, named Shaykh Aleem Ulomuddin Said. This collection of manuscripts is written in three languages: Malay, Arabic, and Maranao, which contains various fields (al-Qur’ān studies, ḥadīth, tafsir, tasawuf, prayer, and ajimat, akidah and theology, and Arabic morphology). Using a qualitative approach and philological research methods, the findings of this study indicate that these Islamic manuscripts show the close relationship of Mindanao Muslim networks during the 18th and 19th centuries with their other Malay counterparts, such as those in Aceh, Banten, Cirebon, and Minangkabau. It also confirmed its network with the wider Islamic world in the Middle East region (Mecca, Medina, and Yemen) through the Sufi order of Shaṭṭārīyah, and influenced the intellectual tradition until the 19th century. Artikel ini mencoba mengisi gap research yang sangat terbatas tentang perkembangan Islam di Mindanao, Filipina Selatan pada abad ke-19 dimana tradisi Muslim di wilayah tersebut sudah mapan dan terhubung dengan intelektual Muslim di dunia Islam lainnya. Ini terutama berkaitan dengan satu set sumber utama manuskrip Islam yang baru-baru ini ditemukan oleh cendikiawan seperti Gallop, Fathurahman, dan Kawashima di daerah Mindanao, yang sebelumnya milik seorang ‘ulamā lokal Maranao, yang bernama Syaikh Aleem Ulomuddin Said. Koleksi manuskrip ini ditulis dengan tiga bahasa yaitu bahasa Melayu, Arab, dan Maranao yang berisi berbagai bidang (studi al-Qur’ān, ḥadīth, tafsir, tasawuf, doa dan ajimat, akidah dan teologi, serta morfologi Arab). Dengan menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dan metode penelitian filologi, temuan penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa manuskrip-manuskrip Islam ini menunjukkan hubungan erat jaringan Muslim Mindanao selama abad ke-18 dan 19 dengan rekan-rekan Melayu mereka lainnya seperti di Aceh, Banten, Cirebon, dan Minangkabau. Hal ini juga menegaskan jaringan mereka dengan dunia Islam yang lebih luas, lebih khusus lagi dengan wilayah Timur Tengah (Mekah, Madinah, dan Yaman) melalui tarekat Sufi Shaṭṭārīyah, dan berpengaruh terhadap tradisi intelektual sampai abad ke-19.

Illumination Detection in IIIF Medieval Manuscripts Using Deep Learning

Illuminated manuscripts are essential iconographic sources for medieval studies. With the massive adoption of IIIF, old and new digital collections of manuscripts are accessible online and provide interoperable image data. However, finding illuminations within the manuscripts’ pages is increasingly time consuming. This article proposes an approach based on machine learning and transfer learning that browses IIIF manuscript pages and detects the illuminated ones. To evaluate our approach, a group of domain experts created a new dataset of manually annotated IIIF manuscripts. The preliminary results show that our algorithm detects the main illuminated pages in a manuscript, thus reducing experts’ search time.