[Credit: Polonski Foundation Digitizarion Project]
Over the course of the next four years, 1.5 million pages from their remarkable collections will be made freely available online to researchers and to the general public.
Many of the manuscripts in the collection are of inestimable value, either for their historical importance of text containing either because of their beauty.
The digitized collections will be in three subject areas: Greek manuscripts, 15th-century printed books (incunabula) and Hebrew manuscripts and early printed books.
These areas have been chosen for the strength of the collections in both libraries and their importance for scholarship in their respective fields.
With approximately two-thirds of the material coming from the Vatican Library and the remainder from the Bodleian, the digitization effort will virtually unite materials that have been dispersed between the two collections for centuries.
The project, which is funded by the Polonski Foundation, will result in approximately 1.5 million pages being made available in digital format.
For more information visit the Polonski Foundation Digitizarion Project's official website:
Source: To Vima [December 03, 2013]