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Ed Webb

Timbuktu mayor: Mali rebels torched library of historic manuscripts | World news | guar... - 1 views

  • Islamist insurgents retreating from Timbuktu set fire to a library containing thousands of priceless historic manuscripts,
  • The manuscripts had survived for centuries in Timbuktu, on the remote south-west fringe of the Sahara desert. They were hidden in wooden trunks, buried in boxes under the sand and in caves. When French colonial rule ended in 1960, Timbuktu residents held preserved manuscripts in 60-80 private libraries.The vast majority of the texts were written in Arabic. A few were in African languages, such as Songhai, Tamashek and Bambara. There was even one in Hebrew. They covered a diverse range of topics including astronomy, poetry, music, medicine and women's rights. The oldest dated from 1204.
  • they exploded the myth that "black Africa" had only an oral history. "You just need to look at the manuscripts to realise how wrong this is."
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  • only a fraction of the manuscripts had been digitised. "They cover geography, history and religion. We had one in Turkish. We don't know what it said."
  • Mali government forces that had been guarding Timbuktu left the town in late March, as Islamist fighters advanced rapidly across the north. Fighters from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) – the group responsible for the attack on the Algerian gas facility – then swept in and seized the town, pushing out rival militia groups including secular Tuareg nationalists.
  • As well as the manuscripts, the fighters destroyed almost all of the 333 Sufi shrines dotted around Timbuktu, believing them to be idolatrous. They smashed a civic statue of a man sitting on a winged horse.
  • The rebels enforced their own brutal and arbitrary version of Islam, residents said, with offenders flogged for talking to women and other supposed crimes. The floggings took place in the square outside the 15th-century Sankoré mosque, a Unesco world heritage site.
  • They weren't religious men. They were criminals
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    Such a tragedy
David Hilton

Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts - 0 views

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    A large collection of images of medieval manuscripts however you can't zoom to a close focus and there aren't translations, except for a brief description of what each page on the manuscript contains.
David Hilton

The Fitzwilliam Museum : Themes - 0 views

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    This is a representative selection of images from some of the most sumptuous manuscripts displayed in the Cambridge Illuminations exhibition
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    Quite a few beautiful images from medieval manuscripts. They don't make 'em like that anymore.
David Hilton

IOM RAS - Manuscript Collection Kept at the IOM RAS - 0 views

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    These manuscripts are maintained by the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts at St Petersburg. I don't know if they have English translations - how's your Tibetan?
David Hilton

Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts: Search - 0 views

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    You'll need a bit of medieval Latin for this site, but once that minor hurdle is overcome this is a godsend. It's chockers with scanned images of medieval manuscripts, most of them in Latin.
David Hilton

Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts: About Us - 0 views

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    I'm not sure if this site has digitised medieval manuscripts there or if it functions as a search engine for the rest of the web, but either way it's a good place to find medieval primary sources.
Ben Pope

Medieval Manuscripts at the Syracuse University Library || Syracuse University Library - 3 views

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    As requested by David - here's the medieval manuscript database link for Syracuse University...
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    Thanks mate.
Kay Cunningham

The British Library Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts - 4 views

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    Search for and view images of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the British Library. Detailed descriptions and bibliographies also included for each image. "Images can be accessed, printed and downloaded in unaltered form with copyright acknowledged, on a temporary basis for personal study"--See the British Library's copyright notice for more details.
Kay Cunningham

Digital Collections - History of Medicine - 6 views

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    'NLM historical collections include selected digitized material relating to the history of medicine. Chosen from the manuscripts and books collections, the prints and photographs collection, historical films and videos, current and past exhibitions, and the Digital Manuscripts Program, these digitized materials cover a spectrum of centuries and cultures from medieval Islam to contemporary biomedical research.'
International School of Central Switzerland

the two volumes of the Geese Book - 3 views

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    "Explore 1120 pages in the manuscript New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 905, better known as the Geese Book. Use the drop-down calendar to locate feasts and saints' days. Hear and see selected chants with transcriptions and translations."
David Hilton

Digital Scores and Libretti - 0 views

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    Might be useful for research into classical music or c18th/c19th European high culture.
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    The scores and libretti in this Virtual Collection include first and early editions and manuscript copies of music from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by J.S. Bach and Bach family members, Mozart, Schubert and other composers, as well as multiple versions of nineteenth century opera scores, seminal works of musical modernism, and music of the Second Viennese School.
David Hilton

Historical Collections - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center - 1 views

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    A vast collection on the business history of the United States since its inception.
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    From its inception, Baker Library has collected rare and unique materials that focus on the evolution of business and industry. Spanning seven centuries, the collections include manuscripts, rare books, pamphlets, broadsides, photographs, prints, advertising ephemera, and corporate reports. These rich and varied collections support research in a remarkably diverse range of fields.
David Hilton

Flickr: Beinecke Flickr Laboratory's Photostream - 0 views

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    This is a collection of images on flickr of manuscripts, mostly it seems from the seventeenth century. It's maintained my a rare book and manuscript library at Yale.
David Hilton

Dead Sea Scrolls - Qumran Library - 1 views

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    Images and translations of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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    The scrolls and scroll fragments recovered in the Qumran environs represent a voluminous body of Jewish documents, a veritable "library", dating from the third century B.C.E. to 68 C.E. Unquestionably, the "library," which is the greatest manuscript find of the twentieth century, demonstrates the rich literary activity of Second Temple Period Jewry and sheds insight into centuries pivotal to both Judaism and Christianity.
David Hilton

Early Manuscripts at Oxford University - 0 views

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    Scanned images of manuscripts from seven collections held by libraries at Oxford University. Extensive and without translations. Most of them are in medieval Latin.
Kay Cunningham

The Wellcome Library - 0 views

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    A collection of primary sources focussing on medicine.
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    'Collections of books, manuscripts, archives, films and pictures on the history of medicine from the earliest times to the present day.'
David Hilton

Bodleian Library: Western manuscripts to c.1500: Browse images - 0 views

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    Excellent images of the manuscripts to a high level of detail, however no translations available. When will these people realise that everyone's Medieval Latin is a little rusty these days?
David Hilton

http://www.bsrdigitalcollections.it - 4 views

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    The British School at Rome Archive (BSR) thanks to the Getty Foundation, made freely available digital copies of the John Bryan Ward-Perkins photographic collection. A website of the "BSR digital collections was created to present not only the photographic material (Photographs) but also other types of resources which follow into different categories: Maps, Prints, Documents, Postcards, Drawings, Paintings and Manuscripts". But "the majority of the digital images displayed on the website are represented by the photographic prints and negatives from unique historic collections, including calotypes, glass and film negatives, slides and lantern slides."
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    Seems to focus more on the history of the British School at Rome rather than Roman history. Should revise the tags at this point but this summer heat here in Queensland is making me lazy...
David Hilton

Houghton Library MSS Widener - Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library - Harva... - 3 views

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    Links to pages with images of manuscripts in the respective language.
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