The website of the papal library gives researchers and students free access to high-resolution digitized manuscripts, inventories, archival materials, coins, medals, and incunabula, which are books ...

Ancient manuscripts in the Vatican library penned from East Asia to the Pre-Colombian Americas will be digitized by a Japanese company as part of a global project to make the collection available for ...

Manuscripts can be described in varying levels of detail, and manuscript collections are cataloged in varying degrees of completeness. Some libraries have described their collections in full, others ...

The Vatican’s digitization efforts are focused on their one-of-a-kind historic manuscript collection as well as some of its oldest books, incunabula books printed during the earliest period of ...

The Vatican Library is digitizing its collection of more than 80,000 manuscripts. View of the city of Rome - Miniature of the Code De Civitate Dei by Saint Augustine, by Giovanni from Milano, Jacopo ...

In the Vatican Apostolic Library rests one of its most treasured possessions: the “Gospel of Qaraqosh,” a richly illuminated Syriac manuscript dating back to the 13th century. Catalogued as “Vat. Syr.

The Vatican Film Library (VFL) at Saint Louis University holds over 40,000 manuscripts from the 4th to the 17th centuries reproduced in microfilm and digital formats principally from the Biblioteca ...

VATICAN CITY — Dealing with bug infestations, normal wear and tear and even the occasional thief, keepers of the 15th-century Vatican Apostolic Library face an ever-challenging task. Their latest step ...

Hitherto unknown Jewish contributions to medieval learning are being found among the rare hand-written Hebrew manuscripts which are now available on microfilm at St. Louis University. The 800 ...

The Vatican's Apostolic Library is reopening to scholars following a three-year, €9-million ($11.5- million) renovation to install climate-controlled rooms for its precious manuscripts and ...

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A revamped website for the Vatican Apostolic Library brings modern technology to the study of historic manuscripts. The new website, with improved search functions and easier access to digital ...