Small Forms in a Long Malay Romance: The Berlin Manuscript of Hikayat Dewa Mandu

Gastbeitrag von Dr. Kris Ramlan  “Seven of you, and I alone.” With this playful challenge, Angkaran Dewa, companion to the hero of a Malay romance, invites the princess’s attendants to a contest in verse. The princess smiles and urges them to answer. Dang Areka Warna draws her bow across the rebab, a bowed string instrument, […]

Old Tibetan Prints, New Digital Access: PechaBridge and the Digital Collections at Stabi

Gastbeitrag von Dr. Nico Mothes, Dirk Tilger and Theresa Scherling Digitization makes historical Tibetan pecha prints visible online, but visibility alone does not make their content readable, searchable, or reusable for research. PechaBridge is an open-source pipeline connecting digitized materials from the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin with layout analysis, Tibetan OCR, metadata, and review tools. From […]