Ancient Manuscript

You may need to discover where materials pertinent to your topic are located. This section describes directories of manuscript repositories and guides to their resources & collections.

External Links about Ancient Manuscript

Library of Congress
Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu.

Biblebelievers.com
Modern versions and ancient manuscripts.

Timbuktu Educational Foundation
`The Timbuktu manuscripts' are a symbolic representation of the impact and influence of the early schools and universities ( XII-XVIth century) that existed in West Africa ( Timbuktu-Gao-Djenné-Kano). However, the manuscripts that remain in Timbuktu are only part of the intellectual heritage of West Africa. Many other manuscripts can be found in other locations in West Africa.

National Library of the Netherlands
A Hundred Highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek.

Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts
The main focus of the web is on the process used to study the ancient manuscripts upon which the New Testament is based. While the language discussed is Greek, almost everything is explained with transliterations into English and, where applicable, translations from standard English Bibles.

Historian.net
Links to biblical, papyrological, ancient manuscripts, linquistic sites.

Utah LighthouseT Ministry
Mormon Scriptures and the Bible.

Cambridge University Library
Department of Manuscripts and University Archives.

Inner Temple Library
The Manuscript Collection of the Inner Temple comprises over 9 000 items, divided into five main groups such as Petyt Manuscripts, Barrington Manuscripts, Inner Temple Records, Mitford Collection of Legal Manuscripts & Miscellaneous Manuscripts.

Duke University
Rare book, manuscript, and special collections library.

Brown University Library
The Manuscripts Collection at Brown University includes archives, papers, artificial collections, and individual manuscripts, over 2,000,000 pieces of paper in all. Archives, typically, are collections of manuscripts, printed materials, and other items that have been generated by an institution or organization in the course of its official activities.

Oxford University (Bodleian Library)
Checklist of medieval manuscripts acquired since 1916: MSS. Lat. liturg.

The University of Nottingham
The Library has been collecting manuscripts since the early 1930s and now holds approximately 3 million documents, extensive holdings of Special (Printed Book) Collections & East Midlands Collection of local material.

UNLV Libraries
Special Collections house approximately 5000 linear feet of manuscripts in over 500 discrete collections. They include government records such as the original Las Vegas City council minute books, business records from the Union Pacific Railroad, the papers of political figures such as Nevada Senators Howard Cannon and Chic Hecht, Las Vegas Mayor Oran Gragson, as well as state legislators, and city and county commissioners.

The Library of Congress
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections.

Resources:

Cape Cod Community College Library - Nickerson Room manuscript collections.

The Royal Library of Copenhagen - Started to publish selected parts of its collections on the Internet. Within the framework of this initiative, the Manuscript Department now publishes complete digital facsimile editions of manuscripts.

Western Manuscripts - The western manuscripts of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Tamiment Library - Selection of manuscript collections in the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives pertaining to the Yiddishspeaking left in the United States.

The Pagan's Path (The Dead Sea Scrolls) - The Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient manuscripts known by some as "the greatest manuscript discovery of modern times." They include books of the Torah (which forms the Christian Old Testament) and non-Biblical texts dating from 100 BC to AD 68.

Educational Site: Biblical Manuscripts - The manuscript contains the whole Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament in Hebrew). In 1990 a team from the West Semitic Research Project and the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center traveled to the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg to photograph all 1,000 pages of the Bible.

Huntington Library Press - The Manuscripts Department supervises the acquisition, cataloguing, photo-reproduction, exhibition, and scholarly use of the Library's collection of more than 3.5 million manuscripts ranging from the ninth to the twentieth century.

Church Of The East library - About 150 manuscripts ready in 12 categories, which you may browse at your pleasure.

Internet Ancient Manuscripts - A combination of hundreds of hard to find books, along with hundreds of research links that allow you to explore the ancient world from your home.

Learner.org - The recovery of ancient manuscripts showed the humanists how the Greeks and Romans employed mathematics to give structure to their art. The relationship between these two studies is most evident in architecture, where numerical ratios were used in building design...

Westminster College - Understanding The Bible, extant early manuscripts of the Bible.

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