SIMS / Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures Collaborative Fellowship. Take advantage of the expertise and manuscript resources at Penn Libraries and CSMC’s expertise in the Humanities, material analysis and/or Computer Science. Apply by Friday, May 1, 2026.
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📢 Call for applicants!
We are delighted to announce the SIMS-CSMC Fellowship, set up with our colleagues @sims-mss.bsky.social. It supports innovative approaches to the study of manuscripts and includes time at SIMS in Philadelphia and at CSMC in Hamburg.
Apply by 1 May 2026!
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In partnership with the Heritage Council, the #ChesterBeatty is pleased to offer a 12-month internship in book and paper conservation: ow.ly/LJNb50XlIKo #ConservationInternship #BookandPaperConservation #DublinJobs
A collection of historical bookbinding models made by Anna Embree.
Euchologion (Mich. Ms. 130), Sumela Monastery, Turkey, dated 1553 CE.
A Short but Comprehensive System of the Geography of the World by Nathaniel Dwight, 1808.
Visit the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room to see fascinating items from library collections. "Suave Mechanicals: A Celebration of Nine Volumes on the Art and History of Bookbinding" features rare books representing topics from the Suave Mechanicals series. #SpecialCollections https://myumi.ch/3REQz
Khālid and his close followers discussing the preservation of his library. Created by Naser Nassan Agha, 2025.
CBL Ar 3036 lower cover. © Chester Beatty, CBL Ar 3036, CC BY – 4.0.
In 19th-century Damascus, the library of Khālid al-Naqshabandī is a centre for scholarly exchange. Preserving it requires legal ingenuity from his heirs, until it is finally scattered worldwide. In our PhD research series, Joud Nassan Agha tells its story:
uhh.de/csmc-agha
Ms. 3406, Süleyman Efendi’s endowment deed on folio 1r. Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna, ms. 3406 © 2023 by AMS Historica is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Rawda El-Hajji visiting the Church of Our Lady of Buda Castle, Budapest. © Ashraf Sarip
Once a hub of Ottoman culture, Süleyman Efendi’s library was scattered by conquest. In our PhD Research Series, Rawda El-Hajji traces these manuscripts, showing how they help reconstruct lost intellectual communities and reveal the fate of cultural heritage in times of conflict:
uhh.de/csmc-el-hajji
Evyn Kropf, curator of our Islamic Manuscripts Collection, lent her expertise to describe three manuscripts from the Sutro Collection at the California State Library. Read about them in this @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social blog post: myumi.ch/Z26kP
“Ed Fabre, a leader in the Black Action Movement (BAM) on the University of Michigan campus, talks with a striker outside Rackham Auditorium where black students demand a 10-per cent black enrollment by 1973 and UM President Robben W. Fleming announced late 3/27 the school will commit its financial resources to achieve at least a 10-per cent black student enrollment by the 1973-74 school year. UPI Telephoto. 1970.”
“Ed Fabre, a leader in the Black Action Movement (BAM) on the University of Michigan campus, talks with a striker outside Rackham Auditorium where black students demand a 10-per cent black enrollment by 1973”
#Labadie Photograph Collection LPF.2036 (27 March 1970)
quod.lib.umich.edu/s/scl/x-lpf....
California State Library, Sutro Collection, M000120. Image Courtesy of California State Library Sutro Collection
Drawing on the expertise of Dr. Evyn Kropf from our DS Advisory Council, our Graduate Fellow @rosemccandless.bsky.social blogs about new descriptions of three Islamic manuscripts owned by the California State Library soon making their way into the DS Catalog. digital-scriptorium.org/20250327-csl...
