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Bibliothèque nationale de France

National library of France in Paris

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Dec 15, 2025

Louis Pasteur diary

Louis Pasteur’s original laboratory notebooks and personal papers were largely kept in private hands until Pasteur’s grandson, Pasteur Vallery-Radot, donated them to France’s national library in 1964,...

Dec 16, 2025

What textual sources and manuscript traditions underpin the Ethiopian Bible (Ethiopic/Ge'ez) and how are they dated?

The Ethiopian (Geʽez) Bible rests on a long manuscript culture: oldest physical witnesses include the Garima Gospels (parchment dated by carbon tests to roughly 4th–7th centuries) and many later codic...

Jan 7, 2026

What is the full bibliography of Albert Pike and which books are still in print?

Albert Pike was a prolific 19th‑century writer whose output ranged from poetry and legal manuals to extensive ritual and esoteric works for the Scottish Rite; an authoritative, single printed bibliogr...

Jan 5, 2026

¿Qué documentos internos y rituales son públicos en la masonería y qué dicen realmente sus textos?

La masonería tiene una mezcla de materiales rituales públicos —manuscritos y libros editados— y prácticas que las obediencias consideran reservadas; estudios y ediciones modernas han hecho accesibles ...

Jan 2, 2026

What is the full text and scholarly history of the Nazareth Inscription and competing translations?

The Nazareth Inscription is a Roman-period marble slab bearing a Greek imperial rescript that warns capital punishment for anyone who disturbs tombs or moves sepulchral stones; it entered scholarship ...

Dec 14, 2025

what books did Seymour B. Liebman write

Seymour B. Liebman (1907–1986) published at least one major scholarly book, New World Jewry: 1493–1825: Requiem for the Forgotten, and is credited with other works such as The Inquisitors & the Jews i...