The
British Library is currently engaged in a program to enable digital
access to the Persian collections and has now reached the end of the
second year of a planned three-year partnership project with the Iran
Heritage Foundation and other supporters. The project involves creating
catalogue records for manuscripts which are uncatalogued, standardizing
the existing print records and creating digital files to make them
available online. At the same time we aim to digitise 50 of the most
significant manuscripts within the three year period. By the end of the
initial three-year partnership, records of nearly all acquisitions made
after 1903 will be available online. Currently, details of over 2,500
works are searchable on Fihrist, a union catalogue of some of the major
Arabic script manuscript collections in the UK, and will also be
available within the Library's own manuscripts' catalogue. - See more
at:
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/asian-and-african/persian.html#sthash.seXivBPV.dpuf
The
British Library is currently engaged in a program to enable digital
access to the Persian collections and has now reached the end of the
second year of a planned three-year partnership project with the Iran
Heritage Foundation and other supporters. The project involves creating
catalogue records for manuscripts which are uncatalogued, standardizing
the existing print records and creating digital files to make them
available online. At the same time we aim to digitise 50 of the most
significant manuscripts within the three year period. By the end of the
initial three-year partnership, records of nearly all acquisitions made
after 1903 will be available online. Currently, details of over 2,500
works are searchable on Fihrist, a union catalogue of some of the major
Arabic script manuscript collections in the UK, and will also be
available within the Library's own manuscripts' catalogue - See more at:
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/asian-and-african/persian.html#sthash.seXivBPV.dpuf
The
British Library is currently engaged in a program to enable digital
access to the Persian collections and has now reached the end of the
second year of a planned three-year partnership project with the Iran
Heritage Foundation and other supporters. The project involves creating
catalogue records for manuscripts which are uncatalogued, standardizing
the existing print records and creating digital files to make them
available online. At the same time we aim to digitise 50 of the most
significant manuscripts within the three year period. By the end of the
initial three-year partnership, records of nearly all acquisitions made
after 1903 will be available online. Currently, details of over 2,500
works are searchable on Fihrist, a union catalogue of some of the major
Arabic script manuscript collections in the UK, and will also be
available within the Library's own manuscripts' catalogue. - See more
at:
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/asian-and-african/persian.html#sthash.seXivBPV.dpuf