The Vatican https://refractor.io/tag/vatican/ The Vatican en-AU Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:59:11 GMT Vatican Library is digitizing 1.5 million pages of ancient manuscripts https://refractor.io/science/vatican-library-is-digitizing-1-5-million-pages-of-ancient-manuscripts/ Incunabulum of the Nurenberg Chronicle (1483), edited by Hartmann Schedel (Photo: I. Pilon/Shutterstock)

Scholars, priests, historians, and followers of the da Vinci Files can now look toward the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (the Vatican library) with anticipation. In a five-year joint project with the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford, the Vatican Library will work to digitize and post online some 1.5 million pages from Greek manuscripts, 15th-century printed books (incunabula), Hebrew manuscripts and early printed books.

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]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:59:11 GMT https://refractor.io/science/vatican-library-is-digitizing-1-5-million-pages-of-ancient-manuscripts/ Brian Dodson