Mr Jake Benson
Research Associate
Overview
I am currently cataloguing roughly 1,000 Persian manuscripts that are held in the John Rylands Library collections, developing metadata records in TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) for digitised volumes available in Manchester Digital Collections, and also contributing them to Fihrist, the UK’s Union catalogue for manuscripts from the Islamicate world. In addition, I am finishing my doctoral dissertation on 16th-century paper marbling at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Leiden University.
External positions
PhD Candidate, Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS)
1 May 2016 → 31 Dec 2020Areas of expertise
- PK Indo-Iranian - New Persian, Modern Persian, Persian manuscripts
- PI Oriental languages and literatures - Ottoman Turkish, Ottoman manuscripts
- PJ Semitic - Arabic, Arabic manuscripts
- Z004 Books. Writing. Paleography - Manuscript Studies, Codicology, Decorated Papers, Islamic Bookbinding
Keywords
- Manuscripts, Persian Literature, Cataloguing, Metadata, Persianate World, Islamicate World
Related information
Publications
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review