Digitised Arabic papyri collection from the University of Utah’s Library

Attention Medieval Middle East Scholars:

 

I wanted to alert you that the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriot Library has finished a 6 year project digitizing and uploading their Arabic papyri collection. “The Arabic Papyrus, Parchment & Paper Collection is the largest of its kind in the United States, containing 770 Arabic papyrus documents, 1300 Arabic paper documents, and several pieces on parchment. The collection was acquired by Prof. Aziz Suriyal Atiya, founder of the Middle East Center and the Middle East Library. A large number of pieces date to the period between 700 and 850 CE. The collection includes a significant number of documents from the pre-Ottoman period and thus offers unique source material on the political, economic, religious and intellectual life of Egypt during the first two centuries of Islamic rule and the period up to Ottoman domination.” (Library web site)

 

Here is the direct link to the digitized collection:

 

 

Please note that the Rare Books Division’s managing curator, Luise Poulton,

 

 

would like to hear of your findings from the collection and will add your name to the metadata and to the list of search terms.  Any publications will also be cited. For publication permission, please contact Luise.

 

Yours,

 

Kathryn Hain

 

PhD Candidate, History

 

University of Utah

 

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Evyn Kropf | Islamic Manuscripts Project Cataloguer University Library Area Programs | M117B Hatcher Library North The University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190

(734) 764-1220 | ekropf@umich.edu