Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Vatican, Oxford put ancient manuscripts online

Msgr. Cesare Pasini, prefect of the Vatican Apostolic Library, shows a 10th century digitalized Bible during an interview with The Associated Press , at the Apostolic Library, at the Vatican, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013. The Vatican Library and Oxford University's Bodleian Library put the first of 1.5 million pages of ancient manuscripts online Tuesday, bringing their full two-volume Gutenberg Bibles and other precious documents to a global audience for the first time. The two libraries in 2012 announced a four-year project to digitize some of the most important works in their collections of Hebrew manuscripts, Greek manuscripts and early printed books. The 2 million pound ($3.3 million) project is being funded by the Polonsky Foundation, which aims to democratize access to information. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) VATICAN CITY (AP) — Access to the Gutenberg Bible and other ancient manuscripts has just gotten easier.








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