Medieval History
The British Library has digitised over a quarter of its Greek manuscripts (284 volumes) for the first time and made them freely available online at www.bl.uk/manuscripts thanks to a generous grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
The website provides researchers with access to high quality digital images of a major part of the British Library?s Greek manuscripts collection, supported by enhanced metadata which enables users to search using key words.
Scot McKendrick, Head of History and Classical Studies at the British Library, said, ?This website offers everyone, wherever they may be in the world, the opportunity to engage for the first time with over 100,000 pages of newly digitised, unique manuscripts which provide direct insights into the rich written legacy of the Greeks of classical antiquity, Byzantine times, the Renaissance and beyond. The Stavros Niarchos Foundation, which funded this project, has generously agreed to fund a second phase and we look forward to presenting a further 250 manuscripts in full in 2012.?
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Medieval History
British Library digitises Greek manuscripts
The British Library has digitised over a quarter of its Greek manuscripts (284 volumes) for the first time and made them freely available online at www.bl.uk/manuscripts thanks to a generous grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
The website provides researchers with access to high quality digital images of a major part of the British Library?s Greek manuscripts collection, supported by enhanced metadata which enables users to search using key words.
Scot McKendrick, Head of History and Classical Studies at the British Library, said, ?This website offers everyone, wherever they may be in the world, the opportunity to engage for the first time with over 100,000 pages of newly digitised, unique manuscripts which provide direct insights into the rich written legacy of the Greeks of classical antiquity, Byzantine times, the Renaissance and beyond. The Stavros Niarchos Foundation, which funded this project, has generously agreed to fund a second phase and we look forward to presenting a further 250 manuscripts in full in 2012.?
Click here to read the article and video on Medievalists.net
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