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History of Palimpsest Photography in the Vatican Library
The Vatican Library Review, 2022Abstract 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, 2023Abstract 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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English Manuscripts in the Vatican Library
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1925For 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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Reconstructing Giovanni Vacca’s Collection in the Vatican Library
The Vatican Library Review, 2023Abstract 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
2011An account of scholarly jealousy and persistence in the Biblioteca Apostolica ...
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A Bronze Situla in the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican Library
The Art Bulletin, 1930This paper is concerned with a bronze situla or liturgical bucket which has as its chief decoration a scene representing Christ with the twelve apostles. The situla (Figs. 1–3), of somewhat conical shape, is provided with a semicircular handle, and measures 23 cm. in height and 19 cm. in diameter.
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