I hope you find some interesting reading in the links below:
Last week the Pope presented the Library of Congress with “an Apostles Edition of The Saint John’s Bible, a work of art with more than 1,130 pages and 160 illuminations that reflect life in the modern era, measuring 2 feet tall and 3 feet wide when open. It is the first handwritten and illuminated Bible commissioned by a monastery since the invention of the printing press.”
UK National Archives has published 350 war diaries online, in time for the centenary of the Battle of Loos in World War I.
132 square foot (!) map of Swansea, Wales, made in 1852 has now been digitized.
Buried Treasure Amongst the Stacks: “a canned history of the book trade in the 16th century all in one book!”
The British Library Outlines Plan to Create a National Radio Archive
Thieves steal 120 years of archives from Chute-a-Blondeau, Ont., church
Do you have any articles to share this week?
Oh oh oh! I have an article to share that will be exciting for an archivist! Some very very old pages of Qur’an manuscript were recently found bundled together with an unrelated set in a library in England. Wouldn’t that be a thrill to discover? http://bit.ly/1OlLmOL
Yes! Thanks for sharing.