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The Minassian Collection of Quranic Manuscripts

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The Center for Digital Scholarship is pleased to announce the publication of The Minassian Collection of Quranic Manuscripts. The collection, published out of the Brown Digital Repository (BDR), features 200 Quranic manuscript folios dating from the 9th to the 16th centuries. The flowering of Arabic calligraphy has its origins in the efforts of Muslim societies … The Minassian Collection of Quranic Manuscripts

The Brown-Francis Family Papers featured in The Providence Journal

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Today’s Providence Journal features an article about The Brown-Francis Family Papers, a collection which the Center for Digital Scholarship is in the process of scanning. The papers provide a unique perspective on early American life, and detail the activities of a colonial Rhode Island merchant family. 1,140 objects have been scanned to date, and all … The Brown-Francis Family Papers featured in The Providence Journal