Στο διαδίκτυο σπάνια χειρόγραφα της Βρετανικής Βιβλιοθήκης

nickel

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Η πλουσιότερη ίσως συλλογή στον κόσμο σε βιβλία, χειρόγραφα και χάρτες από την ιστορία της αρχαίας Ελλάδας, την οποία μέχρι σήμερα κανείς μπορούσε να τη συμβουλευτεί μόνο στη Βρετανική Βιβλιοθήκη του Λονδίνου, θα είναι πολύ σύντομα διαθέσιμη δωρεάν στο διαδίκτυο.

Λεπτομέρειες στην Ελευθεροτυπία.

Όταν μάθετε κάτι περισσότερο, όταν το «σύντομα» γίνει «προχτές» και το πάρετε χαμπάρι, πείτε το εδώ.
 

Earion

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Δεν πρόκειται για όλα τα χειρόγραφα της Βρετανικής Βιβλιοθήκης, αλλά μόνο για τα ελληνικά. (Όχι ότι αυτό μειώνει την αξία της είδησης).


British Library posts Greek manuscripts to Web

Raphael G. Satter, The Associated Press, London (Mon, 09/27/2010)

One of the world's most important caches of Greek manuscripts is going online, part of a growing number of ancient documents to hit the Web in recent years.

The British Library said Monday that it was making more than a quarter of its 1,000 volume-strong collection of handwritten Greek texts available online free of charge, something curators there hope will be a boon to historians, biblical scholars and students of classical Greece alike.

Although the manuscripts - highlights of which include a famous collection of Aesopic fables discovered on Mount Athos in 1844 - have long been available to scholars who made the trip to the British Library's reading rooms, curator Scot McKendrick said their posting to the web was opening antiquity to the entire world.

McKendrick said that London could be an expensive place to spend time poring over the Greek texts' tiny, faded script or picking through hundreds of pages of parchment.

"Not every scholar can afford to come here weeks and months on end," he said. The big attraction of browsing the texts online "is the ability to do it at your own desk whenever you wish to do it - and do it for free as well."

Although millions of books have been made available online in recent years - notably through Google Books' mass scanning program - ancient texts have taken much longer to emerge from the archives.

They don't suffer from the copyright issues complicating efforts to post contemporary works to the Web, but their fragility makes them tough to handle. They have to be carefully cracked open and photographed one page at a time, a process the British Library said typically costs about 1 pound ($1.50) per page.

The library has moved aggressively to put large swathes of its collection online, from 19th-century newspapers to the jewels of its collection - The Lindisfarne Gospels, a selection of Leonardo da Vinci's sketches and the Codex Sinaiticus, the oldest surviving complete copy of the Christian Bible.

The library's Greek manuscript project was funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, which supports Greek-related initiatives in arts and culture.

Another batch of about 250 documents are due to be published online in 2012.

The British Library: www.bl.uk/manuscripts

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation: http://www.snf.org

Αναζήτηση κατά αριθμό ευρετηρίου, συγγραφέα (προτιμήστε το), αντιγραφέα και τίτλο έργου
 

nickel

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Δεν πρόκειται για όλα τα χειρόγραφα της Βρετανικής Βιβλιοθήκης, αλλά μόνο για τα ελληνικά. (Όχι ότι αυτό μειώνει την αξία της είδησης).
Από τη μανία μου να κάνω ελληνικότερο τον τίτλο «Online σπάνια χειρόγραφα της Βρετανικής Βιβλιοθήκης», δεν φρόντισα να τον κάνω σαφέστερο. :(
 
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