World's Oldest Library is Treasure Trove
September 5, 2017 9:16 AM   Subscribe

St. Catherine's Monastery, built c.550, houses an astonishing array of manuscripts. New research is being carried on all the time, especially on palimpsests. Languages are being recovered/discovered, and one scientist blogged about what it was like to work there UC Berkeley Conservator. Ohio State Univ. is also doing research into the slavic connections Scriptoria Slavica. The monastery has been a pilgrimage site for centuries and a crossroads meeting place for many faiths St. Catherine's Monastery
posted by MovableBookLady (7 comments total) 30 users marked this as a favorite
 
The monastery has a website!
posted by mareli at 10:00 AM on September 5, 2017 [3 favorites]


I'm especially excited about the Caucasian Albanian texts.
posted by languagehat at 10:59 AM on September 5, 2017 [5 favorites]


Dammit, mareli, I forgot about that one! Good you added it. Thanks.
posted by MovableBookLady at 11:36 AM on September 5, 2017


Do the EMEL people know the HMML people? I love that we have access to so much of this online nowadays.
posted by Wretch729 at 2:05 PM on September 5, 2017


C'mon...complete works of Sappho/Aeschylus/Euripides/Sophocles...
posted by the sobsister at 5:55 PM on September 5, 2017


I’ve already been planning a trip to Gebel Musa for sometime this year, merely to climb the 3750 “Steps of Penitence” up the mountain... but this is definitely going to get me going there much faster. Even more reasons to go now.
posted by infinite intimation at 10:32 AM on September 6, 2017


Perhaps another chapter of the Satyricon will be found.
posted by boilermonster at 11:26 PM on September 6, 2017


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