Sinai and the Palimpsests of St. Catherine’s Monastery
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Picture from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library#/media/File:The_British_Library_-geograph.org.uk-_2786739.jpg Ground-breaking multispectral imaging work of the British Library’s burnt copy of the 1215 Magna Carta has recovered text which has not been read in 250 years. This work has been completed by British Library conservators and scientists in preparation for next year’s 800th anniversary of the sealing of the Magna Carta. The…
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Museo Del tesoro del duomo and mappea mundi in Vercelli
Picture from: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_del_Tesoro_del_Duomo_di_Vercelli#/media/File:Sala_Crocifisso_Museo_tesoro_duomo_Vercelli.jpg This trip was part of the Lazarus Project managed by Gregory Heyworth of the University of Mississippi, and included Roger Easton of the Rochester Institute of Technology, Keith Knox of the Air Force Research Lab of Maui in Hawaii, Dale Knox, Damianos Kastotakis (Saint Catherine’s Monastery) and Liz Bondi, a student at…
Cambridge University Library and Codex Zacynthius
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At the Matenadaran Yerevan
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