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Egypt: Historical Arabic Manuscripts Put Online

Categories: Middle East & North Africa, Egypt, Arts & Culture, Education, Health, Science, Technology

Egypt's Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Wellcome Library and King’s College London Digital Humanities Department have recently launched [1] the Wellcome Arabic Manuscript Cataloguing Partnership (WAMCP) [2]. The manuscripts collection comprises around 1000 manuscript books and fragments relating to the history of medicine. All content is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 2.0).