to digitally document ancient biblical manuscripts in archives, monastic libraries, and other repositories and make them available to scholars everywhere via the internet. It’s a daunting task.
Using ultraviolet (UV) photography, Kessel revealed a lost Bible chapter hidden beneath layers of writing in an ancient manuscript. This practice of reusing parchment was common in medieval times ...
Imagine, then, how precious centuries-old manuscripts are ... the earliest versions of the Greek Bible. When the Christian monks were unwilling to loan the ancient scrolls to Tischendorf for ...
Oxford professor arrested for theft of ancient Bible fragments Christianity explained ... find the chapter beneath three layers of text on a manuscript that had been housed in the Vatican Library ...
Its library preserves hundreds of manuscripts collected during medieval ... translation of a page from a medical treatise by the ancient Greco-Roman physician known as Galen.
The Bible says he also ordered that a titulus ... correct on their intellectual abilities and contributions either. Ancient manuscripts reveal that scribes greatly improved the style and words ...
In a new exhibit opening Tuesday, the Museum of the Bible ... the manuscript in 1997 in a cave near one of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas that were carved into a mountain in ancient times and ...
The Huntington has acquired a print of Jesus in the Mount of Olives that had been pasted inside its Gutenberg Bible for 400 ...
"The Moutier-Grandval Bible really is a masterpiece of scribal and artistic endeavour," said Claire Breay, head of ancient, mediaeval and early modern manuscripts at the British Library.