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HIDDEN STORIES: NEW APPROACHES TO THE LOCAL
AND GLOBAL HISTORY OF THE BOOK
Table of Contents
1. RECENT EVENTS
Ethiopic Book Heritage Event
Munsee Language & History
Symposium
Parchment Workshop, Austria
2. LECTURES & CONVERSATIONS
CMS Convivium - Hidden Stories
Lecture - Hebrew Books and Global
Print History
Lecture - Studying the Global Middle
Ages on Indigenous Lands
Hamburg Summer School - History of
Writing
3. PUBLICATIONS
Textiles in Manuscripts volume
Indigenous Belongings at the
Humboldt Forum
4. TECHNICAL UPDATES
Digital Hub
5. TEAM UPDATES
New Postdoc - Hagos Abhra Abay
Report on Islamic Manuscript
Preservation work in Kairouan
6. RESEARCH UPDATES
Early Hebrew Printing
News from Kathmandu, Nepals
Traditional Care Practices Video
Series
7. UPCOMING EVENTS
Lectures
Book Science Summer Seminar
Hidden Stories team members gather around scrolls and books at the Ethiopic book heritage event. LT
to RT: Eyob Derillo (British Library), Hagos Abhra Abay (U. Toronto/ UT), Jessica Lockhart (UT), Sian Meikle
(U. Toronto Libraries/ UTL), Suzanne Conklin Akbari (IAS, Princeton), David Fernández (Thomas Fisher Rare
Book Library, UTL), Gelila Tilahun (Toronto), Melissa Moreton (IAS, Princeton), and Rachel Di Cresce (UTL).
Notes from Toronto and the Celebrating Ethiopic
Book Heritage Event
The event, Celebrating Ethiopic Book Heritage, in September 2023 at
the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (University of Toronto), was a great
success, bringing together Ethiopian and Eritrean community members
from the Greater Toronto Area, book scholars, librarians, and members
of the general public. The event began with an all-day open house, where
visitors could view and handle the Ethiopian manuscripts and scrolls.
Gelila Tilahun presented briefly on the Gə’əz transcription tool (more
on the tool here), developed by a team that included many Hidden
Stories collaborators including her and Eyob Derillo (British Library), the
guest lecturer for the event. Derillo delivered a compelling and insightful
lecture on “Text and Image: Divination, Handbooks, Scrolls & Magic in
the Ethiopic Tradition” featuring the amulet scrolls in the Fisher collection,
acquired along with 26 codex manuscripts to support the Gə’əz language
program at the University of Toronto. The lecture was followed by a
reception at the Centre for Medieval Studies, generously hosted by the
Bikila Award and organised by President Tessema Mulugeta and other
community members now living in the Toronto area, complete with a
spread of Ethiopian foods and an Ethiopian coffee ceremony.
�One goal of the Hidden Stories project is to increase access to book heritage for
communities of origin, and the event was the catalyst for the digitisation of the
amulet scrolls now in the Fisher collection. The scrolls, roughly the height of a human
body, are tailor-made by debtera (priests) and are used to heal the user’s ailments
— especially women — who commission them as aids to fertility and successful
childbirth. The ten newly digitised amulet scrolls are viewable here.
Hidden Stories team members Derillo
and Moreton recorded a conversation
about Ethiopian amulet scrolls for the
Aga Khan Museum exhibition, part of
the previous Mellon-funded project,
The Book and the Silk Roads. The
amulet scrolls conversation and other
book-related videos are viewable
here, on the Books Along the Silk
Roads digital companion.
RECENT
EVENTS
Eyob Derillo (British Library) delivers a lecture on
Ethiopian magic and divination surrounded by
Ethiopian books and scrolls at the book heritage
event held at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library,
Toronto.
Tessema Mulugeta (President, Bikila Award) and
Eyob Derillo at the reception following the event.
.
Munsee Language & History Symposium Gathering on Traditional Lands
Gathering on Lunaapahkiing — traditional Lunaape lands — in Princeton, New
Jersey, Lunaapeewak (Lenape people) from Munsee-speaking tribal nations
came together in early November, 2023, along with Institute for Advanced
Study (IAS) community members, Princeton University students, staff, and
faculty for the third annual Munsee Language & History Symposium.
Speakers at the 2023 Munsee symposium focused on archival evidence
pertaining to boarding schools, as well as on public history, the role of
libraries and archives, and the development of K-12 curriculum.
Language keeper and teacher Kristin
Jacobs (Eelunaapeewi Lahkeewiit) and artist
and computer programmer Jamie Tucker
(Munsee-Delaware Nation) read Munsee
language books at the Princeton University
Library’s Special Collections during the
Munsee Language & History Symposium.
The symposium, co-hosted by the IAS and Princeton University Library
(PUL), included sessions at PUL and a Special Collections visit with maps
of traditional Lunaape lands, early books printed in Munsee (one of two
Lunaape languages), Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe), and Kanien’kéha (Mohawk)
representing the traditional languages of attendees. The majority of the
books printed in Indigenous languages were used by preachers as tools
for conversion to Christianity. The gathering was co-hosted by Princeton
University Library, which discussed the symposium sessions and Special
Collections visit in its Newsletter and videos for all sessions are viewable
here.
�One very different book was also featured in the PUL rare book
visit, a birchbark book made by Indigenous artist Chief Soloman
James of the Shawanaga First Nation in 1859 for his son, Little
Talking Bird, to learn the Anishinabe language through basic
phrases, words, and hand-painted images. The book is part of the
Hidden Stories project and our study of it builds on connections
made with Indigenous collaborators at the 2022 Birchbark
Workshop. Hidden Stories is in conversation with Indigenous artistcollaborators from Anishinabe and Munsee communities in Ontario
to connect this book with its home community and build new work
around it. Stay tuned!
Parchment Workshop in Klosterneuburg, Austria
The birchbark Anishinabe Masinaigas (Little Anishinabe
Book) in the collection of Princeton University Library, made
by Chief Soloman James of the Shawanaga First Nation in
Ontario, in 1859, for his son.
Calf, goat, hair sheep, oh my! Parchment was top of mind for all attendees at the August 2023 Craft of Parchment
workshop at the twelfth-century Augustinian monastery of Klosterneuburg, just outside Vienna, Austria. The workshop,
led by master parchmenter and book conservator Jiří Vnouček and Czech colleagues, was the final event for the Beasts
to Craft project and included Hidden Stories collaborators Melissa Moreton, Matthew Collins, Kristine Rose-Beers, and
others. The gathering was a well-balanced mix of hands-on parchment making, lectures on parchment science, and a visit
to the monastery library, rich in parchment manuscripts and unique bindings. Presenters from France, Austria, Romania,
the Czech Republic, UK, Germany, Italy, and Portugal presented on topics in parchment history and science, including the
microbiological agents succession theory (Anna Catarina Pinheiro); characterization of parchment degradation through
spectroscopy (Antonia Malissa); and studying parchment damage using Micro DSC to examine microscopic fibre structure
and collagen denaturation (Elena Badea). Many of the Hidden Stories project areas focus on parchment as a manuscript
substrate, so learning more about traditional craft practices and the newest scientific approaches to studying this global
material is essential to rethinking conservation and care issues today. See the parchment workshop program and photos
here.
Hidden Stories collaborators Kristine Rose-Beers
and Melissa Moreton use traditional washing and
scraping methods to deflesh goatskin in preparation
for stretching the skin on a frame during the parchment
workshop in Klosterneuburg, Austria.
Hidden Stories collaborator Kristine Rose-Beers
stretches a small sheepskin on a hoop frame at the
parchment workshop in Klosterneuburg, Austria.
�LECTURES & CONVERSATIONS
CMS Convivium: Voicing Hidden Stories
Hidden Stories team members Alexandra Gillespie, Suzanne Akbari, Jessica Lockhart, Rachel Di Cresce, and Melissa
Moreton participated in the September 29 Convivium at the Centre for Medieval Studies (CMS), University of Toronto.
The conversation provided an overview of various aspects of the four-year, Mellon-funded Hidden Stories project — the
community-centred methodology, interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches to research on ‘the book,’ understood as
a culturally embedded object with a web of relations and hidden stories to tell — human and non-human, local and global
— instead of a passive object of analysis. One aspect that emerged from the conversation is the complementary nature of
the team which brings a specialised skill set to the project — book history, textual studies, codicology, scientific analysis,
digital data management and tool-building, and community-led relationship building. The team and global collaborators
bring a unique perspective to the study of the global book, emerging from and connected to local communities in Eurasia,
Africa, and the Americas.
Alexandra Gillespie on Hebrew Books and the Global History of Printing
Co-PI Alexandra Gillespie presented research on early printing from a global perspective at two gatherings last fall: a
seminar “Crossroads of Communication”, hosted on the Australian Catholic University’s Rome campus in Monteverde; and
the symposium “The Jewish Book in the Early Modern World” held at the Klau Library in Cincinnati where she discussed
scientific methods for the study of early Hebrew printed books. Gillespie was also honoured to deliver the Klau Library
Feld Memorial Lecture, “Hebrew Books and the Global History of Printing.”
Gillespie’s presentations explored different aspects of how the long history of printing can transform dominant narratives
about the book and the origins of modernity, with a particular focus on the diffuse, often precarious, trans-cultural and
trans-national role of Jewish diasporic communities in the development of early printing outside of East Asia. This work
is in conversation with the Hidden Stories research on Global Judaica being carried out by Hidden Stories postdoctoral
fellow Noam Sienna.
Suzanne Akbari on Byzantine Purple, Purple Wampum, and Indigenous Belongings
Hidden Stories co-PI Suzanne Akbari delivered three lectures discussing how to approach the study of the global Middle
Ages on Indigenous lands in the Americas and with Indigenous belongings in European collections:
• “Byzantine Purple, Purple Wampum: Mediterranean Studies on Turtle Island.” Annual Riggsby Lecture on Medieval
Mediterranean History and Culture. Marco Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. 30 November 2023.
• “Byzantine Purple, Purple Wampum: The Global Middle Ages on Lunaapahkiing.” Medieval Colloquium,
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL. 9 November 2023.
• “The Optics of Land Acknowledgement in Berlin: Indigenous Belongings at the Humboldt Forum.” Weekly
Colloquium, Center for Visual Culture, Bryn Mawr College. Bryn Mawr, PA. 4 October 2023.
Hamburg Summer School: “An Interdisciplinary History of Writing”
In July 2023, Hidden Stories team member Jessica Lockhart joined an international team of specialists teaching at a twoweek international summer school, “An Interdisciplinary History of Writing” offered through the Cluster of Excellence
“Understanding Written Artefacts” at Universität Hamburg’s Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC). Graduate
student researchers from thirteen countries around the world and a broad range of disciplines came together to take a
‘global and comparative approach’ to the cutting edges of interdisciplinary study of written artefacts from across human
cultures.
�Lockhart’s module offered an introduction to global book technologies, culminating with a visit to examine manuscripts
and experience the exhibition “Written Treasures of Hamburg” at the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg.
Lockhart will be reuniting with two alumni from this summer school to represent Hidden Stories at an upcoming workshop
of the Connaught-funded Global Past Research Initiative, which will take place in Cairo in February 2024.
PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming
Textiles in Manuscripts: A Local and Global History of the Book will be published in Spring 2025 with de Gruyter. The
volume, with contributions from many Hidden Stories collaborators, comes out of the 2021 workshop on the subject and
includes essays on the textiles preserved on and between the covers of books, material evidence that offers a remarkable
glimpse into how the local production of books was connected to vibrant global trade networks from late antiquity
through the early modern period. In the volume, book historians, textile scholars, conservators, art historians, and
codicologists explore the use of textiles in Chinese, Mongolian, Syriac, Armenian, Byzantine, Arabic, Ethiopian, and Hebrew
manuscripts. The historical account they offer is both local and global, illuminating the rich web of interconnections that
link the cultural and craft centres of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Published
Suzanne Akbari’s piece on a visit with North American Indigenous belongings at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, Germany:
“Belongings: At the Humboldt Forum.” The Irving Sandler Essay, The Brooklyn Rail. October 2023.
TECHNICAL UPDATES
Hidden Stories Digital Hub - now live!
Visit the newly launched Digital Hub (https://hiddenstories.library.utoronto.ca/) for the latest materials and updates
on the Hidden Stories project. As the year progresses, the hub will continue to expand as new material, images, videos,
events, updates and newsletters are developed. The hub will be a place where our teams’ and collaborators’ scholarly
and technical developments can be widely shared in one place. The site will grow and develop over the next few years.
We’d like to thank our developer, Jarvis Tse, for his hard work in getting the hub launched. More exciting technical work is
underway and will be reported on the Digital Hub as well as our summer newsletter. Stay tuned!
�TEAM UPDATES
Hidden Stories Postdoc - Hagos Abhra Abay
‘The Hidden Stories project welcomes Dr. Hagos Abhra Abay, Research Associate, to the team. Abay is a Gə’əz philologist
and manuscript scholar, who has held positions at Mekelle University (Tigray, Ethiopia) and the University of Hamburg’s
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures. He is the founder and director of St Yared Center for Ethiopian Philology
and Manuscript Studies (Mekelle University) and the Mahlete Gumaye and Gumaye Foundations, both focused on cultural
heritage initiatives in Tigray. He joins the University of Toronto as a postdoctoral scholar, teaching Gə’əz in the Department
of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations, working with Hidden Stories on cataloguing the new collection of Ethiopian
manuscripts at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, and on a project focused on the Heritage Crises and Distribution
of Gə’əz Manuscripts of Tigray. Abay notes that, in Tigray, “There is a strong reluctance for digitisation and, at the same
time, a demand for the preservation of both the books and their stories.” We hope, through this project, that the story of
Tigrayan manuscripts will be brought forward and preserved in ways that best serve the Tigrayan community in Ethiopia
as well as the global diaspora. In conjunction with his Hidden Stories research, Abay also dedicates his time to the Textiles
in Ethiopian Manuscripts (TEM) project, a global, multidisciplinary team working to analyse textile provenance and the
commercial and the diplomatic networks that brought them to the Ethiopian highlands. Welcome Dr. Abay!
LEFT: (left to right) Hagos Abhra Abray (U. Toronto), Gelila Tilahun
(Toronto), and Eyob Derillo (British Library) gathered at the Celebrating
Ethiopic Book Heritage event.
RIGHT: Endangered Gə’əz
Manuscripts from the Monastery of
Togoga Yohannes, Tigray, Ethiopia.
Photo: Hagos Abrha Abay
Preserving Islamic Manuscript Heritage in Kairouan, Tunisia
In our last newsletter, we announced that the Hidden Stories project had partnered with Tunisia’s National Heritage
Institute and the Kairouan Manuscript Project (KMP) based out of Hamburg’s CSMC to fund the continuation of an early
career conservator internship program at the National Laboratory for the Preservation and Conservation of Parchment
and Manuscripts (NLPCPM) in Raqqada (Kairouan, Tunisia). The lab’s work focuses on collections from the library of the
Great Mosque of Kairouan, which preserve records of one of the world’s earliest Muslim scholastic communities alongside
some of the world’s oldest Islamic manuscripts. The manuscripts face urgent conservation challenges, and the early
career conservator internship program trains Tunisian conservation students in the care of these historic manuscripts and
documents.
�Conservation intern Nada Ben Bechria at the National Laboratory for the Preservation
and Conservation of Parchment and Manuscripts in Raqqada, Tunisia, repairs a paper
manuscript leaf. Photo credit: NLPCPM.
We’re happy to report that the interns have achieved several objectives in their training, such as repairing damaged
manuscripts on paper, and they now take part in most important works of conservation of manuscripts on paper at the
lab. The program’s next goals involve additional intern training in binding and the conservation of parchment, which is the
earliest material used in Islamic manuscripts (before paper was introduced in the 8th century).
Ms. Manel Rammeh, the head of the NLPCPM in Raqqada, notes that the interns’ work has become increasingly essential
over time. The Hidden Stories team are proud to support the continued work of these interns in partnership with Tunisia’s
National Heritage Institute and the KMP.
The Arba’ah Turim - Earliest
Printed Book in the Near East
RESEARCH
UPDATES
While in Princeton for the Munsee symposium,
the Hidden Stories team was able to take
advantage of time at the Princeton University
Library Special Collections, and look at their
copy of the Arba’ah Turim (the important
Jewish halakhic legal treatise, The Four
Divisions) printed in Hebrew in Constantinople
in 1493 by the printer-brothers David and
Samuel ibn Nahmias, Jews expelled from
Spain in 1492. The Hebrew printing — the
earliest known in either southeast Europe or
the Ottoman Empire — is of special interest to
team members James D. Sargan (University
of Georgia, Athens) who is working on
watermark and paper research and Hidden
Stories Global Judaica postdoctoral fellow
Noam Sienna (University of Toronto) who
will be researching tthe history of the ibn
Nahmias press through other imprints at the
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (UT), aiming
to contextualise these early Hebrew printed
books within the history of the early modern
Mediterranean world.
Left to Right: Hidden Stories team members
Alexandra Gillespie, Rachel Di Cresce, Melissa
Moreton, and Jessica Lockhart visit with
Princeton University Special Collections
librarian Gabriel Swift (2nd from right) and the
two-volume set of the early Hebrew printing
of the Arba’ah Turim (Constantinople, 1493) at
the PUL Special Collections.
�News from Kathmandu, Nepal
Work on stabilising and preserving Himalayan manuscript
culture has been ongoing at the Āśā Saphūkuthi / Āśā
Archives (ASK) in Kathmandu, Nepal. The efforts, led by
Dr. Bidur Bhattarai, were begun with the support of the
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC,
University of Hamburg) and are continuing under the current
Mellon-funded Hidden Stories project. The Āśā Saphūkuthi
holds over 9,000 Buddhist and Hindu manuscripts dating
between the 15th and the 20th centuries, containing works
on poetics, astronomy, astrology, medicine, and ritual, in
Sanskrit, Nepali, Newari, and Maithili. Pothi-style manuscripts
are cleaned, stabilised, and archivally housed. Paper
manuscripts and rolled palm-leaf manuscripts are wrapped
in archival lokta paper and cloth wrappers or stored in
archival phase (storage) boxes. In 2023, archive staff learned
of 270 disordered manuscript leaves and 25 rolled palm-leaf
texts, which the team cleaned, sorted back into their original
manuscript grouping, and stablised for future study. The
local team, who have been trained in this work, will continue
to sort these scattered leaves, which may come from as
many as 750 different manuscripts. They have also cleaned
400 bundles (approximately 1900 paper manuscript sheets),
much of which has been digitised.
Pothi-style Nepalese paper manuscript leaves are cleaned, sorted,
and wrapped in archival lokta paper and unbleached cotton cloth
for storage - work carried out by local teams of trained archive
technicians at the Āśā Saphūkuthi (Āśā Archives) in Kathmandu.
Photo: Bidur Bhattarai
Local high school students gather in front of the Āśā Saphūkuthi (Āśā Archives), Kathmandu, after
a visit to learn about efforts there to preserve their Nepalese manuscript heritage. Photo: Bidur
Bhattarai
Workshops and demonstrations at the Āśā Saphūkuthi welcome local students and community members to learn more
about the manuscript preservation work taking place there. Bhattarai notes “keeping connected with locals or local
communities is a vital part of the project.” The archive is a place for storing and sharing Nepalese manuscript heritage as
well as a trusted community partner that local book owners rely on to help safeguard their own books. Locals regularly
bring their manuscripts and documents for inspection to the lab, where they can be cleaned and archival storage boxes
produced for them. For example, an important Buddhist manuscript of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā written on
nīlapatra (blue-black paper) in gold ink was brought to the archive and is the subject of this short video, made with the
kind permission of the owner.
�Traditional Care Practices Video Series
Traditional care practices of books, such as exposing
manuscripts to air and sun once a year, greeting them in the
language of the community who made them, or wrapping
them appropriately in textiles or skin carrying cases to
keep them together and keep out dirt and insects, are all
ways in which communities of origin have for thousands
of years cared for and preserved their cultural heritage of
the book. The Hidden Stories project is keenly interested
in these practices and aims to share them with a broad
audience of public readers, scholars and researchers, book
conservators, and care professionals who look after these
books in GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums).
With the goal of integrating traditional care practices into the
non-traditional GLAM spaces and conservation labs, project
collaborators hope to both improve the care of books and
integrate ritual into these spaces, to better connect these
book relations to the communities of origin who created
and traditionally cared for them. To this end, Hidden Stories
plans a series of publicly available videos with scholars from
communities of origin, discussing the traditional care of this
heritage. The first video, with Eyob Derillo and Ethiopian
manuscripts at the Fisher Library (see image), has already
been filmed, with more to follow over the coming years.
Ethiopian manuscript scholar Eyob Derillo and videographer Chris
Monette filming part of the video series on traditional care practices, with
Ethiopian manuscripts at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
Lectures
February 9, 2024 (2:30 pm EST) - CMS Convivium, Toronto
Hidden Stories postdoc Noam Sienna will present his research on “The
Mishnah MS A: Rethinking the Beginnings of Jewish Book Culture” at the
upcoming Convivium hosted by the Centre for Medieval Studies at the
University of Toronto. The conversation will discuss research on a rare two-leaf
fragment from the Cairo Genizah which may date from as early as the ninth
century and is part of the Friedberg Collection at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book
Library, Toronto. RSVP for in-person attendance or register for the virtual
event here.
UPCOMING
EVENTS
14-16 March - MAA, University of Notre Dame
Suzanne Akbari presenting at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of
America: “Mapping the Interconnected Medieval World: Diasporic Communities
and Their Books.” University of Notre Dame (South Bend, Indiana)
26 March, Aris Lecture, University of Minnesota Center for Premodern Studies
Suzanne Akbari will deliver her talk, “Mapping the Interconnected Medieval
World: Diasporic Communities and Their Books” for the Rutherford Aris
Memorial Lecture in Medieval Communication.
Exhibitions
Through March 3, 2024 - Ethiopia Exhibitions in NYC and Baltimore
If you have a chance to see the Ethiopia-related exhibitions at the Walters
Art Museum in Baltimore (“Ethiopia at the Crossroads”) and the “Africa and
Byzantium” exhibition at the Met in New York City, these are both highly
recommended. Hidden Stories co-PI Suzanne Akbari, as well as collaborator
Eyob Derillo have chapters in the Met exhibition catalogue. Both exhibitions are
up through March 3, 2024.
�Some of the book science tools and research subfields that will be explored at the Summer Seminar:
Dino-Lite digital microscopy, microCT imaging with Dragonfly, and parchment characterization with
collagen nanometronomy.
Book Science Summer Seminar
In collaboration with the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, the Hidden Stories team will be hosting a summer seminar,
June 5-7, 2024, titled Book Science. The purpose of this three-day seminar is to train participants in low-barrier, noninvasive scientific imaging and analytic techniques appropriate for the study of manuscripts and printed books from a
variety of global book traditions. Participants will gain a practical introduction to the current state of the field of what we
can broadly call ‘book science’ –– a range of interdisciplinary collaborations and overlaps between specialists in book
history, palaeography, conservation science, forensic chemistry, archaeometry, engineering, molecular biology, and other
disciplines.
Participants will learn about non-invasive approaches useful for damage assessments, materials analysis, provenance
study, and the recovery of lost text, ranging from analyses that might safely be performed (with permission!) from the
reading room of a rare book library, to those requiring the planning of larger collaborations. They will also learn how
to plan a larger collaboration when needed in ways that minimise risk and maintain good relationships, including our
relationships with the book we wish to study.
Examples used in the seminar will be drawn from books in a variety of traditions represented in holdings of the
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. Speakers will represent a variety of perspectives involved in these interdisciplinary
collaborations.
The deadline for applications is March 29, 2024.
Summer Seminar info and application are here.
�Credits: Rachel Di Cresce, Jessica Lockhart, Melissa Moreton, Suzanne Akbari, and Alexandra Gillespie.
Designer: Azure Pham
�
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Title
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Palm leaf manuscript from Bali, date unknown (Don Taylor Collection)
IIIF Item Metadata
UUID
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
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IIIF Collection Metadata
UUID
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Dublin Core
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Title
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Choir Book from Italy, ca. 1400 (Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 09700)
IIIF Item Metadata
UUID
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Dublin Core
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Title
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IIIF Collection Metadata
UUID
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Dublin Core
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Arba’ah Turim from Constantinople, 1493 (Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Friedberg 00131)
IIIF Item Metadata
UUID
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
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IIIF Collection Metadata
UUID
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Sermon Book Cover from Mexico, 18th century (University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections, BX1756.V65 S47 1570)
IIIF Item Metadata
UUID
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
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IIIF Collection Metadata
UUID
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Dublin Core
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Title
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Bhagavad Gita from Kashmir, 17th-19th century (Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 01106)
IIIF Item Metadata
UUID
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