This is an exciting two-year opportunity for the right person.  The Wellcome Library has manuscripts and printed books in something like 42 Asian languages.  The largest collections are the Sanskrit, Hindi, Arabic and Persian, almost all puchased in South Asia.

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From: Angela McShane <A.McShane@wellcome.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 at 07:13
Subject: Job: Wellcome Collection Manuscript Collections Analyst for non-European language (and related scripts)

 

Dear Dominik,

 

Hello! I hope you are well and thriving! We are finally getting our act together to try and make all our non-European collections more accessible and better known. I wanted to bring your attention to this new role we are advertising. Do you think you could circulate it around your networks? It would be an ideal post-doc opportunity:

 

·          https://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?PageType=JobDetails&partnerid=30160&siteid=5284&jobid=233127#jobDetails=233127_5284

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·         Essential Skills:

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High level of knowledge and experience of using TEI for manuscript description

·         Excellent skills in manuscript codicology and bibliographical research

·         Language and palaeographical skills in at least one non-European language (and related scripts) represented in the Wellcome manuscript collections e.g. Arabic, Sanskrit, Chinese, Persian, Ottoman Turkish, Hindi

 

All best,

 

Angela

 

Dr Angela McShane | Head of Research Development

Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK
T: +44 (0)20 7611 8501

E: a.mcshane@wellcome.ac.uk

 

 

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