We are delighted to announce that our Digital Corpus, www.invisible-east.org has been nominated for a DH Resource award!
Please consider voting for us if you think we deserve it! You can cast your ballot anytime before 17 April.
#digitalhumanities #digitalcorpus #medievalsky
Delighted to share that documents from our digital corpus now appear in the latest version of the OpenITI corpus, available at Zenodo. For more information see: kitab-project.org/OpenITI-Rele...
Let us know how you are using this new functionality!
#Documents #digitalcorpus #digitalhumanities
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We have now added tags to the medieval Persian documents on our #digitalcorpus www.invisible-east.org
The bureaucracy of 11th–13th century #Afghanistan meets the bureaucracy of modern metadata: jump from a grain-tax dispute to a marriage settlement in two clicks!
#digitalhumanities #medievalmonday
A treat for #MedievalMonday!
This document features in the latest launch on our #digitalcorpus www.invisible-east.org as well as in our Document of the Month 'A History of Two Iranian Festivals: Nawrūz and Sada' by Simone Cristoforetti.
#readingtime: bit.ly/NawruzandSada
Image is of a light grey background, on which a long thing document appears. It is written in New Persian in Arabic script, black ink on a light background - the photography is probably black and white and is not high resolution so it is hard to make out the detail. There are fold lines and staining identifiable.
Read this and more fascinating letters in our sixth launch of the Invisible East Digital Corpus today. Get a glimpse into the daily lives of ordinary people, including workplace rivalries and boss–employee politics!
#documents #Bamiyan #medievalsky #skystorian #digitalhumanities #digitalcorpus
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We are delighted to have finished the latest tranche of translation: our #digitalcorpus now contains 334 #documents in New #Persian, enabling researchers to explore the medieval Islamicate East through stories of everyday life!
Thank you to all team members since 2020 for their work 🎉
#medievalsky
Have you seen our latest 'Document of the Month'?
Alya Karame takes a look at Qur'anic fragments, from the #Firuzkuh and #Bamiyan Papers, in our #digitalcorpus.
bit.ly/InvisibleEastQurans
#medievalsky #skystorian #quran
#ICYMI - discover more about the latest release on our #digitalcorpus!
#oxfordlifelonglearning
Hear a Jewish merchant in Ghazna (modern-day #Afghanistan), writing over 1,000 years ago — torn between his work and his family.
Explore this document on the @invisibleeast.bsky.social #digitalcorpus, where four more newly published #Judeo-Persian texts have been added... 🧵
Check out our latest thread for @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social, exploring one of the #documents in the latest release on our #digitalcorpus today!
Why not take a look yourself at bit.ly/ArabicPersianphrasebook?
This gem is one of ten newly translated literary fragments from medieval #Afghanistan — available today in our latest release on @invisibleeast.bsky.social's #digitalcorpus!
#medievalsky #bamiyanpapers #glossary #digitalhumanities
@invisibleeast.bsky.social's latest 𝘋𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩, 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘖𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦 𝘘𝘶𝘳’𝘢𝘯𝘴, explores treasures from the #Bamiyan and #Firuzkuh Papers, which feature in our #digitalcorpus.
Read Alya Karame's piece now at bit.ly/InvisibleEastQurans
#documents #qur'an
Want to find out more about the medieval Islamicate world? This fragment will be part of our next upload of #documents on the @invisibleeast.bsky.social #digitalcorpus on Thursday 3 July. Mark your calendars and come explore the unexpected stories tucked inside this unique archive from Afghanistan.
They are currently exploring an Arabic-Persian #glossary which I am told includes fruits and severed or mutilated ears... A curious combination.
Look out for fascinating #documents such as this in our next release on our #digitalcorpus this Thursday!
#medievalsky #medievalmonday #digitalhumanities
We are building a #digitalcorpus (which we call the IEDC) which currently contains over 1,200 documents in 13 languages and 9 scripts. Check it out here: www.invisible-east.org
New #documents are coming soon on the Invisible East #digitalcorpus www.invisible-east.org
The next release will include New Persian and Middle Persian documents which feature in #publications from our team members.
Watch this space!
#medievalsky #skystorian #digitalhumanities #Persian
Prof Nicholas Sims-Williams introduces our #digitalcorpus, which comprises over 1,000 #documents in 13 languages and 9 scripts: bit.ly/IEDCrelease
Why not explore the lives of ordinary people living along the #silkroads: www.invisible-east.org?
#digitalhumanities #medievalsky #skystorian
It's a beautiful Spring day in #Oxford & we wish our followers a happy Naw Rūz/Nowruz!
Nabi Saqee writes on references to #Nowruz in the #Bamiyan Papers, as well as special Nowruz traditions in #Afghanistan, in our blog: bit.ly/IENowruz
#persiannewyear #digitalcorpus #documents #medievalsky
📢 New blog: Mateen Arghandehpour takes a look at the adventures of the #Yarkand collection...
...from #documents 📜 discovered under a tree 🌳 in Western China, to photographs 📸 in London, to digital copies 👩💻 in our Invisible East #digitalcorpus .
🔗 bit.ly/Yarkandblog
#medievalsky #skystorians
That is just what happened to an unsuspecting man named Muḥammad b. ʿUmar in 12th-century #Afghanistan. The story comes from one of our newest documents 📜, #Firuzkuh 15, which has just gone live on our #digitalcorpus invisible-east.org this afternoon!
🎉 #meettheteam who have been reading, transcribing and translating documents written in #Persian! We took a moment today to celebrate their incredible achievements 💪
📅 Tomorrow sees the third release of 270 more #documents on our #digitalcorpus.
🔍 Explore now at www.invisible-east.org
#skystorians
📢 Thomas Benfey's article 'Middle Persian Documents and the Making of the Islamic Fiscal System: Problems and Prospects' is out!
🔍 You'll be able to explore these documents in the third release on our #digitalcorpus (invisible-east.org) next week! #medievalsky #skystorians #digitalhumanities
Map showing the find-spots of the documents in the Invisible East digital corpus. Map shows locations in modern day Iran, Afghanistan, central Asia and China.
Why not explore our #digitalcorpus by find-spots!
Learn more about each subset of #documents, categorised by language and location, by clicking on the place markers on the map: bit.ly/find-spots
#skystorians #documents #medievalsky
This document is one of 26 Bactrian documents live at www.invisible-east.org. Yesterday we released over 800 documents in Bactrian, #Sogdian, Middle #Persian, and #Khotanese. ✨ Do visit the #digitalcorpus, share, and send us your feedback! 10/10
📢The second release of an additional 800 #documents is now live on our #digitalcorpus!
🔎Need some help unlocking these treasures? Join us for a walk through how to search the #IEDC at bit.ly/IEDChowto
#digitalhumanities #medievalsky #sykstorians
