Oxford, Vatican team up to digitize ancient texts

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

Oxford University and the Vatican are teaming up to make 1.5 million pages of ancient texts available for free online over the next four years.

Oxford University made the announcement Thursday, saying that the digitization will focus on three subject areas: Greek manuscripts, 15th century printed books, as well as Hebrew manuscripts and early printed books drawn from its Bodleian Libraries and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Continue reading

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