Photoshop Manual for Scholars
This site is part of the West Semitic Research Project at the University of Southern California, founded by Bruce and Kenneth Zuckerman, who are famous for their photography of ancient manuscripts,...
View ArticleLast Statues of Antiquity Database
This recently activated site is described as “a searchable database of the published evidence for statuary and inscribed statue bases set up after AD 284, that were new, newly dedicated, or newly...
View ArticleApocrypha/Ascetica/Magica/Manichaica at Heidelberg
The Heidelberger Papyrussammlung has made a number of color photos (in both 72 and 150 DPI) of very important Coptic papyri available on their website, including: the Acta Pauli, ed. Carl Schmidt...
View Article“The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” and Codex Tchacos Fragments: Digital Images
The Coptic conference in Rome is off to a fast start! Among the many interesting communications today at the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, two concerned fascinating and unpublished apocryphal...
View ArticleDigital Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum
The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, like many institutions with important manuscripts, is digitizing their collection; a Preservation and Access grant from the NEH is supporting the creation...
View ArticleAntioch in Late Antiquity: Photo Archive of the Princeton Excavations
As museums digitize their collections, institutional stewards of excavation records are also slowly moving them online, as part of a much broader effort within archaeology to effectively manage and...
View ArticleT-Pen and tranScriptorium: Digital Tools for Manuscript Transcription
Transcription for Paleographical and Editorial Notation, or “T-Pen,” developed at the Center for Digital Theology of Saint Louis University, is a tool for the transcription and annotation of...
View ArticleThe Verbum Project at the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic...
Vetus Latina Iohannes, also known as the Verbum Project, is an online, electronic critical edition of the Old Latin Gospel of John from the manuscripts (Patristic citations are not included at this...
View ArticleVisualizing Statues in Late Antiquity
Image from http://inscriptions.etc.ucla.edu/ This fascinating and innovative project seeks to give users the experience of how statues (and their inscribed bases) constituted a collective memory among...
View ArticleThe Virtual Magic Bowl Archive (VMBA) and Prosopography
The Virtual Magic Bowl Archive is a collaborative environment for the publication of magic bowls in the Moussaieff, Dehays, and Barakat collections. It is housed at the University of Southampton,...
View ArticleManichaean Texts at the Digitales Turfan-Archiv and TITUS
The Iranian texts discovered at the beginning of the 20th-century during the German excavations of the Turfan oasis constitute a major source for modern scholarship on Manichaeism; like the Nag...
View ArticleThe Campbell Bonner Magical Gems Database
This database of magical gems, named after Campbell-Bonner’s famous collection of 1954, is in fact far more extensive, containing over 1,000 items. These are drawn from over 30 collections, including...
View ArticleThe British Library Blog: From the Egerton Gospel to Ephrem Palimpsests
The British Library, which labels itself “The World’s Knowledge” with some justification, has a large collection of ancient manuscripts in diverse languages and media, probably the most impressive in...
View ArticleCorpus Coranicum Beta Version
The Corpus Coranicum is a long-standing research project at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, under the direction of Prof. Angelika Neuwirth, established in 2007 and currently...
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