The project facilitates working with #manuscripts and generates new research results. @stabiberlin.bsky.social with its collection of Hebrew manuscripts that are already indexed in #Qalamos, is now one of the project's partners.
...The work was printed on wove paper by the renowned Ismail Bei Gazprinsky (1851-1914) in Crimea. Permission to print was granted on October 20, 1898, in St. Petersburg, see #Qalamos: qalamos.net/receive/DE1B...
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We continue this legacy today. By converting analogue records into a digital portal, #Qalamos ensures that the dialogue spanning over 200 years between Indologists and ancient Indian wisdom remains accessible to everyone. 2/2
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The visitors from the Hindu temple were very knowledgeable, asked many interesting questions and were able to contribute a lot of interesting information. You can find the album's metadata and portrait online on #Qalamos: ..../3
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Indian manuscripts will now be regularly exhibited at #StabiKulturwerk (stabi-kulturwerk.de), such as this elegant Jain manuscript (Ms. or. fol. 1708, Uttarādhyayanasūtrāvacūri, digitised in #Qalamos) mimicking the shape of a palm leaf on which Indian texts were formerly written.
The #Qalamos team wishes everyone a Happy Valentine's Day on Feb. 14th! 💘The following illustrations show various romantic scenes from #manuscripts from Iranian and Indian writing cultures💝
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Provenance research data regarding the ownership and chain of custody contained in manuscripts are included in the #Qalamos metadata, if available. The catalogue "Singhalesische Handschriften" by H. Bechert... /1
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Exploring the #Oppenheim collection today, we came across this fascinating document. 📜This imperial features a Tughra from 1917 printed in gold, standing in elegant contrast to the fluid handwritten script of the decree below. 🖋️✨
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#Tughra #Calligraphy #Qalamos
🔸From marginalia to history!
#Qalamos has a specialised module for #manuscript_notes allowing to explore thousands of entries, including 140+ endowment notes that reveal the rich culture of book endowments in the Islamic world. Start exploring: 👇
shorturl.at/OT7a0
#codicology
In the future, the #Qalamos book art module will be expanded to include more Christian-Oriental book art, with a particular focus on Ethiopia. 😀
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As the year comes to an end, let’s review the 2025 statistics from #Qalamos posts on #Bluesky: Most interacted, unique interactions, most used words and top posts!😀
🎅 A Christmas present from #Qalamos: After a search for manuscript metadata, the search results can now also be filtered by year. The two search fields below the "additional filters" allow a search from/to the given years.
🤩🎅Leipzig University has created a beautiful electronic Advent calendar, a real "Treasure Trove", which highlights interesting areas. Under today's date, you will find a link to #Qalamos with beautiful miniatures, like this one from the famous Jahangir Album: www.uni-leipzig.de/universitaet...
We don't know if #AI will take our jobs, but for now, we use it to do them better. At #Qalamos, we blend our code with AI-generated code to build workflow-boosting tools—like our transcription tool for #DIN_31635, #LoC, and original #Arabic. The future is uncertain, but the collaboration is real.💪🦾
Well over 2 million visitors have visited our #Qalamos site in 2025!
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These manuscripts are written on paper, papyrus, palm leaves, wood, parchment, textiles, bark, and much more. Many manuscripts also contain images (miniatures), decorations (illuminations), and illustrations.
Here's a video from our #Qalamos office with two examples of digitized manuscripts!
A small #Qalamos update with video: In its third project year, our #Qalamos database now includes metadata from Asian, African, Christian-Oriental, and Hebrew manuscripts—that's over 166,000 records of manuscripts in nearly 180 languages and numerous scripts.
Important publication!📚 With its module #manuscript_notes also #Qalamos draws the attention of the scholars to the notes of various types and genres in the margins of #manuscripts. So far over five thousand marginal notes recorded. Read more here:👇
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An interesting discovery: A manuscript (shelfmark Chambers 821 b) in #Qalamos that served as an English-Bengali dictionary or glossary, in which not only the Bengali words in the right column are written in Bengali script, but also the English terms in the left. .../1
Team #Qalamos sends their best #Halloween wishes with the most impressive demons from South Asian (shelfmark Hs or 1931) and Middle Eastern manuscripts (shelfmark Ms or fol 4103). 🧛♀️👻👺💀 🎃
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....and in response, a dragon from a manuscript of Museum Fünf Kontinente München (shelfmark 77-11-287), which can be found in #Qalamos: "A dragon's fight with djinns and peris" qalamos.net/receive/DEMU...
Interesting workshop! #Qalamos contains over 150 Arabic #endowment notes from the holdings of various mss. collections across Germany and beyond. With the further development of the portal, this number will gradually increase. Check out the link below to see the current entries:👇
shorturl.at/eQ7GM
We are pleased to announce that more Indian manuscripts are ready for digitisation and will soon be available on #Qalamos. 😀The first 200 will include Jain and Kashmiri manuscripts, as well as palm-leaf manuscripts and manuscripts from the Chambers collection.
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The #Qalamos team would like to point out that the impressive exhibition "Materialisierte Heiligkeit. Jüdische Buchkunst im rituellen Kontext" will open next Sunday, October 19, at the Berlin State Library, Unter den Linden 8, Wilhelm von Humboldt Hall.
Early Quranic #manuscripts continue to reveal fascinating insights into the history of the #Quran. #Qalamos provides metadata for several fragments from this period, preserved in German libraries & academic institutions — and links to digital copies when available!🦾👇
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That is fascinating! #Qalamos, with its entries on text fragments from the #Turfan collection, is undoubtedly also an online resource for anyone interested in writing cultures along the Silk Road. The basic metadata can already be viewed, a starting point for those interested in #silkroad cultures.
Fascinating event!😱
With its agent module called #name_authority, #Qalamos provides i.a. data on authors, copyist etc. and their relationship with books, places, institutions & other agents—functioning also as a platform for obtaining data for #historical_network_analysis!
#digital_humanities
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.... Unfortunately, there are still few digitised copies of the Indian manuscripts in #Qalamos, but we hope that this will change. The #Qalamos team wishes everyone a Happy Navarātri!
The miniature shows the goddess Saravatī in the manuscript Ms. or. fol. 2897 on her vahana, the peacock.
The importance of the Devī cult in India and abroad is evident from the sheer number of manuscripts in #Qalamos one finds when running a full-text search using the generic term Devī, as well as the names Śakti, Lakṣmī, Durgā, Kālī, Caṇḍā/Caṇḍī, Pārvatī, Sarasvatī, and many others. /2
Here is the link to the page for the #Max_von_Oppenheim #manuscript collection on the #Qalamos portal. There, you will find a brief introduction to the collection itself and the plans for its cataloguing and digitisation:👇
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