British Library Digitised Manuscripts Milestone

The British Library Digitised Manuscripts project launched on 27 September 2010.

On 24 November 2011 they completed the digitization of the first five hundred manuscripts:

Digitised Manuscripts 500 landmark

The British Library's Digitised Manuscripts was launched on 27 September 2010. Just over a year on, we have now published online and in its entirety our 500th item.
The most recent upload comprises another 75 Greek manuscripts (approximately 26,000 images), ranging in date from the 9th century to the 18th century. Items in Greek currently constitute by far the greatest part of Digitised Manuscripts, and we hope that, by digitising these manuscripts in full, and by providing enhanced descriptions, we have revolutionised access to this hugely important resource. We are extremely grateful to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation for its generosity and foresight in funding this project.

Aretaeus, De curatione diuturnorum morborum, Book II, 16th century: London, British Library, MS Harley 6326, f. 2r
Digitised Manuscripts at present contains images of 508 items from the British Library's wide-ranging collections, including the Lindisfarne Gospels, a Bach autograph, Civil War papers, India Office records, and Thai astrological drawings. Apart from our Greek manuscripts, more medieval content, comprising scientific books in Latin and various western European vernacular languages, will be published to the site in the coming months.
A full list of the recent Greek upload is given below. Among the highlights are a 9th century copy of Basil of Caesarea’s In Hexaemeron, a 16th century volume of Psalms and Proverbs in English, Latin, Hebrew and Greek, works of St John Chrysostom and St Basil of Ancyra dating from the 11th century, and a copy of Homer’s Odyssey dating from 1479.

Aristophanes, Plutus and Nubes, 15th century: London, British Library, MS Arundel 530, inside front cover

Add 5422	Appian of Alexandria, Historia Romana, 16th century
Arundel 211	Greek-Latin dictionary, 17th century
Arundel 518	Georgios Boustronios, Chronicle of Cyprus, 16th century
Arundel 522	Works of Hesiod and Euripides, 1489
Arundel 523	Constantine Manasses, Chronicle, 1312–1313
Arundel 524	Four Gospels, 11th century
Arundel 525	Letters of Phalaris, 1470
Arundel 526	Manuel Chrysoloras, Erotemata, 15th century
Arundel 528	Compilation for Makarios, Bishop of Helicz, 15th century
Arundel 530	Aristophanes, Plutus and Nubes, 15th century
Arundel 532	Basil of Caesarea, In Hexaemeron, 9th century
Arundel 533	Works of Theodoros Balsamon, 14th century
Arundel 534	Theophylact of Bulgaria, Commentary on the Letters of Paul, 14th century
Arundel 535	Ascetic works of Isaac the Syrian, 14th century
Arundel 537	Medical tracts, 15th century
Arundel 538	Hippocratic works, 15th/16th century
Arundel 540	Euripides, Hecuba, Orestes and Phoenissae, 15th century
Arundel 541	Grammatical works of Hermogenes, 15th century
Arundel 544	St John Chrysostom, In Ioannem, 14th century
Arundel 545	Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, 15th century
Arundel 546	Works of Theodoret of Cyrrhus and Palladius of Helenopolis, 16th century
Arundel 548	Elements of Euclid, 16th century
Arundel 549	Sermons of St Gregory of Nazianzus, 11th century
Harley 825	Letters of Ephraim Pagitt, 1635
Harley 931	Extracts from the Psalms and St Paul, 1623
Harley 1686	Cassianus Bassus, Geoponica, 16th century
Harley 1752	Collection of Hymns and Epigrams, 15th century
Harley 1837	Collations of the Greek Bible, c. 1640–1659
Harley 2427	Psalms and Proverbs in English, Latin, Hebrew and Greek, 16th century
Harley 3318	Works of Philipp Melanchthon and others, 17th century
Harley 5051	Extracts from Greek and Latin authors, 17th century
Harley 5232	Anonymous commentary on the Apophthegmata, 16th century
Harley 5533	Psalter, 12th century
Harley 5542	Tetrastichs on the New and Old Testaments, 16th century
Harley 5544	Kekragaria, with late Byzantine notation, 17th century
Harley 5547	Plato and Aristides, 15th century
Harley 5565	Extracts from Plato, 16th century
Harley 5568	Polybius, 'Excerpta Antiqua', 16th century
Harley 5571	Psalms and Odes, 15th century
Harley 5572	Greek Lexikon, 13th century
Harley 5589	Heron of Alexandria, 16th century
Harley 5591	Photius, Bibliotheca, 16th century
Harley 5597	Collection of fragments, 15th/16th century
Harley 5605	Heron of Alexandria, Pneumatica and De automatis, 16th century
Harley 5614	Liturgies, 15th/16th century
Harley 5618	Hephaestion, Enchiridion de metris, c. 1453–1470
Harley 5631	Chronicle of Constantinople, 1555
Harley 5633	Nectarius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, Περὶ τῆς ἀρχῆς τοῦ πάπα ἀντίρρησις, 1672–1682
Harley 5638	Plutarch and Philostratus, 16th Century
Harley 5643	Patristic miscellany, c. 1600
Harley 5646	Patristica, 16th century
Harley 5653	Psalter, 15th century
Harley 5654	Letters of scholars, 17th century
Harley 5656	Grammatical extracts from Herodian, Tryphon, 15th century
Harley 5658	Homer, Odyssey, 1479
Harley 5668	Olympiodorus, Commentary on Plato's Gorgias, 16th century
Harley 5677	Nicetas, Metropolites of Heraclea, Catena on the Psalms, 17th century
Harley 5689	St John Chrysostom and St Basil of Ancyra, 11th century
Harley 5777	Four Gospels, 15th century
Harley 6290	Grammatica, 15th century
Harley 6296	Porphyrius, De abstinentia, 17th century
Harley 6297	Michael Glykas, Letters, 1595
Harley 6299	Priscian, Psellus, Adamantius, Themistius, 15th century
Harley 6300	Euripides, Hecuba, Orestes and Phoenissae, 16th century
Harley 6303	Greek-Latin dictionary, 17th century
Harley 6305	Galen, c. 1500
Harley 6318	Johannes Stobaeus, Anthology, Books 1 and 2, 16th century
Harley 6319	Lycophron, 16th century
Harley 6323	Ovid, Hesiod, Oracula Sibyllina, 15th century
Harley 6326	Aretaeus, 16th century
Harley 6473	Extracts from J. G. Graevius, Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanarum, 1697–1698
Harley 6506	Chrysoloras, 15th century
Harley 6510	Epitome of Livy, Greek glossary, 15th century
Harley 6875	Constantine Lascaris, Grammar, 16th century
Harley 6943	Miscellaneous correspondence of John Covel, D.D., 1672–1711