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FIHRIST (Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World)
LiveFamily: Islamic manuscript culture · Custodian: FIHRIST consortium (UK research libraries)
The flagship UK union catalogue for Islamicate manuscripts: paratextual certificates (ijaza/sama'), physical description, provenance, and colophon dates at scale, joined here to the Damascene audition-certificate corpus (Mu'jam al-sama'at al-Dimashqiyya) and the MESTAP Ottoman mecmua-content project.
Citing conjectures (16)
- The khatma U-curve
- The quinion follows the ream
- The hired pen pads the page
- The hollow ijaza swells
- Stolen waqf books go quiet
- The paper ladder
- The watermark front
- Finished on Friday
- Plague churns the flyleaf
- The Muwatta flips once
- Hafs is an Ottoman fact
- Bound together, taught together
- Mecmuas remember the gathering
- Sanaa's slow shelf
- India copies what Istanbul forgot
- The oasis professorate