The Two-Way
Originally published on Thu April 12, 2012 9:22 am
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Biblical and antiquities scholars will soon have a new resource at their fingertips, as Oxford University's Bodleian Libraries and the Vatican Library launch a plan to digitize millions of pages of rare ancient texts. The scanned pages will be available online.
From Italy, Sylvia Poggioli filed this report for NPR's Newscast:
"The Vatican and Oxford plan to digitize 1.5 million pages of Greek manuscripts, 15th century printed books and Hebrew texts and early printed books."
"Two thirds of the material will come from the Vatican apostolic library; the remainder from the Bodleian."
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