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This Ancient Roman Scroll Was Burned to A Crisp 2,000 Years Ago. Now, Researchers Are Reading What’s Inside With AI
AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted with a fury that buried the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum under layers of ash and pumice.
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Kill your darlings — insights into the art of the editing from Oxford’s Bodleian Library
The Bodleian’s manuscript of the text shows the author ... It is only one of the insights on offer in Write, Cut, Rewrite, the Bodleian Library’s fascinating new exhibition on the art of ...
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David Vaisey, head librarian who steered the cash-strapped Bodleian into the digital age
When Vaisey took the Bodleian’s top job in 1986, having risen through the ranks from lowly postgraduate archivist to Keeper of Western Manuscripts, the library was facing what seemed the ...
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Items worth more than £45m donated to UK museums including Bach manuscript
with only three Bach manuscripts located in Britain prior to its arrival at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. LS Lowry’s painting River Scene, Sunderland, which shows the River Wear at Sunderland ...
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Early English Text and Corpus Studies (EETACS)
During the past years, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka and Matti Kilpiö were working on an edition of three manuscripts of Ann Bathurst’s religious meditations. The edition would cover the whole of the ...
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Bach manuscript among items worth more than £45 million donated to UK museums
Only three Bach manuscripts were in Britain before its arrival at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. LS Lowry’s painting River Scene, Sunderland, which shows the River Wear at Sunderland Docks ...
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‘Loyal’ Oxford University Bodleian Librarian dies aged 89
David Vaisey CBE was Bodleian Librarian for ... advice to the College on matters such as library policy and on the cataloguing of the College’s manuscripts. “His later years were marred ...