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Personal profile
Overview
I currently catalogue roughly 1,000 Persian manuscripts held in the John Rylands Research Institute and Library collections, develop metadata records in TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) for digitized volumes uploaded to Manchester Digital Collections, and also contribute records 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 Aug 2022
Areas 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
- Sigillography
- Paper Currency
Keywords
- Manuscripts
- Persian Literature
- Cataloguing
- Metadata
- Persianate World
- Islamicate World
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Khalilullah “Padishah of the Pen: Royal Scribe and Ambassador of Shah ‘Abbas and Ibrahim ‘Adil Shah II
Benson, J. (Translator), Maleki, K. (Translator) & Ghelichkhani, H., 1 Jun 2020, Iran and the Deccan: Persianate Art, Culture, and Talent in Circulation. Overton, K. (ed.). Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, p. 367–399 33 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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The Qit‘at-i Khushkhatt Album: Authenticity and Provenance
Benson, J., 1 Jun 2020, Iran and the Deccan: Persianate Art, Culture, and Talent in Circulation, 1400–1700. Overton, K. (ed.). Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, p. 337–365 29 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Vaqfnama of Ibrahim Qutb Shah in the ‘Abd al-Qadir Qur’an Manuscript Endowed to the Shrine of Imam Riza
Benson, J. (Translator), 1 Jun 2020, Iran and the Deccan: Persianate Art, Culture, and Talent in Circulation, 1400–1700. Overton, K. (ed.). Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, p. 223–226 4 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Curious Colors of Currency: Security Marbling on Financial Instruments During the Long Eighteenth Century
Benson, J., 31 Dec 2019, In: American Journal of Numismatics. 31, p. 277–325, Plates 37–27 60 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Deccani Seals and Scribal Notations: Sources for the Study of Indo-Persian Book Arts and Collecting (c. 1400-1680)
Overton, K. & Benson, J., May 2019, The Empires of the Near East and India: Source Studies of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal Literate Communities. Khafipour, H. (ed.). Columbia University Press, p. 554–596 42 p. 3Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review