The Bosnian Manuscript Ingathering Project: Document Registration Form

Bosnian Manuscript Ingathering Project

Document Registration Form

Please use this reporting form to provide information on the current whereabouts of reproductions/copies of materials (books, documents, manuscripts, photo archives and other unique or rare items) originally held by institutions in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The information you provide will help librarians and archivists at the various Bosnian institutions destroyed or damaged by enemy fire to locate these copies and will facilitate their efforts to reconstruct their country's endangered cultural heritage.

Directions: There are two methods for entering data below: some fields require you to check boxes, others require you to enter text. To check a box, position your mouse in it and click; to uncheck, click again. To enter text, position your mouse in a text window and click; then begin typing.

Note that the text windows have infinite capacity: as you type in, the text disappears from the left of the field. You may backtrack by using the left-arrow key, and go forward by using the right-arrow key; similarly, you can go up and down within a multiline window by using the up-arrow and down-arrow keys.

You may scroll up and down the form, and enter the information in any order. You need not fill out all the fields. When you have finished entering the information, please click the button at the end of the form, and it will be sent automatically to us.

The documents with which we are concerned are, of course, written in many different languages and scripts, all of which have associated transcription systems well known to scholars, librarians, and archivists. Unfortunately, we do not have the capability of accomodating those transcription systems in this medium. Still, the information you enter will be read by knowledgeable people who will, in all likelihood, be able to figure out all but the most ambiguous entries. Hence, please type in the information in the most ``obvious'' way, and only use special signs (or annotations) to prevent severe ambiguity.

If you intend to fill out multiple forms that have some overlapping information (e.g. several different documents at the same institution), the form allows you to indicate that this is one of a series of related forms. You need not enter names, addresses, and so forth repeatedly. Please make sure, however, that you send the forms in the proper order, since missing fields will be retrieved from the immediately preceding form sent by the same Internet address.

In case you are reporting on a large collection of such items and cannot supply an item-by-item description, please let us know something about the location, size and contents of the collections and whether some form of finding aid (catalogue, checklist, inventory) exists. You may contact: Andras Riedlmayer, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Fine Arts Library, Harvard University, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge MA 02138 USA. (tel.: 617 495-3372; fax: 617-496-4889; e-mail: riedlmay@fas.harvard.edu).

Thank you. Your input helps fight the destruction of memory.

If this form is a continuation of a previously submitted form, please check here.

Please enter your name and address:

Name:
Street address:
City:
State/province:
Postal/ZIP code:
Country:
Telephone:
Fax:
E-mail:

Location of reproduction:

Institution
Individual
Address (if yourself, please check and skip to the next paragraph):
- Name of contact:
- Institution:
- Street address:
- City:
- State/province:
- Postal/ZIP code:
- Country:
- Telephone:
- Fax:
- E-mail:

Format of reproduction/facsimile:

Microfilm
Microfiche
Photocopy
Photograph
Magnetic tape
Optical disk
Other (please specify):

It reproduces the original material:

In its entirety
In part (please specify):

Format of the original from which it was taken:

Bound manuscript
Archival document
Printed book/pamphlet/journal
Other printed formats (e.g. posters, prints, ephemera)
Other manuscript formats (e.g. architectural drawings)
Photograph

Title (if known) or description of item:

Author(s) (if known):

More than three authors (please enter first three above)

Language(s) used in the item:

Serbo-Croat-Bosnian
Church Slavonic
Latin
Ottoman Turkish
Arabic
Persian
Ladino
Hebrew
Other (please specify):

Alphabet(s) used in the item:

Latin
Cyrillic/Bosancica
Glagolitic
Arabic
Hebrew
Other (please specify):

For published items:

Place of publication:
Publisher or issuing agency:
Date(s) of publication:
Edition (1st, 2nd, etc.):
Name(s) of editor(s):
For a single volume, no. of pages:
For journals or multi-volume works, volumes and years held:
Other description:
Known location(s) of the original:

For manuscript material:

Date of manuscript:
Scribe (if known):
Location of original manuscript:
Catalogue number of original (if known):
No. of volumes/leaves:
Incipit (first few words/lines of text):
Explicit (last few words/lines of text):
Colophon (if available):
Other description:
Has the item been published? If yes, by whom and where?

For photographs or visual archives:

Approximate number of individual photographs/negatives:
Subject(s) covered (e.g. architecture, folklore, historical events):
Sites/locations covered:
Date(s) the photos were taken (if known):
Name(s) of photographer(s) (if known):
Current format of images (check all that apply):
- Slides/transparencies
- Photographic prints
- Negatives
- Color
- Black/white
- Other (please specify):

Please use the following field for comments and additional information, including (but not limited to) the names and addresses of other people we should be contacting regarding this project, and ways in which we might improve this form.

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