Jake Benson
@jwbenson.bsky.social
Trained bookbinder, conservator, paper marbler, codicologist, and manuscript cataloguer, and Leiden Ph.D.
Guest blog post by Pranav Prakash
on Rylands Persian MS 961: rylandscollections.com/2025/08/16/c...
on Rylands Persian MS 961: rylandscollections.com/2025/08/16/c...
Rylands BlogCelebrating Janmashtami the Persian Way: Sānval Singh and the Bhāgavat Purāṇa in Persian MS 961
A guest blog by Pranav Prakash, specialist in the comparative study of book arts, literary cultures and religions in South Asian and Persian societies
https://rylandscollections.com/2025/08/16/celebrating-janmashtami-the-persian-way-sanval-singh-and-the-bhagavat-puraṇa-in-persian-ms-961/
August 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Guest blog post by Pranav Prakash
on Rylands Persian MS 961: rylandscollections.com/2025/08/16/c...
on Rylands Persian MS 961: rylandscollections.com/2025/08/16/c...
#Papuan tribes refuse return of ritual skulls from a Netherlands museum. culturalpropertynews.org/papuan-tribe...
Papuan Tribes Refuse Return of Ritual Skulls, Citing Curses and Loss of Relevance
Efforts to return ritual skulls collected by colonial missionaries to their place of origin have faced an unexpected obstacle: the modern-day Papuan communities have firmly refused to take them back. ...
culturalpropertynews.org
January 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
#Papuan tribes refuse return of ritual skulls from a Netherlands museum. culturalpropertynews.org/papuan-tribe...
Reposted by Jake Benson
Our art trip this weekend was to Dulwich Picture Gallery for the “Beyond Ravillious” exhibition of the work of Tirzah Garwood. It is excellent and rightly popular. Garwood was a painter, did wood engraving, embroidery, marbled paper and wallpaper design, and collage before and after WW2.
January 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Our art trip this weekend was to Dulwich Picture Gallery for the “Beyond Ravillious” exhibition of the work of Tirzah Garwood. It is excellent and rightly popular. Garwood was a painter, did wood engraving, embroidery, marbled paper and wallpaper design, and collage before and after WW2.
Reposted by Jake Benson
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social
January 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social
#OpenAcess #NewRelease Eighteenth-Century Indian Muraqqaʿs: Audiences – Artists – Patrons and Collectors
Edited by Friederike Weis. With a contribution by yours truly on #Rylands Persian MS 10, an album commissioned by Swiss mercenary Antoine Polier for Sir William Jones.
brill.com/display/titl...
Edited by Friederike Weis. With a contribution by yours truly on #Rylands Persian MS 10, an album commissioned by Swiss mercenary Antoine Polier for Sir William Jones.
brill.com/display/titl...
Eighteenth-Century Indian <i>Muraqqaʿs</i>
"Eighteenth-Century Indian <i>Muraqqaʿs</i>" published on 23 Dec 2024 by Brill.
brill.com
December 28, 2024 at 1:59 PM
#OpenAcess #NewRelease Eighteenth-Century Indian Muraqqaʿs: Audiences – Artists – Patrons and Collectors
Edited by Friederike Weis. With a contribution by yours truly on #Rylands Persian MS 10, an album commissioned by Swiss mercenary Antoine Polier for Sir William Jones.
brill.com/display/titl...
Edited by Friederike Weis. With a contribution by yours truly on #Rylands Persian MS 10, an album commissioned by Swiss mercenary Antoine Polier for Sir William Jones.
brill.com/display/titl...
Reposted by Jake Benson
This Thursday (with apologies to those of you in North America): www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
The Advent of Abrī: The First Wave of Paper Marbling in the Long 16th Century (ca. 1496–1616)
Prof.dr. P.M. Sijpesteijn Prof.dr. G.R. Van den Berg Summary This dissertation examines the appearance of paper marbling in the Islamic world and its spread to Europe during the long sixteenth century...
www.universiteitleiden.nl
November 17, 2024 at 10:17 AM
This Thursday (with apologies to those of you in North America): www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...