Search
Search Constraints
Start Over Filtering by: Geographic Coverage North Africa ✖ Remove constraint Geographic Coverage: North Africa
1 - 2 of 2
Search Results
-
- Alternative Title
- MS Leaf on Vellum from a Qur'an, North Africa
- Subject
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Qurʼan
- Language
- ara
- Date created
- 900s
- Rights Statement
- No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
- Resource Type
- Text
- Identifier
- Shelf Mark: MS Victoria 1992-037-1
- Extent
- 1 leaf ; 22.5 x 16.5 cm
- Geographic Coverage
- North Africa
- Coordinates
- 32.95337, 9.97559
- Additional Physical Characteristics
- Written In Dark Brown Kufic Script, Vowels In Red Dots. Text: Surah 54, vv. 17-32 [from Maggs Bros. export license] Mounted between two pieces of cardboard, using paper hinges. Clear plastic in cut-out of top piece of cardboard allows viewing. Leaf has several holes plus...
- Physical Repository
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection
- Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
- Provenance
- Bruce and Dorothy Brown Collection, officially transferred to the University of Victoria on June 27th, 1996. Earlier provenance: Acquired through Maggs Bros. Rare Books, London, April 1992, who gave as the ultimate origin of the fragment ‘North Africa’.
- Provider
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre
- manuscripts (documents) and fragments (object portions)
- Archival Item Identifier
- Accession Number: 1992-037, Item: 1
- Fonds Title
- Bruce and Dorothy Brown collection
- Fonds Identifier
- SC017
- Is Referenced By
- Special Collections Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/ms-victoria-1992-037-1.phpFragmentarium: https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-35elArchival Finding Aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/bruce-and-dorothy-brown-collection
- Date Digitized
- 2012-02-23
- Transcript
- Description and Transcription by Sohrab Mosahebi as part of coursework for a manuscript studies class with Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin, June 2022 available here: https://www.uvic.ca/library/assets/docs/mosahebi_quran_and_shahnameh.pdf
- Technical Note
- Metadata by KD.
-
- Subject
- Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force, Military history, World War (1914-1918), and World War (1939-1945)
- Contributor
- Bell, Chris and Dunlap, Clarence R., b. 1908
- Language
- eng
- Date created
- March 1, 1983 to April 21, 1983
- Rights Statement
- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
- Resource Type
- Sound
- Extent
- 8 sound recordings (MP3)
- Geographic Coverage
- British Columbia--Haida Gwaii and North Africa
- Coordinates
- 53.00403, -132.03425 and 32.95337, 9.97559
- Additional Physical Characteristics
- Two original sound tape reels (ca. 365 min.) : 1 7/8 ips, 2 track, mono. (nos. 21-22) ; 4 sound cassette copies : standard, mono. (nos. 40-43) in Special Collections.
- Physical Repository
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection
- Canadian Military Oral History Collection
- Provider
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre
- reminiscences, sound recordings, oral histories (literary genre), and interviews
- Archival Item Identifier
- DCR_253
- Fonds Title
- Reginald Herbert Roy fonds
- Fonds Identifier
- SC104
- Is Referenced By
- Special Collections Finding Aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/reginald-herbert-roy-fonds
- Date Digitized
- 2011-09-15
- Technical Note
- Digital sound recording in .wav format at 16 bits and 44 kHz. In .mp3 format at 56 kbps and 24 kHz. Digitized by JF, technical and cataloguing metadata provided by JF and JP. Transferred from audio reel to audio cassette between 1987-1997. Interview migrated to digital...