Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Saint Catherine Area' has mentioned 'Library' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| [5][6] The site contains the world's oldest continually operating library,[7] possessing many unique books such as the Codex Sinaiticus until 1859, of which recently new folios have come to light,[8][9] including the Syriac Sinaiticus. | WIKI |
| The library, founded sometime between 548 and 565, is the oldest continuously operating library in the world. | WIKI |
| [27] The monastery library preserves the second largest collection of early codices and manuscripts in the world, outnumbered only by the Vatican Library. | WIKI |
| Prior to September 1, 2009, a previously unseen fragment of Codex Sinaiticus was discovered in the monastery's library,[32][33] as well as among the New Finds of 1975. | WIKI |
| In February 1892, Agnes S. Lewis discovered an old Syriac Sinaiticus, a Gospel palimpsest manuscript in St Catherine Monastery's library that became known as the Syriac Sinaiticus and is still in the its possession. | WIKI |
| With planning assistance from Ligatus, a research center of the University of the Arts London, the library was extensively renovated, reopening at the end of 2017. | WIKI |
| Since 2011, a team of imaging scientists[51][7] and experienced scholars in the decipherment of palimpsest manuscripts [52][7] from the U.S. and Europe have photographed, digitized, and studied the library's collection of palimpsests during the international Sinai palimpsests project. | WIKI |
| [28] These images have subsequently been digitized and are now freely available for research at the UCLA Online Library for scholarly use. | WIKI |