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October 18, 2014

Another Greek update: Forty-six more manuscripts online!

Filed under: British Library,Manuscripts — Patrick Durusau @ 8:25 pm

Another Greek update: Forty-six more manuscripts online! by Sarah J. Biggs.

From the post:

It’s time for a monthly progress report on our Greek Manuscripts Digitisation Project, generously funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and many others, including the A. G. Leventis Foundation, Sam Fogg, the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation, the Thriplow Charitable Trust, and the Friends of the British Library. There are some very exciting items in this batch, most notably the famous Codex Crippsianus(Burney MS 95), the most important manuscript for the text of the Minor Attic Orators; Egerton MS 942, a very fine copy of Demosthenes; a 19th-century poem and prose narrative on the Greek Revolution (Add MS 35072); a number of collections of 16th- and 17th-century complimentary verses in Greek and Latin dedicated to members of the Royal Family; and an exciting array of classical and patristic texts.

Texts that helped to shape the world we experience today. As did others but Greek texts played a special role in European history.

You can find ways to support the Greek Digitization project here.

I prefer, ahem, other material and for that you can consult:

The Latest, Greatest, Up-To-Datest Giant List of Digitised Manuscripts Hyperlinks.

Which list 1111 (eleventy-one-one?) manuscripts. Quite impressive.

Do consider supporting the British Library in this project and others. Some profess interest in sharing our common heritage. The British Library is sharing our common heritage. Your choice.

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