نگاهي نو به فهرست نويسي نسخ خطي و پيوند ميان شيوه هاي سنتي و نو

A New Look at the Manuscripts Cataloguing, and, the relationship between the Old and Modern Methods

The Islamic Manuscripts are the treasures of scientific and cultural heritage left behind by the former scholars of the Islamic countries. The identification of these manuscripts through catalogues is a necessity determined by the fact that they arc widely distributed, here and there, in the book-sUsagesl,of the great libraries and museums, as well as, on the shelves of personal libraries and among the collections of different scholars all over the world. Making and publishing the catalogue of manuscripts preserved in a library or in an institute enables the scholars to find the book they look for; thus, the field of manuscript-based studies becomes a meaningful project. The modern method of cataloguing the books of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance era was seemingly introduced in the first half of the twentieth century, when the primary edition of the rules of writing a descriptive manuscript catalogue was published by the Library of Congress, in 1954. Later on, due to its several deficiencies, the rules, as method, were not welcome