Conservators at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, like characters out of a horror film, have unleashed a “hidden demon” from the pages of an ancient Armenian Gospel manuscript. The illustration, from a seventeenth-century manuscript, had been rubbed out over the centuries by pious readers, but has now been recovered using hyper-spectral imaging tools. The restored image will be displayed alongside the manuscript which features in a new exhibition at the Weston Library, part of the Bodleian, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. The exhibition, which opened yesterday, also features a tiny prayer book printed in Venice in 1831 (right), large portions of which are covered in (often bad) Mandarin Chinese, penned by a former owner, the orientalist Solomon Cae