Posts Tagged ‘manuscripts’

Rare 233-year-old Messiah manuscript sings again in Katikati

Monday, November 27th, 2017

“A bit of magic” was created in Katikati at the weekend through a combination of musical talent, research and an extraordinary, rare manuscript. Tauranga’s Colin and Stephanie Smith discovered the manuscript 10 or 12 years ago in a pile of music bought decades earlier as part of an auction lot from an estate in Christchurch. Read more

Vatican Apostolic Library is going digital

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

The 565-year-old Vatican Apostolic Library is going digital. More than 80,000 manuscripts and 8900 incunabula (books or texts printed before 1501) will be preserved in digital format. The process, which will take nine years, has been made possible by the EMC Corporation, an international information technology company, making available 2.8 petabytes of storage. One petabyte Read more