Did you know that over 25,000 handwritten copies of the New Testament exist today? These fragile pages, some nearly 2,000 years old, offer a direct line to voices from antiquity. They reveal how ideas traveled across continents and survived wars, fires, and time itself. Handwritten texts like the Dead Sea Scrolls or the Aleppo Codex […]
Textual criticism, a discipline with a history spanning over two millennia, has its roots in the preservation of antiquity’s literary treasures1. This field, at the nexus of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism, endeavors to decipher ancient manuscripts and unearth textual variants. The examination of the Bible and Greek tragedies, which exist in numerous copies, […]
Cambridge University Library’s holdings, comprising 1.3 million maps and over 40,000 atlases and cartography texts, highlight the profound significance of ancient manuscripts and historical documents. These artifacts are instrumental in deciphering our historical narrative and forecasting our future trajectory1. They encompass a diverse array of medieval texts, rare books, and antiquarian codices, each offering unique […]