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'''St. Catherine’s Monastery Library''' | '''St. Catherine’s Monastery Library''' | ||
[http://www.sinaimonastery.com/index.php/en/ Website] | |||
::The library, founded sometime between 548 and 565, is the oldest continuously operating library in the world. The monastery library preserves the second largest collection of early codices and manuscripts in the world, outnumbered only by the Vatican Library. It contains Greek, Christian Palestinian Aramaic, Syriac, Georgian, Arabic, Ethiopic/Ge‘ez, Latin, Armenian, Church Slavonic, and Caucasian Albanian manuscripts and books, and very rare Hebrew Language, some Coptic books.<ref>"Saint Catherine's Monastery", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Catherine%27s_Monastery, accessed 2 December 2022.</ref> | ::The library, founded sometime between 548 and 565, is the oldest continuously operating library in the world. The monastery library preserves the second largest collection of early codices and manuscripts in the world, outnumbered only by the Vatican Library. It contains Greek, Christian Palestinian Aramaic, Syriac, Georgian, Arabic, Ethiopic/Ge‘ez, Latin, Armenian, Church Slavonic, and Caucasian Albanian manuscripts and books, and very rare Hebrew Language, some Coptic books.<ref>"Saint Catherine's Monastery", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Catherine%27s_Monastery, accessed 2 December 2022.</ref> | ||