HASTAC Commons | Jake Benson | Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/jakebenson14850/activity/ Activity feed for Jake Benson. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:39:11 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 34482551cb4c740463d13c1e34b21eef Jake Benson started the topic Monogram in the forum Arabic script manuscripts https://hcommons.org/groups/arabic-script-manuscripts/forum/topic/monogram/ Sun, 15 Jun 2025 11:56:17 +0000 This curious seal impression of a monogram of the letter L on Rylands Persian MS 24, formerly owned by de Sacy:
https://image.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/iiif/MS-PERSIAN-00024-000-00005.jp2/1476,253,592,711/full/0/default.jpg

Should anyone know of other examples, much less have any insight as to who it belonged to, I would be grateful to…[Read more]

]]> 0 76b39e9c3ced2ef3b3a67d42a4380d18 Jake Benson's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1919666/ Thu, 05 Jun 2025 11:34:12 +0000 0 e63f1f6fc67ae8cd2bd5dc000364711d Jake Benson replied to the topic Seal impression in the forum Arabic script manuscripts https://hcommons.org/groups/arabic-script-manuscripts/forum/topic/seal-impression/?view=all#post-91713 Fri, 07 Feb 2025 20:50:07 +0000 Thank you @Muntazir786! Yes, I also wondered if it could read Muhammad, but the final consonant could read either dāl or rā. However, it also throws the title patterning off. Mahmud al-Dawlah?  I’ve tried searching many combinations but come up with nothing so far in the Index to Titles (1798–1885) derived from the Alqābnāmah or any other sources.

]]> 0 5fe81ecf60a160bdec31c4a85b226127 Jake Benson started the topic Seal impression in the forum Arabic script manuscripts https://hcommons.org/groups/arabic-script-manuscripts/forum/topic/seal-impression/ Thu, 06 Feb 2025 19:11:37 +0000 Seal impression on Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Ms 091.4 AL41m, folio 1a. intaglio-carved in three nasta‘līq script lines, single-ruled, with palm trees and crescent moons at midpoints on the exterior with pairs of crouched lions on opposite sides.
It possibly reads, from bottom up:
۱۲۸۰
لسان السلطان وفا شعار
الملـــــــــــ…[Read more]

]]> 0 d2ce704078ce935a70ae490fde502e02 Jake Benson's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897709/ Mon, 02 Sep 2024 08:12:28 +0000 0 135a83330c94d946d9c3c10e269d1755 Jake Benson started the topic The Iranian Diaspora in Southeast Asia: Old Manuscript, New Perspectives in the discussion Persian and Persianate Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/persian-and-persianate-studies/forum/topic/the-iranian-diaspora-in-southeast-asia-old-manuscript-new-perspectives-4/ Wed, 01 May 2024 13:39:49 +0000 https://www.leidenspecialcollectionsblog.nl/articles/persians-of-java-re-examining-the-cultural-context-of-indonesia

]]> 0 a4436688b7c2939181feb91bffa21325 Jake Benson started the topic The Iranian Diaspora in Southeast Asia: Old Manuscript, New Perspectives in the discussion Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/islamicate-studies/forum/topic/the-iranian-diaspora-in-southeast-asia-old-manuscript-new-perspectives-3/ Wed, 01 May 2024 13:39:48 +0000 https://www.leidenspecialcollectionsblog.nl/articles/persians-of-java-re-examining-the-cultural-context-of-indonesia

]]> 0 e624fd049f8159b9f149fca8afaf4ea7 Jake Benson started the topic The Iranian Diaspora in Southeast Asia: Old Manuscript, New Perspectives in the discussion Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/digital-middle-east-islamic-studies/forum/topic/the-iranian-diaspora-in-southeast-asia-old-manuscript-new-perspectives-2/ Wed, 01 May 2024 13:39:46 +0000 https://www.leidenspecialcollectionsblog.nl/articles/persians-of-java-re-examining-the-cultural-context-of-indonesia

]]> 0 b3539e18debb4c8784c61bb03294d610 Jake Benson started the topic The Iranian Diaspora in Southeast Asia: Old Manuscript, New Perspectives in the discussion Arabic script manuscripts https://hcommons.org/groups/arabic-script-manuscripts/forum/topic/the-iranian-diaspora-in-southeast-asia-old-manuscript-new-perspectives/ Wed, 01 May 2024 13:39:44 +0000 https://www.leidenspecialcollectionsblog.nl/articles/persians-of-java-re-examining-the-cultural-context-of-indonesia

]]> 0 acc0353f31c8fc6f4762dbd3bd33f364 Jake Benson started the topic Tricky insignia in the discussion Arabic script manuscripts https://hcommons.org/groups/arabic-script-manuscripts/forum/topic/tricky-insignia/ Wed, 01 May 2024 13:35:05 +0000 Greetings all, this insignia-like inscription dated 1187 AH appears on a number of Rylands volumes, but deciphering it all proves tricky. Any ideas?

]]> 0 8f7c1b115788fc0dfd3105e5212af4d1 Jake Benson replied to the topic Another enigmatic seal impression. in the discussion Arabic script manuscripts https://hcommons.org/groups/arabic-script-manuscripts/forum/topic/another-enigmatic-seal-impression/?view=all#post-67901 Sat, 29 Apr 2023 08:30:33 +0000 Thank you, Muntazir!

]]> 0 7492f117d1a741549f912567c6120b3e Jake Benson started the topic Another enigmatic seal impression. in the discussion Arabic script manuscripts https://hcommons.org/groups/arabic-script-manuscripts/forum/topic/another-enigmatic-seal-impression/ Fri, 28 Apr 2023 11:10:43 +0000 From Rylands Persian MS 942, fol. 1a, intaglio-carved in three stacked horizonal nasta‘līq lines , double-ruled,with the name of a former owner or associate, possibly Shihābī, bearing either a regnal or abbreviated year 20. 12 × 15 mm.

Perhaps,  Shihābī read from bottom-up? Then Bī… [something] and sarī at top? Any comments greatly appreciated.

]]> 0 5c25dc1d19115f776c0dd306fcdeee9e Jake Benson started the topic The Archived Chester Beatty Library Islamic Seals Database in the discussion Persian and Persianate Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/persian-and-persianate-studies/forum/topic/the-archived-chester-beatty-library-islamic-seals-database-5/ Sat, 22 Apr 2023 09:21:37 +0000 The Archived Chester Beatty Library Islamic Seals Database:
Screen Shots and Tips For Access 
Jake Benson, Research Associate for Persian Manuscripts
John Rylands Research Institute and Library
University of Manchester
22 April 2023
Since the Chester Beatty Library reformatted its website in 2019, it regrettably removed the Islamic Seal Database,…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca2f613e1cc2b04f8e812eb33872e0e9 Jake Benson started the topic The Archived Chester Beatty Library Islamic Seals Database in the discussion Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/islamicate-studies/forum/topic/the-archived-chester-beatty-library-islamic-seals-database-4/ Sat, 22 Apr 2023 09:21:35 +0000 The Archived Chester Beatty Library Islamic Seals Database:
Screen Shots and Tips For Access 
Jake Benson, Research Associate for Persian Manuscripts
John Rylands Research Institute and Library
University of Manchester
22 April 2023
Since the Chester Beatty Library reformatted its website in 2019, it regrettably removed the Islamic Seal Database,…[Read more]

]]> 0 5eb839e4aa3d26b2411d9a0ed356e78c Jake Benson started the topic The Archived Chester Beatty Library Islamic Seals Database in the discussion Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/digital-middle-east-islamic-studies/forum/topic/the-archived-chester-beatty-library-islamic-seals-database-3/ Sat, 22 Apr 2023 09:21:34 +0000 The Archived Chester Beatty Library Islamic Seals Database:
Screen Shots and Tips For Access 
Jake Benson, Research Associate for Persian Manuscripts
John Rylands Research Institute and Library
University of Manchester
22 April 2023
Since the Chester Beatty Library reformatted its website in 2019, it regrettably removed the Islamic Seal Database,…[Read more]

]]> 0 53ad4f747887b917c0e99364286ff70c Jake Benson started the topic The Archived Chester Beatty Library Islamic Seals Database in the discussion Christian Arabic Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/christian-arabic-studies/forum/topic/the-archived-chester-beatty-library-islamic-seals-database-2/ Sat, 22 Apr 2023 09:21:32 +0000 The Archived Chester Beatty Library Islamic Seals Database:
Screen Shots and Tips For Access 
Jake Benson, Research Associate for Persian Manuscripts
John Rylands Research Institute and Library
University of Manchester
22 April 2023
Since the Chester Beatty Library reformatted its website in 2019, it regrettably removed the Islamic Seal Database,…[Read more]

]]> 0 336e8e788e64e2ddb10d7b0245556b7a Jake Benson started the topic The Archived Chester Beatty Library Islamic Seals Database in the discussion Arabic script manuscripts https://hcommons.org/groups/arabic-script-manuscripts/forum/topic/the-archived-chester-beatty-library-islamic-seals-database/ Sat, 22 Apr 2023 09:21:29 +0000 The Archived Chester Beatty Library Islamic Seals Database:
Screen Shots and Tips For Access 
Jake Benson, Research Associate for Persian Manuscripts
John Rylands Research Institute and Library
University of Manchester
22 April 2023
Since the Chester Beatty Library reformatted its website in 2019, it regrettably removed the Islamic Seal Database,…[Read more]

]]> 0 adcdf98142dc490d7c231b1a9336f31b Jake Benson started the topic "Taking the Past into the Future": Hybrid Symposium, 11–12 May 2023 in the discussion Global DH https://hcommons.org/groups/global-dh/forum/topic/taking-the-past-into-the-future-hybrid-symposium-11-12-may-2023-4/ Fri, 14 Apr 2023 15:13:42 +0000 Taking the Past into the Future: Studying, Preserving, and Understanding Islamicate Manuscripts
Thursday 11 May, 10am-5pm and Friday 12 May 10am-4.30pm BST
University of Edinburgh
This two-day symposium hosted between the Centre for Research Collections (CRC) and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) will feature…[Read more]

]]> 0 ebaeab0167f5df90f699d2b9b7fb2f88 Jake Benson started the topic "Taking the Past into the Future": Hybrid Symposium, 11–12 May 2023 in the discussion Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/digital-middle-east-islamic-studies/forum/topic/taking-the-past-into-the-future-hybrid-symposium-11-12-may-2023-3/ Fri, 14 Apr 2023 15:13:40 +0000 Taking the Past into the Future: Studying, Preserving, and Understanding Islamicate Manuscripts
Thursday 11 May, 10am-5pm and Friday 12 May 10am-4.30pm BST
University of Edinburgh
This two-day symposium hosted between the Centre for Research Collections (CRC) and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) will feature…[Read more]

]]> 0 f963a2373c3c2b6f74411615fa640af5 Jake Benson started the topic "Taking the Past into the Future": Hybrid Symposium, 11–12 May 2023 in the discussion Christian Arabic Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/christian-arabic-studies/forum/topic/taking-the-past-into-the-future-hybrid-symposium-11-12-may-2023-2/ Fri, 14 Apr 2023 15:13:38 +0000 Taking the Past into the Future: Studying, Preserving, and Understanding Islamicate Manuscripts
Thursday 11 May, 10am-5pm and Friday 12 May 10am-4.30pm BST
University of Edinburgh
This two-day symposium hosted between the Centre for Research Collections (CRC) and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) will feature…[Read more]

]]> 0 acfd75d328cb404889ffb0e0bc5806e6 Jake Benson started the topic "Taking the Past into the Future": Hybrid Symposium, 11–12 May 2023 in the discussion Arabic script manuscripts https://hcommons.org/groups/arabic-script-manuscripts/forum/topic/taking-the-past-into-the-future-hybrid-symposium-11-12-may-2023/ Fri, 14 Apr 2023 15:13:35 +0000 Taking the Past into the Future: Studying, Preserving, and Understanding Islamicate Manuscripts
Thursday 11 May, 10am-5pm and Friday 12 May 10am-4.30pm BST
University of Edinburgh
This two-day symposium hosted between the Centre for Research Collections (CRC) and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) will feature…[Read more]

]]> 0 050d03648c092d90a63ca71ad58651ac Jake Benson replied to the topic Tricky seal impression in the discussion Arabic script manuscripts https://hcommons.org/groups/arabic-script-manuscripts/forum/topic/tricky-seal-impression/?view=all#post-67211 Fri, 14 Apr 2023 15:00:46 +0000 Thank you! Mehdi Qorbani also kindly read the same in his Twitter reply here.

]]> 0 0c1341fd75968f236b340a6696385cea Jake Benson started the topic Tricky seal impression in the discussion Arabic script manuscripts https://hcommons.org/groups/arabic-script-manuscripts/forum/topic/tricky-seal-impression/ Wed, 15 Mar 2023 11:32:22 +0000 If you’ve a moment, please see this seal impression. Any ideas?
مهر صاحبه ؟؟؟؟؟ الدین محمد

]]> 0 4168dc89d616684715ea66d2dee80127 Jake Benson started the topic Group for Arabic script manuscripts in the discussion Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/digital-middle-east-islamic-studies/forum/topic/group-for-arabic-script-manuscripts-2/ Sat, 21 Jan 2023 13:42:34 +0000 Greetings All,

For those interested, please join our new group devoted to Arabic script manuscripts, to share images, consult with colleagues on codicology, readings, deciphering notations and seal impressions, etc. https://hcommons.org/groups/arabic-script-manuscripts/

]]> 0 7c4f5a84e94b0c5d29b9d4f12b54b831 Jake Benson started the topic Group for Arabic script manuscripts in the discussion Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/islamicate-studies/forum/topic/group-for-arabic-script-manuscripts/ Sat, 21 Jan 2023 13:42:25 +0000 Greetings All,

For those interested, please join our new group devoted to Arabic script manuscripts, to share images, consult with colleagues on codicology, readings, deciphering notations and seal impressions, etc. https://hcommons.org/groups/arabic-script-manuscripts/

]]> 0 cf7d5c6c803be70e5cb61ef71fca61ca Jake Benson started the topic Unusual calligram? in the discussion Arabic script manuscripts https://hcommons.org/groups/arabic-script-manuscripts/forum/topic/unusual-calligram/ Fri, 13 Jan 2023 13:43:09 +0000 Greetings everyone,

Rylands Persian MS 27, a Bahāristān of Jāmī once held in the Mughal library bears this unsual marking on folio 1b, adjacent to the header. Have any of you encountered such a marking previously? I wonder if it might possibly be some sort of stylized, undotted Yā Kabīkaj formula? What do you think?

]]> 0 0b34d8143c0858894739a8217feadeb9 Jake Benson started the topic Petition in the discussion Arabic script manuscripts https://hcommons.org/groups/arabic-script-manuscripts/forum/topic/petition/ Sat, 31 Dec 2022 02:58:54 +0000 https://chng.it/JYytQb2mCF

]]> 0 10f07ed92175ad0ba1bdee9aacb249cf Jake Benson started the topic OCR in the discussion Arabic script manuscripts https://hcommons.org/groups/arabic-script-manuscripts/forum/topic/ocr/ Fri, 30 Dec 2022 16:35:50 +0000 Terrific news for non-Latin script specialists: Archive.org will take advantage of new advancements in OCR to reprocess printed multi-script manuscript catalogues, which currently misinterpret non-Latin scripts as gibberish. They just reprocessed one volume of Rieu’s British Museum catalogue https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008986313 and…[Read more]

]]> 0 056c1278b333da2ff01b9cb60c7b38dd Jake Benson started the topic Welcome! in the discussion Arabic script manuscripts https://hcommons.org/groups/arabic-script-manuscripts/forum/topic/welcome-37/ Fri, 30 Dec 2022 16:16:45 +0000 Welcome to everyone interested in deciphering challenging examples of handwritten Arabic script, inclusive of all languages, as well as associated topics spanning everything from codicology and materials, seal impressions, as well as early printing methods. I currently catalogue Persian manuscripts held in the John Rylands Research Institute and…[Read more]

]]> 0 5aca26db86bb6bcfeefec3476c687d95 Jake Benson created the site Arabic script manuscripts https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827830/ Fri, 30 Dec 2022 13:10:36 +0000 0 86a709e13531692c60f2c7c03e75e3b7 Jake Benson edited the post Greetings! in the group Arabic script manuscripts https://arabicscriptmanuscripts.hcommons.org/2022/12/30/hello-world/ Fri, 30 Dec 2022 13:10:35 +0000 Welcome to a new space for sharing anything and everything regarding Arabic script written heritage, inclusive of all languages and variantions, and related codicological topics.

Ottoman Turkish berāt […]

]]> a1a4a372357e65b4978d3b2a76c8c75a Jake Benson deposited The Raja of Mahmudabad Palace Library Project in the group Persian and Persianate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1688359/ Sun, 24 May 2020 16:25:36 +0000 Over the course of the last year the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML) and the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park (Roshan Institute-UMD) have begun collaborating with the Raja of Mahmudabad family on the preservation of their important manuscript collection. The project will help protect the…[Read more]

]]> 0 e84430e7f776d83dbdc401d374576dd9 Jake Benson deposited The Raja of Mahmudabad Palace Library Project in the group Library & Information Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1688358/ Sun, 24 May 2020 16:25:29 +0000 Over the course of the last year the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML) and the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park (Roshan Institute-UMD) have begun collaborating with the Raja of Mahmudabad family on the preservation of their important manuscript collection. The project will help protect the…[Read more]

]]> 0 926925c5a73c36ba984d76ae7299ad9a Jake Benson deposited The Raja of Mahmudabad Palace Library Project in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1688357/ Sun, 24 May 2020 16:25:28 +0000 Over the course of the last year the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML) and the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park (Roshan Institute-UMD) have begun collaborating with the Raja of Mahmudabad family on the preservation of their important manuscript collection. The project will help protect the…[Read more]

]]> 0 afa9249c1a98e3d7fc376357beccca3b Jake Benson deposited The Raja of Mahmudabad Palace Library Project in the group Archives https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1688356/ Sun, 24 May 2020 16:25:21 +0000 Over the course of the last year the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML) and the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park (Roshan Institute-UMD) have begun collaborating with the Raja of Mahmudabad family on the preservation of their important manuscript collection. The project will help protect the…[Read more]

]]> 0 756705d82590fab9fa3ed2ea25e5eefd Jake Benson deposited The Raja of Mahmudabad Palace Library Project https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1688022/ Wed, 20 May 2020 21:11:02 +0000 Over the course of the last year the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
(HMML) and the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of
Maryland, College Park (Roshan Institute-UMD) have begun collaborating
with the Raja of Mahmudabad family on the preservation of their important
manuscript collection. The project will help protect…[Read more]

]]> 0 959f56f6e0d4bccf46621cc9f58de885 Jake Benson's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1680251/ Sat, 07 Mar 2020 19:41:08 +0000 0 623c5f81817b4acd291ecacda23c96b6 Jake Benson's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1664130/ Sat, 21 Sep 2019 20:49:47 +0000 0