Lessons

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  Quires and quire signatures

  Lesson 3 A codex is produced by binding together a number of quires (pl. karārīs, sg kurrās). A qui...

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  The Demise of the Professional Copyist

  Lesson 25 This lesson explores the twilight of Arabic manuscript production in the early twentieth c...

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  Authenticity and the Shāhnāma (Persian)

  Lesson 18 The Shāhnāma or Book of Kings by Manṣūr Abū al-Qāsim Firdawsī Ṭūsī narrates the legendary ...