The rarest and most elaborate collection of religious manuscripts in the world, including one of the earliest Korans and a Torah from a lost community of Chinese Jews, is to be displayed at the British Library in a unique exhibition on the great religions…Manuscripts from collections around the world, including the Royal Library in Rabat, Morocco, will sit alongside texts in the British Library’s own collection, such as the Lindisfarne Gospels, considered the masterpiece of early Anglo-Saxon book production.
Source: The Independent
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