MEDIA ABC Blog

These are some links that John Chandler, our paleography guest expert, thought we might find interesting:

Newly found Syriac manuscript leads to some disputes over its age:
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE5152HR20090206

DNA testing to help identify manuscript production:
http://www.sciam.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=judging-a-book-by-its-genomes-09-01-12

Also of interest is the National Library of Scotland?s digitization project.
Here are two of their treasures:

The Auchinleck Manuscript, a wide-ranging collection of Middle English texts:
http://www.nls.uk/auchinleck/index.html

And the Murthly book of hours:
http://www.nls.uk/murthlyhours/index.html

NLS is also digitizing their early printed books, which you can find pretty
easily from their site (www.nls.uk). I?ve looked at a couple of them on the
site, and thought it was an effective way to present the texts.