vendredi 6 décembre 2013

Ancient bibles and rare texts online

VATICAN CITY - Agence France-Presse

The four-year project by Vatican and Oxford University will eventually create an online archive of 1.5 million pages. AP photo
The four-year project by Vatican and Oxford University will eventually create an online archive of 1.5 million pages. AP photo
A treasure trove of ancient bibles and rare Greek and Hebrew texts are being made available to the public through a website set up by the Vatican and Oxford University. A priceless 1455 copy of the Gutenberg Bible, the first major book to be printed with movable type in the West and one of fewer than 50 surviving copies, went online Tuesday in the first stage of the project between the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV) and Oxford’s Bodleian library.

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