Posted on 03/20/2014 7:45:14 PM PDT by marshmallow
Thousands of rare manuscripts until now accessible only to scholars at the Vatican will go online over the next four years, thanks to help from a Japanese information technology company.
Officials of NTT DATA Corporation and the Vatican Library announced their joint project at a news conference March 20.
The library, founded by Pope Nicholas V in the 15th century, preserves some 82,000 manuscripts dating back to the early centuries of Christianity. Among its treasures are an illustrated edition of the works of the Roman poet Virgil, produced around the year 400, and illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy by the 15th-century Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli.
The library has been scanning its collection for several years with help from various nonprofit groups, and has already digitally archived 6,800 manuscripts, said Msgr Cesare Pasini, the library’s prefect. But so far only some 300 documents are accessible on its website (vaticanlibrary.va).
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I would love to see the behind the scenes wrangling that went on with Henry VIII.
Outstanding.
Will they post the real bible?
Me too. And I’ve always been curious about some of the spoils depicted as looted form The Temple on the Arch of Titus in Rome.
Ping.
This is going to be a treasure trove for scholars in many disciplines.
did the close escape from the one-eyed guy in Italy really happen, as in “The Tudors”?
Spain was going to put all their archives about the Americas online. I wonder if they ever got it done. Haven’t seen anything on it.
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I would like to see the vote tally on the acceptance of Revelations into the Bible.
How many voted no?
“Will they post the real bible?”
No, they don’t want the Protestants to ruin that one too.
Back in my college days my Latin Am history professor noted that the entire Spanish colonial archive was still stored in the original building in Seville, and that it was a matter of concern (that was in the 1970s). You’re right, I believe, a new storage facility was built for conservation of them, but the pile is enormous, so it will be a long time before much is available.
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They have begun the work, but can yu imagine 80 million pages of ancient documents that will have to be scanned and cataloged.
And of course, everything is in Spanish.
But they have some remarkable stuff like documents with the signatures of Cortes, De Soto, and Cervantes asking for a job.
Thanks! Yeah, that archive is the real deal. When the King/Emperor is literally the owner of everything either directly or through feudal obligations, he likes his recordkeeping to be meticulous. :’)
Ruin it by actually reading it?
Portal de Archivos Españoles
http://pares.mcu.es/
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