Website funding from Polonsky Foundation includes Bodleian's 1455 Gutenberg Bible and aims to put 1.5m pages online
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| Radcliffe Square, Oxford University. The Bodleian Library, together with the Vatican, is putting thousands of religious texts online. Photograph: Alamy |
From The Guardian
By Maev Kennedy
Some of the rarest and most fragile religious texts in the Vatican and Bodleian libraries,
including ancient bibles and some of the oldest Hebrew manuscript and
printed books, are being placed online in a joint project by the two
great libraries, which will eventually create an online archive of 1.5m
pages.
The website launched on Tuesday
with funding from the Polonsky Foundation includes the first results of
the four-year project, including the Bodleian's 1455 Gutenberg Bible,
one of only 50 surviving copies of the first major book printed in the
west with metal type.
