The secrets of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library on the sixth floor of Van Pelt Library have now been revealed on the internet. A two-year grant funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities ...

ST. CATHERINE’S, EGYPT - (Reuters) - At St. Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Egypt's Mount Sinai, the silence in the library is broken only by low electrical humming, as an early manuscript is ...

A workshop on Ayurvedic manuscripts was held at the CSU Puranattukara Campus, involving 33 scholars. This event focused on manuscriptology, transliteration, and the digitization of texts, resulting in ...

A new study uses digital tools to analyze nearly 1,000 Syriac manuscripts from the British Library, focusing on how scribes and editors selected and rearranged parts of texts--a practice known as ...

Near the end of the 18th century, a Greek monk named Nikodemos was putting together a massive anthology of Byzantine texts on prayer and spirituality, which he would call The Philokalia. He lamented ...

The Vatican’s digitization efforts are focused on their one-of-a-kind historic manuscript collection as well as some of its oldest books, incunabula books printed during the earliest period of ...

The Cobra scanner in the Mainz University Library provides for circumspect digitization in accordance with stringent conservation requirements by ensuring that books need only be opened to a small ...

This 1484 copy of Tuhfat al-Ahrar was produced during the lifetime of Jāmī, considered Iran's last great mystical poet. Courtesy of the National Library of Israel The National Library of Israel is set ...

Columba Stewart says preserving Muslim texts is “part of the work of evangelism.” The shooting started right away. Columba Stewart had just touched down in Timbuktu when Islamist militants launched ...

An image of a folio (a page) from a 9th century CE Syriac manuscript from the British Library, providing a good example of the practice of excerpting, one of the non-authorial literary practices that ...