{"id":49,"date":"2015-10-23T14:48:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T21:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/darc\/?p=49"},"modified":"2015-10-25T06:27:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T13:27:52","slug":"arth-460a-learning-interpretation-research-skills-arabic-botany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/darc\/2015\/10\/23\/arth-460a-learning-interpretation-research-skills-arabic-botany\/","title":{"rendered":"ARTH 460A | Learning Interpretation Research Skills &#8211; Arabic Botany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Oct. 22 class, we looked at how to use Leiden University&#8217;s illustrated Arabic botanical manuscript (Or. 289) for mobile digital interpretation at the Devonian Botanic Garden. The text is from al-Natili&#8217;s translation\/adaptation of Dioscorides&#8217;s De Materia Medica, and the manuscript has been <a href=\"https:\/\/socrates.leidenuniv.nl\/R\/?func=search-simple&amp;local_base=gen01-disc\">digitized<\/a>. We correlated plants to be used at the DBG and folios from the manuscript with the detailed manuscript description in Jan Just Witkam&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islamicmanuscripts.info\/inventories\/leiden\/or01000.pdf\">Inventory of Collections of Oriental Manuscripts<\/a>, which identifies what plants are illustrated and their folio numbers, and an English translation of De Materia Medica &#8211; Tess Anne Osbaldeston&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panaceavera.com\/demateriaindex.html\">De Materia Medica: Being An Herbal With Many Other Medicinal Materials Written In Greek In The First Century Of The Common Era Pedanius Dioscorides<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The class came up with a work plan and chose to divide into teams of two and assembled the correlated materials onto a shared Google docs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Oct. 22 class, we looked at how to use Leiden University&#8217;s illustrated Arabic botanical manuscript (Or. 289) for mobile digital interpretation at the Devonian Botanic Garden. The text is from al-Natili&#8217;s translation\/adaptation of Dioscorides&#8217;s De Materia Medica, and the manuscript has been digitized. We correlated plants to be used at the DBG and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/darc\/2015\/10\/23\/arth-460a-learning-interpretation-research-skills-arabic-botany\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ARTH 460A | Learning Interpretation Research Skills &#8211; Arabic Botany&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3823,1413880],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-evolving-the-botanic-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/darc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/darc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/darc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/darc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/darc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/darc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/darc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/darc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/darc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/darc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}