Dear followers and researchers, we apologise for the delay in bringing back the “Al-Mufahris Manuscript Search” bot, and thank you for your patience. We are pleased to announce that the bot is available again. In this update we made the following changes:
In the database
- New and updated catalogues from Turkey, Yemen and more
- Yemen alone: more than 32,000 new records
- New fields on the catalogue card and fuller physical descriptions
- Duplicate records cleaned up
In the app
- Advanced search in 22 fields, plus “total search” across every field
- A catalogue card showing up to 57 fields
- Export results to Excel
- Bookmarks in 5 folders, each with its own sheet in the Excel file
- Copy a record’s data with one tap
- Share the card as an image — available to everyone
- Report an error in any record — available to everyone
Access to manuscript files
- A button to download the file from Telegram where it is available
- A button to go to the download site for external sources
- “Available in our archive”: send your request with one tap; this button appears when the file is available
We hope the intensive effort has paid off and that it earns more of your satisfaction and approval.
