"Manuscripta Islamica Rossica" - a new electronic resource of Arabic, Persian and Turkic manuscripts from the collections of Russian repositories and libraries
Ilya Zaytsev (1), Tatiana Anikeeva (2)
(1) State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow
(2) Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
"Manuscripta Islamica Rossica" - a new electronic resource of Arabic, Persian and Turkic manuscripts from the collections of Russian repositories and libraries
Ilya Zaytsev (1), Tatiana Anikeeva (2)
(1) State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow
(2) Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Abstract
The paper discusses the current state of digitizing Islamic manuscript in Russia and the gradualbuilding of the digital collection “Manuscripta Islamica Rossica”. It outlines some of thechallenges and the benefits from providing digital access to these resources.
Keywords
[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences
