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Thursday, November 5, 2009

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  • Duke Papyrus Archive
  • Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
  • Epistolae:Medieval Women's Letters
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  • Heavenly Craft
  • Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
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  • Iluminated Manuscripts/ Project Gutenburg
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  • International Dunhuang Project/British Library
  • Internet Archive
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  • Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts
  • Jeremy Norman's History of Science
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