British Library Digitises Greek Manuscripts

[Aeschylus]

This is fabulous! I'm so, so happy you've been doing this. For centuries the only way to inspect a manuscript was by traveling to London, Paris, Berlin, Meteora, Athos, &c. More recently, microfilms. But now anyone who studies Greek and learns some palaeography (which there are also much more online resources for now) can have access. Similar projects at Oxford, Florence, the Vatican &c.

A real democratization of scholarship! So thank you so very much! (Σᾶς εὐχαριστῶ · χάριν οἶδα ὑμῖν!)

[jimhalk23]

ΟΛΑ ΔΙΚΑ ΜΑς ΕΙ ΡΕ!!!ΓΥΡΙΣΤΕ ΤΑ ΟΛΑ!!

[Aeschylus]

@jimhalk23 Φίλε, μ' αὐτὸ τὸ πρότζεκτ τὰ χειρόγραφα "γυρίζουνε" σ' ὅλο τὸν κόσμο καὶ σὲ ἐπιστήμονες - καὶ ἐπαγγελματίες καὶ ἐρασιτέχνες - παντοῦ.

[historyscientist]

Fascinating stuff. Can the works be freely used and copied?

[britishlibrary]

Yes we do. This comes up a lot. We have found that clean hands without gloves cause less damage.

[iindans]

Do you handle old manuscripts without gloves?