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IFLA Journal
An institution of ancient origin, the Vatican Apostolic Library holds a diverse and complex collection of documents that reflect its rich institutional history, distributed among its various collections and institutional archives. This multifaceted heritage, comprising traditional and digital resources, stands as a valuable testimony to the active ...
Raffaella Vincenti
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Toward on-line, worldwide access to Vatican Library materials

IBM Journal of Research and Development, 1996
The Vatican Library is an extraordinary repository of rare books and manuscripts. Among its 150,000 manuscripts are early copies of works by Aristotle, Dante, Euclid, Homer, and Virgil. Yet today access to the Library is limited. Because of the time and cost required to travel to Rome, only some 2000 scholars can afford to visit the Library each year ...
F. C. Mintzer   +12 more
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History of Palimpsest Photography in the Vatican Library

The Vatican Library Review, 2022
Abstract This paper focuses on the nearly 200-year history of reproduction and imaging of the famous correspondence of Fronto, transmitted in a palimpsest from the Abbey of Bobbio the pages of which are now kept in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Milan) and in the Vatican Library.
Irene Altamura   +3 more
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The Vatican Library’s “Statue of Saint Hippolytus” Revisited

The Vatican Library Review, 2023
Abstract An archaeologist-art historian and an IT scientist specialised in the restoration of architectural and artistic heritage present the scheme of a multidisciplinary research project concerning a long-debated monument, the so-called St. Hippolytus’ statue of the Vatican Library.
Ágnes Bencze, Franco Prampolini
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Reconstructing Giovanni Vacca’s Collection in the Vatican Library

The Vatican Library Review, 2023
Abstract This article reconstructs an important but specific portion of Giovanni Vacca’s personal library: his books related to mathematics in Chinese language. Collected during his stay in China from 1907 to 1908, they were donated to the Vatican Library after his death.
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My Adventures in the Vatican Library

2011
An account of scholarly jealousy and persistence in the Biblioteca Apostolica ...
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English Manuscripts in the Vatican Library

PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1925
For the benefit of scholars who may conceive the idea of examining the Vatican collections in the hope of discovering hitherto unsignalled English manuscripts, it may be well to report upon the slender harvest reaped by those who have preceded them.
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