Between 2012 and 2017 the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford and the Vatican Library carried out a joint digitization project. More than 1.5 million pages from their remarkable collections have been made freely available online to researchers and to the general public. The digitization project ha focussed on three main groups of texts: Hebrew manuscripts, Greek manuscripts, and incunabula, or 15th-century printed books as well as a selection of Latin manuscript from the Vatican Library.
This exhibit shows some of the manuscripts belonging to the Project, in some cases enriched with annotations produced according to IIIF technology and chosen according to the categories shown in the 'Browse' section.
Example: comparisons of Hebrew manuscripts coming from Giannozzo Manetti's Library:
Biblical commentaries, 15th cent.
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