The Invisible East programme is developing a Digital Corpus that contains searchable data on 500-1,000 documents and local texts from the wider Islamicate East dating to between the 8th and 13th centuries C.E.
Digital corpus
Invisible East has developed a Digital Corpus that contains searchable data on ~1,000 documents and local texts from the wider Islamicate East dating to between the 8th and 13th centuries CE. These include: meta-data in all instances, and in a smaller set, full transcriptions, translations, and commentary. The texts vary in type, including documents (for example sales deeds, marriage contracts, land survey reports, tax receipts, debt acknowledgements, administrative and personal letters), literary and poetic fragments, texts of a historical, religious or legal nature, and other miscellanea. The Digital Corpus is searchable by administrative, military and legal titles, offices and processes; agricultural terms, currencies and denominations; documentation terms; geographic administrative units; markings; measurement units; and religions. All data will be publicly accessible in accordance with ERC requirements.
