Events Tagged: "manuscripts"

Alcuin's Tours scriptorium flourishes - produces magnificent Bibles, becomes Europe's publishing center

Fall of Constantinople brings Byzantine legal manuscripts West - Greek texts of Justinian trigger humanist legal scholarship

Jesuits recover Heidelberg Library - Frederick's hermetic paradise destroyed - 3,500 manuscripts sent to Vatican - 'Jesuits conquered through learning what they could not by force'

Marx's Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts - material production determines consciousness

Discovery of Dunhuang Cave 17 - Daoist monk Wang Yuanlu finds sealed 'Library Cave' with 50,000 manuscripts including Manichaean texts

German Turfan expeditions begin - discover extensive Manichaean texts in multiple languages, illuminated manuscripts with distinctive art

Aurel Stein acquires Dunhuang manuscripts - negotiates with Wang Yuanlu, takes thousands of texts to British Museum including Manichaean hymns