Deir al-Surian Library and Conservation Centre

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Deir al-Surian Library and Conservation Centre

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1papyri
Editado: mayo 11, 2013, 11:03 am

Deir al-Surian Library and Conservation Centre
Wadi el Natrun, Egypt

Monastery of the Syrians (also known as Deir al-Surian) in Egypt now has a new state-of-the-art library. The opening event was held May 19th, 2013 under the patronage of His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark; His Grace Bishop Mattaos, Abbot of Deir al-Surian; and The Levantine Foundation.

The new library has been built within the tenth century walls of the sixth century Coptic monastery to house the priceless collection of ancient Christian Coptic, Syriac, Ethiopic, and Arabic manuscripts, many of which date back to the fifth, sixth, and seventh centuries A.D. The purpose-built library provides world class storage for the collection and facilities for all aspects of book conservation, including education and training which will enable unrivalled state-of-the-art care for the library’s precious collection. The building is equipped with an advanced temperature and humidity control system for long term preservation, a conservation laboratory, and public access areas such as reading rooms for visiting scholars. Future projects will include fully cataloging the library and making digital images of its treasures available to scholars world-wide.

Further information and images can be found at.

Deir al-Surian Library and Conservation Centre

The project and library were partially funded by The Levantine Foundation

The Levantine Foundation's aim is to record and preserve cultural heritage on paper and related materials in the Near East through expertise, education, and dissemination of knowledge.strongly committed to the preservation and recording of these important manuscripts.

- Information from The Levantine Foundation Website and PAPY mailing list opening event posting .

2cemanuel
mayo 11, 2013, 11:27 am

If this is the monastery I'm thinking of this will be large as they have quite a few documents that have never been studied. Thanks for this.

3elenchus
mayo 11, 2013, 3:00 pm

It appears they have plans to publish, but didn't see anything about electronic access, whether public or private.