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From http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100926/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_greek_manuscripts

British Library posts Greek manuscripts to Web
By RAPHAEL G. SATTER
September 26, 2010

One of the world's most important caches of Greek manuscripts is going online, part of a growing number of ancient documents to hit the Web in recent years.

The British Library said Monday that it was making more than a quarter of its 1,000 volume-strong collection of handwritten Greek texts available online free of charge, something curators there hope will be a boon to historians, biblical scholars and students of classical Greece alike.

Read the full article at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100926/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_greek_manuscripts
Read the British Library’s blog entry about the new manuscripts at http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts
Search the database of manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts
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