Three million ancient Arabic manuscripts are jealously preserved in libraries, in conservation institutions and in private homes. A non-consulted document is like a dead document—its fate is related to its consultation by users. The access to this kind of document is very difficult because of two main reasons: first, the fragile state of the manuscripts that make them easily degradable, necessa...

This paper presents the Register of Early Modern Slovenian Manuscripts, which includesmanuscripts from the 17th and 18th centuries that have been overlooked by scholars focused onprinted books from the same era. The Register attempts to address this gap in Slovenianmanuscript studies by describing these unknown and forgotten early modern manuscripts withfacsimiles, an index of b...

All manuscripts must be submitted for review electronically. The only accepted fi le format is PDF. Any other format and manuscripts received in hard-copy form wil l not be processed. Manuscripts for Oral Presentation should not exceed six (6) pages in length. To permit blind review, manuscripts should not inc lude the author names nor affi l iations. All manuscripts should be formatted as c lo...

1. Introduction. Illustrated manuscripts may be analysed in terms of both their texts and their illustrations. While statistical techniques have long been applied to the textual analysis of manuscripts, e.g., Lebart and Salem (1994), no corresponding pictorial analysis can be found in the art history literature. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that the field can benefit from statistical...

A major limitation of conventional microelectronics is the inability to perform pattern recognition at levels comparable with human perception. Software-based solutions of pattern recognition suffer from the delays required for transferring data between a memory and processor while hardware based solutions lack sufficient adaptability to continuously classify new patterns. Recently a new nanosc...

This collection was compiled by Elizabeth W. Hayward, a former Ursuline Academy student. It contains correspondence, notes, clippings, and printed material relating to the Ursuline Academy convent fire in 1834 and a reunion of Ursuline Academy graduates in 1878. The correspondence series is the largest and includes unpublished firsthand accounts of the convent fire and riots. Materials date fro...