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Giant Bible returns to England after 1300 years

London: A bible half-a-meter thick and made from the skin of 500 animals is to return to England where it was first made for the first time in 1,300 years, the British Library has said. The Bible, known as the Codex Amiatinus, was created by monks in northern England in the early part of the […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
British Library digitising rare printed Bengali books

Kolkata: The British Library, which is leading an international partnership to digitise rare material from its South Asian printed book collection, has scanned 1,000 old and rare printed Bengali books of the 19th century, according to project co-ordinators. As part of the ‘Two Centuries of Indian Print’ (TCIP) project, in total, 4,000 early printed Bengali […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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