Thousands of digital scans of important manuscripts housed in the library St. Catherine’s Monastery at the foot of Egypt’s Mount Sinai are currently being digitally scanned. Reuters announced earlier this year that the goal was for publication to begin this Fall. If anyone has an update on this, please leave a comment.
The aim is to create the first digital archive of all 4,500 manuscripts in the library, starting with around 1,100 in the Syriac and Arabic languages, which are particularly rare.
The task could take more than a decade, using digital cameras and computer arrays alongside sophisticated cradles designed to support the more fragile manuscripts.
The project began last year and is being undertaken by the non-profit research organization Early Manuscripts Electronic Library (EMEL), in collaboration with the monastery and the Library of the University of California, Los Angeles. UCLA Library said it will start publishing the manuscripts online, in full color, from the fall of 2019.(HT: Andy Warren-Rothlin)
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