In the newest copy of The American Scholar there is a small article by Noelani Kirschner regarding the Virtual Hill Museum & Manuscript Library Reading Room.
According to Kirschner scholars at Saint John's University in Collegeville, MN have digitalized manuscripts from ancient times to the present. Their work is now online and ready to be explored.
The researchers have visited "540 libraries in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and India" in an effort to "scan and upload hundreds of thousands of manuscripts while exchanging metadata with other libraries."
How awesome is this?!? Pretty cool. As Father Columba Stewart explained many of these manuscripts have "been virtually unknown to scholars outside the Middle East. . . (and will) significantly shift or transform how people view the history of the region".
There could be interesting quotes and passages in this manuscripts. Perhaps some of them will end up in a 21st Century Zibaldone.
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