{"id":4634,"date":"2023-03-16T13:28:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T13:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=4634"},"modified":"2023-03-16T13:30:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T13:30:55","slug":"timbuktu-quran-manuscript-fragments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2023\/03\/16\/timbuktu-quran-manuscript-fragments\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbuktu: Qur&#8217;an Manuscript Fragments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hmml.org\/stories\/series-fragments-incomplete-manuscripts-in-the-timbuktu-collections\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ali Diakite and Paul Naylor, HMML, Why so Many Fragments? Incomplete Manuscripts in the Timbuktu Collections, 16 Mar 2023<\/a>  This is really interesting. Do check out the whole article.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;A large amount of the manuscripts digitized in Timbuktu, Mali, that we at HMML have cataloged are <a href=\"https:\/\/hmmlschool.org\/lexicon\/145434\/\">fragments<\/a>\u2014missing pages at the beginning, the end, or the middle of the text, or sometimes all of the above. In total, 38 percent of the 7,537 items in the <a href=\"https:\/\/hmml.org\/collections\/repositories\/mali\/aboubacar-ben-said-library\/\">Aboubacar ben Said Library<\/a> are fragments. The figure for the <a href=\"https:\/\/hmml.org\/collections\/repositories\/mali\/biblioth%C3%A8que-de-manuscrits-al-imam-essayouti\/\">Biblioth\u00e8que de Manuscrits al-Imam Essayouti<\/a> (2,696 manuscripts) is 43 percent. Of the 7,751 manuscripts we have cataloged so far in the <a href=\"https:\/\/hmml.org\/collections\/repositories\/mali\/mamma-haidara-library\/\">Mamma Haidara Library<\/a>, 28 percent are fragments; however, as fragments are typically more challenging to identify and catalog, the number is likely to rise as we tackle more of this large collection.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Diakite and Paul Naylor, HMML, Why so Many Fragments? Incomplete Manuscripts in the Timbuktu Collections, 16 Mar 2023 This is really interesting. Do check out the whole article. &#8220;A large amount of the manuscripts digitized in Timbuktu, Mali, that we at HMML have cataloged are fragments\u2014missing pages at the beginning, the end, or the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245,243,235,247,246,244,159,5,248,181],"tags":[251,249,88,89],"class_list":["post-4634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","category-digital-quran","category-history","category-libraries","category-mali","category-manuscripts","category-quran","category-research","category-timbuktu","category-west-africa","tag-archives","tag-mali","tag-quran","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4636,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634\/revisions\/4636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}