Khawam dedicated the last forty years of his life to the study and translation of classical Arabic manuscripts.

The scholia on classical manuscripts are the earliest known form of marginalia.

Monks and other copyists were set to transcribing ancient manuscripts, both classical and Christian, for the preservation and extension of learning.

(This activity of finding and recopying classical manuscripts is part of what is called the Carolingian Renaissance.)

He catalogued the classical manuscripts in the University Library and the Greek and English coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum.

In a preserved classical manuscript of the excerpt known as Handy Tables, an anonymous reader in the third century wrote the comment (a scholium) that Kidenas discovered this relation.

Based on his experience researching classical Arabic manuscripts, and teaching modern Arabic language, Khulusi sets out to simplify the complexities of grammatical construction in modern Arabic.

The Vergilius Romanus is one of the few surviving illustrated classical manuscripts.

According to Weitzmann the latter is a most faithful copy of a late classical original manuscript.

Like the medieval monks who preserved brittle classical manuscripts on their wind-swept Atlantic retreats, certain new monastic individuals (N.M.I.'s for short) are preparing civilization's eventual revival.