Really Important: tell the British Library which manuscripts you want to see...
Juan Garces is inviting suggestions for manuscripts to be digitised here. The obvious answer to this question is: all of them! We all want access to free digital resources, but creating them is...
View ArticleFrom my diary
Very busy this week with work-related stuff; too much so, to do anything useful! The fragments of Philip of Side are coming along nicely. The translator is doing his usual excellent job and ferreting...
View ArticleSympathy for Hercules
An Augean day today. I’ve received an A4 envelope containing a print-off of the translation of the 18 Coptic fragments of Eusebius Gospel Problems and Solutions (Quaestiones ad Stephanum et Marinum)...
View ArticleDon’t let readers photograph rare books – let thieves steal them instead
An interesting story in the Guardian a few days ago highlights the criminal foolishness of the British Library policies. These prohibit legitimate readers from photographing pages. A Cambridge...
View Article284 Greek manuscripts online at the British Library
I learn from here via here that Juan Garces, the go-ahead curator of Greek manuscripts at the British Library, has got 284 manuscripts online. It’s well worth browsing the four pages of the list....
View ArticleA 12th century trilingual Arabic, Greek and Latin psalter
A correspondent tells me about this post at Arab Orthodoxy: On the website of the British Library they’ve posted images of a Psalter dated to 1153 written in parallel Greek, Latin, and Arabic. The...
View ArticleBritish Library to digitise all its Greek manuscripts
An announcement on the British Library manuscripts blog here tells us: Phase two of the British Library’s project to digitise all of its ca. 1,000 Greek manuscripts is now well under way. This phase —...
View ArticleA list of the new manuscripts online at the British Library site
At the British Library manuscripts blog, Julian Harrison is paying attention, and well done to him. In response to comments like those here, he’s today posted a list of the 25 newly uploaded...
View ArticleThe British Library — whoring the national library?
They say a leopard cannot change its spots, and too often, this is so. Over the last few years I have documented various outrageous examples of greed and cynicism by the British Library. The BL is,...
View ArticleBritish Library to place 250,000 books online — thanks to Google
It seems that the BL will allow Google to place 250,000 books published between 1700 and 1870 online. See AFP article here. All the works will be available for text search download and reading on the...
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