>Matthew Fisher, an assistant professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles, has developed the Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts. The Catalogue is a centralized online archive that contains thousands of medieval manuscripts that have been digitized and made available on the web by libraries around the world.

According to a published report, there are more than 5,000 digitized manuscripts available on the web. So far, the Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts has catalogued 1,024 of these manuscripts.

Among the documents available in the Catalogue is a copy of the Gospel of John presented to Charlemagne around 800. The document is located in the monastery of St. Gall, in Switzerland.

Claude Mariottini
Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary

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