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[woodwindy]

Bonjour mes amis!

I thought this might be of interest. Please feel free to forward this
as you see fit -- I'm not on any scribal lists, and I suspect some of
those folks would also like to take a look. :)

     -Sabine de Kerbriant


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A New Digital Resource for Historians of Islamic Art and Culture: ****

The Islamic Manuscripts of the Walters Art Museum****

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With the help of a Preservation and Access Grant from the National Endowment
for the Humanities, and with additional funding from an anonymous donor, the
Walters At Museum  is pleased to announce the completion of its program to
create digital surrogates of its collection of Islamic manuscripts and
single leaves. All the data is licensed for use under Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 UnportedAccess Rights,
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode. Images are free
for any noncommercial use, provided you follow the terms of the license.
There is no need to apply to the Walters prior to using the images. ****

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Highlights of the collection include a fifteenth-century Timurid Qur’an (Ms.
W.563); a late seventeenth-century copy of the Book on Navigation by Piri
Reis (Ms. W.658); and a sixteenth-century de luxe Mughal manuscript of Amir
Khusrau Dhilavi’s Khamsa (Ms. W.624).  As you will see, images were taken of
all parts of the manuscript, including the binding, fore-edge, and spine.
Text pages were imaged at 600 dpi; illuminated pages were taken at up to
1200 dpi.  The manuscripts have been catalogued by Adam Gacek (Principal
Cataloguer) and Amy Landau. The details are as follows.****

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The data is up at:****

http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/****

The general ReadMe file is at:****

http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/03_ReadMe.html****

The technical ReadMe file is at:****

http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/04_TechnicalReadMe.html****

The easiest way to access the raw data is at:****

http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/01_ACCESS_WALTERS_MANUSCRIPTS.html****

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As you will see, the Islamic Manuscripts are fully catalogued in XML
according to  TEI P5 guidelines. You will see English, German, Dutch,
Armenian, Byzantine, and Ethiopian Manuscripts up there as well, but these
have not yet been fully catalogued, so don’t expect any TEI for them yet: we
are in the middle of that process.****

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Obviously, although this is our core data, this presentation of the material
is not primarily for the general public.  We have two main portals for
user-friendly derivatives of our data.  All our illustrated pages we post on
Flickr, for which check out:****

http://www.flickr.com/photos/medmss/sets/****

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We also publish full PDFs for download of all our manuscripts on the Walters
Website:  For example:****

http://art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=23935****

Just under the title of the manuscript, you will see that you can download
the PDF. The PDF begins with a full human readable catalogue description of
the manuscript, transformed as part of the PDF from the TEI XML.****

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We do hope that this resource will prove useful to you in your work and
play.  We would be grateful if you would let your colleagues know about it.
If you administer a list-serve, than we would be grateful if you would let
your readers know about it.****

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We would also be most grateful for your feedback, and to hear any questions
you may have. Please contact us at alandau at thewalters.org,
wnoel at thewalters.org, or
mss-curator at thewalters.org<https://email.hood.edu/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx>
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Thank you very much****

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William Noel****

Amy Landau****

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