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A Monk Saves Threatened Manuscripts Using Ultramodern Means

Does the phrase "monks and manuscripts" conjure up an image of medieval scribes huddled over parchment in unheated cells? One Benedictine monk, the Rev. Columba Stewart of St. John's Abbey and University, in College­ville, Minn., keeps that historic involvement with manuscripts alive in a very modern way—by making digital images of them...
Read entire article at The Chronicle of Higher Education