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There's much more in culture: there's manuscripts, there newspapers, there's things that are not text, like art and paintings.
But he didn't use new parchment, he used parchment recycled from earlier manuscripts, and there were seven of them.
He took apart the Archimedes manuscript and the other seven manuscripts.
And essentially these seven manuscripts disappeared for 700 years, and we have a prayer book.
The really astonishing thing though about this manuscript is that we looked at the other manuscripts that the palimpsester had made, the scribe had made his book out of, and one of them was a manuscript containing text by Hyperides.
Now I should say at this point that normally when you're looking at medieval manuscripts that have been scraped off, you don't find unique texts.
And if you want to look at medieval manuscripts on the Web, at the moment you have to go to the National Library of Y's site or the University Library of X's site, which is about the most boring way in which you can deal with digital data.
Because the Web of the ancient manuscripts of the future isn't going to be built by institutions.
Now the Walters Art Museum is a small museum and it has beautiful manuscripts, but the data is fantastic.
In particular, traditional optical character recognition method that can be used for printed manuscripts, they do not work well on the handwritten document.
Franz Kafka saw incompletion when others would find only works to praise, so much so that he wanted all of his diaries, manuscripts, letters and even sketches burned upon his death.
The library grew as they contributed their own manuscripts, but the rulers of Alexandria still wanted a copy of every book in the world.
From Sweden to Palau, writers and translators sent me self-published books and unpublished manuscripts of books that hadn't been picked up by Anglophone publishers or that were no longer available, giving me privileged glimpses of some remarkable imaginary worlds.
There, they set fire to a medieval library of 30,000 manuscripts written in Arabic and several African languages and ranging in subject from astronomy to geography, history to medicine, including one book which records perhaps the first treatment for male erectile dysfunction.
The mayor of Bamako, who witnessed the event, called the burning of the manuscripts "a crime against world cultural heritage."
But Africa, and the far-flung corners of the world, are not the only places, or even the main places in which manuscripts that could change the history of world culture are in jeopardy.
Several years ago, I conducted a survey of European research libraries and discovered that, at the barest minimum, there are 60,000 manuscripts pre-1500 that are illegible because of water damage, fading, mold and chemical reagents.
The real number is likely double that, and that doesn't even count Renaissance manuscripts and modern manuscripts and cultural heritage objects such as maps.
Over the past five years, our team of imaging scientists, scholars and students has travelled to seven different countries and have recovered some of the world's most valuable damaged manuscripts, included the Vercelli Book, which is the oldest book of English, the Black Book of Carmarthen, the oldest book of Welsh, and some of the most valuable earliest Gospels located in what is now the former Soviet Georgia.
If you want a glimpse of Marie Curie's manuscripts, you'll have to sign a waiver and put on protective gear to shield yourself from radiation contamination.
And so, one day Peter came in and he said he was Peter Pauling, and he gave me a copy of his father's manuscripts.
Some images appear in many different illuminated manuscripts, and often reinforce the religious content of the books they decorated.
Many illuminated manuscripts were copies of religious or classical texts, and the bookmakers incorporated their own ideas and opinions in illustrations.
Some artists even painted themselves into the manuscripts.
The tradition of illuminated manuscripts lasted for over a thousand years.
I've studied Nazism and read many manuscripts from the day - the "parallels" use most of the classic debased apocryphal myths of Nazism and then compare it with complete specious generalizations about what constitute 1/3 of the planet.
Great production design, appealing stars, great lines ("Miss Bender, I don't care if you beat it out on a native drum!", says Joan Crawford's Amanda Farrow to Hope Lange when Lange incredulously asks how she is expected to read a summarize a large amount of manuscripts in a very short time).
All of these geometrical designs have a purpose - the story is about a young boy who is learning to be an artist working on illuminated manuscripts (the Book of Kells is a real illuminated Bible; the art of the film is based on the drawings in it).
More recently, radical Islamists destroyed tombs and manuscripts in Timbuktu.
Indeed, a world that is unwilling to fulfill its responsibility to protect people, as has been shown most recently in Syria, is unlikely to come together on behalf of statues, manuscripts, and paintings.