(Partially) digitised Arabic manuscripts made 1820–1930 from the FNT05 project
These are the digital images acquired for the research project The Last Decades of Arabic Manuscript Culture (1870–1930): Coexistence and Interaction with Printing (FNT05) at the CSMC/Cluster of Excellency Understanding Written Artefacts, running from 2020 to 2023. Most manuscripts were not fully digitised but only regarding interesting sections. There are also a few damaged files. The following shelf marks are represented:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin/Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin State Library)
Hs. or. 1664, 1794 (print), 4533, 4960, 4983, 5122, 8563, 9735, 10091, 10655, 13549, 13863, 13864, 13924, 14009 and 14079.
Ms. or. oct. 1380, 1804, 1842, 1953, 3198, 3602, 3750, 3932 and 3947.
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Bavarian State Library, Munich)
Cod.arab. 1492, 1510, 1542, 1581, 1653, 2152, 2314, 2455, 2463, 2503, 2514, 2528 and 2551f (one image only).
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen (Lower Saxon State and University Library Göttingen)
Cod. Ms. arab. 277 and 552.
For further information on the manuscripts, see the (forthcoming) publications of the research project FNT05, authored by Dr. Cornelius Berthold, and the Heurist database.
The research for project FNT05 was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC 2176 “Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures”, project no. 390893796. The research was conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg.
