NLB collaborates with foreign institutions to digitise rare items from Singapore's early history

Pages from the Hikayat Raja Iskandar Dhulkarnain (Volume 1), a manuscript dating back to 1816. The Malay epic is one of the rare items being digitised by the Singapore Digital Resource Project. PHOTOS: COURTESY OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
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SINGAPORE - The last surviving copy of an early Malay language newspaper, one of the earliest Tamil works printed in Singapore, and a 17th century manuscript with the earliest map of the island are housed in institutions around the world.

Thanks to a new initiative, some of these items will soon be available for viewing online.

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