What's new in the E-CORPUS digital library

From E-Corpus Lettre/newsletter n° 9  : 02/2011

What's new in the E-CORPUS digital library

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• Arabic, Georgian and Syriac manuscripts from St. Catherine's Monastery Mount Sinai (Egypt) are now available on e-corpus. This work carried out by the Université Catholique de Louvain within the framework of project Manumed (digitization of microfilm); detailed records are being captured with titles and incipits etc.
  • Arabic MSS : 202 manuscripts / 50 987 images
  • Syriac MSS : 130 manuscripts / 27806 images
  • Georgian MSS : 12 manuscripts / 3099 images

TOTAL : 344 manuscripts ; 81 892 images 

•  Hebrew manuscripts from the Library of Nîmes, Carré d'Art
  • 19 mss, 3 372 pages accessible on e-corpus
  • see web site (still in progress)

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• Documents on the history of Egypt: E-corpus just received a specific endowment from a patron to digitize 50 000 pages of documents on the history of Egypt (from the pharaonic periode to the present); if you have documents or collections that you would like digitized within this context you can contact us. These documents will be available on e-corpus and in the "virtual library of the history of Egypt" managed by e-corpus.

• Arabic manuscripts from father Jean-Jospeh-Léandre Bargès (1810-1896) (bibliothèque dioscésaine de Marseille, Le Mistral)

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In the process of digitization and soon to be on  E-CORPUS

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• Persian and Arabic manuscripts from the Aga Khan Museum (Geneva)

• The digitization of a series of antique photographs - Aleppo. Cooperation IFPO
  • Camille Hammad collection, studio photographer in Aleppo from 1933 to 1946 

• Antique documents from the library of Apt (Vaucluse) (in particular an eighteenth century manuscript on Egypt)

see the document description and images 

• Documents from the Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme (MMSH) in Aix en Provence and from IREMAM

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New collaborations with E-CORPUS

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The CCL (through MANUMED and E-CORPUS) passed agreements permitting the digitization and/or dissemination of scanned documents with:

• The IFPO (Institut français du Proche-Orient :Damascus, Beirut, Amman, Erbil...)
  • 100 000 images and metadata will be produced and available on E-corpus within 12 months