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Grants for Cataloging Eastern Christian Manuscripts
Patheos.com
February 4, 2013
By James F. McGrath
The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
(http://hmmlorientalia.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/cataloging-grants)
announces grants available for cataloging work in its eastern
Christian collections in Arabic/Garšūnī, Armenian, Old Church
Slavonic, and Syriac. These grants are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation.
Many of these collections are greatly understudied and catalogers thus
have prime opportunities for new and further research, as well as the
satisfaction of making a contribution to our knowledge of the
literature and of manuscript traditions.
The grants support full-time cataloging work for periods of one to six
months, and are renewable. The work may be done anywhere; residence at
HMML is not expected. Catalogers will be expected to prepare
text-level records for, ideally, 75 manuscripts per month (with these
numbers adjusted for genres with multiple texts per manuscript, such
as hagiography and homilies). A sample record may be viewed here. A
brief report summarizing completed work (numbers, notable finds, etc.)
will be sent twice a month to HMML's lead cataloger of eastern
Christian manuscripts, Adam McCollum. Completed records will be
submitted on a monthly basis.
The grants offer a stipend of $2500/month, with the added benefit of
copies of two digitized manuscripts from HMML's collections each month
at no cost, which may be used for personal research. Those who wish to
apply for a cataloging grant may send their CV and a cover letter to
Adam McCollum ([email protected]), to whom also any informal
enquiries may be sent off-list.
From: Baghdasarian
Patheos.com
February 4, 2013
By James F. McGrath
The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
(http://hmmlorientalia.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/cataloging-grants)
announces grants available for cataloging work in its eastern
Christian collections in Arabic/Garšūnī, Armenian, Old Church
Slavonic, and Syriac. These grants are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation.
Many of these collections are greatly understudied and catalogers thus
have prime opportunities for new and further research, as well as the
satisfaction of making a contribution to our knowledge of the
literature and of manuscript traditions.
The grants support full-time cataloging work for periods of one to six
months, and are renewable. The work may be done anywhere; residence at
HMML is not expected. Catalogers will be expected to prepare
text-level records for, ideally, 75 manuscripts per month (with these
numbers adjusted for genres with multiple texts per manuscript, such
as hagiography and homilies). A sample record may be viewed here. A
brief report summarizing completed work (numbers, notable finds, etc.)
will be sent twice a month to HMML's lead cataloger of eastern
Christian manuscripts, Adam McCollum. Completed records will be
submitted on a monthly basis.
The grants offer a stipend of $2500/month, with the added benefit of
copies of two digitized manuscripts from HMML's collections each month
at no cost, which may be used for personal research. Those who wish to
apply for a cataloging grant may send their CV and a cover letter to
Adam McCollum ([email protected]), to whom also any informal
enquiries may be sent off-list.
From: Baghdasarian