It was right under his nose, in the library of the University of Bologna, where it had been mistakenly catalogued a century ago as dating from the 17th century. Mauro Perani, ...

An Italian expert in Hebrew manuscripts said Wednesday he has discovered the oldest known complete Torah scroll, a sheepskin document dating from 1155-1225.

Oldest known complete scroll was mistakenly cataloged a century ago at University of Bologna library as a 17th-century document Latest U.S.

It was right under his nose, in the University of Bologna library, where it had been mistakenly catalogued a century ago as dating from the 17th century. The find isn’t ...

Apparently, it was mistakenly filed at a University of Bologna library, and was thought to be only a few hundred years old. It had been labelled "scroll 2" by a librarian in 1889, who didn't ...

Carbon Dating Confirms World's Oldest Torah Scroll. A scroll at the University of Bologna is shown to be 800 years old.