The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana announced on 12 April 2012 a new collaborative four-year digitization project with the aim of opening up 1.5 million pages of ‘ancient texts’ from their collections.
The initiative has been made possible by a £2 million award from the Polonsky Foundation. Dr Leonard Polonsky believes the project will be a major step forward in his commitment to democratize digital access to information.
The digital content will be drawn from three areas: Greek manuscripts (including those of the New Testament and Church Fathers); Hebrew manuscripts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance and early Hebrew printed books; and incunabula.
For further information, see the press release at:
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/news/bodleian-and-the-vatican-libraries/
The Polonsky Foundation has previously helped to fund the digitization of the Bodleian’s collection of over 280,000 Cairo Genizah fragments. See:
http://genizah.bodleian.ox.ac.uk<http://genizah.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/>
Dr Clive D Field, OBE
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