amir abu mohammad ‘imadi ghazvini was one of the most prominent poets of the 6th century a.h who was very famous in his lifetime, but we don’t know much about his life and have not yet obtained his divan. the author, in present study, has tried to eradicate on the life of this great poet of the seljuk era introducing several sources, sometimes new, depending on ‘imadi’s published or unpublished...

1 The authors acknowledge Saint-Petersburg State University for a research grant 2.37.175.2014. Abstract The mediaeval Arabic manuscripts are not only valuable artifacts but they also represent one of the major sources of scholar information in the field of Oriental Studies. This paper discusses the methods of Arabic Manuscripts Digitization. Over the last fifteen years a lot of Arabic manuscri...

Walter Skeat published his critical edition of William Langland’s 14 century alliterative poem, Piers Plowman, in 1886. In preparation for this he located forty-five manuscripts, and to compare dialects, he published excerpts from each of these. This paper does three statistical analyses using these excerpts, each of which mimics a task he did in writing his critical edition. First, he combined...

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Instruction with primary sources in cultural heritage institutions has shifted dramatically from show-and-tell tours of collections to hands-on learning opportunities. However, how students engage sources, and the effectiveness primary-source instruction, remains an emerging area study. There is a growing body professional literature online resources supporting but there are few studies impact ...