Unfolding Histories Within Arabic Manuscripts
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- Free
- Discussion
- Captioned (online)
- Auto-captioned
Exploring Research Seminar, Photo: Kathleen Arundell. Image on Screen: Decorative miniature from MS Arabic 748. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Join researcher Rosie Maxton for an online event introducing our Arabic manuscript collection and exploring the multi-layered histories folded within their pages.
Drawing on selected manuscripts, Rosie will focus on the unique annotations that people in various places have added over time. She will talk about what these scribbles, marks and notes in the margins can reveal about the manuscripts and how they were created and used.
The conversation will be facilitated by Dr Adrian Plau, Collections Information Analyst at Wellcome Collection. There will be a chance to ask questions during a Q&A at the end.
The event will take place on our YouTube channel and a recording will be available afterwards. It will be live-captioned in English and auto-captioned in Arabic.
Dates
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About your contributors
Rosie Maxton
Speaker
Rosie Maxton is a doctoral student in History at Somerville College, Oxford. She holds an MA in Arabic and Medieval History from St Andrews University, and an MPhil in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Cambridge. Her research explores the spread of Catholicism among Christians in the eastern Ottoman Empire during the early modern period, focusing primarily on manuscript sources in Arabic and Syriac. She has previously worked on digital catalogue records for the Arabic manuscripts of Trinity College, Cambridge and Wellcome Collection, and has taught Arabic language at the universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh.
Adrian Plau
Facilitator
Adrian Plau is Manuscript Collections Information Analyst at Wellcome Collection, and a recent Headley Fellow with the Art Fund. He holds a PhD in South Asia Studies from SOAS.