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).
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicherald.co.uk ...
“Do you think anyone has read that?”
I read it.
“You are delusional.”
No, actually I’m not. And I know much longer posts have been posted here at FR before.
Yes, there are occasionally longer verbal eruptions than yours from other tone-deaf folks. Why should we welcome another and another....and why not just just dedicate this forum's "latest posts" and "breaking news" pages to printing all the fine academic and theological words ever collected in the National Library of Congress for all to read and be edified till they shuffle off this mortal coil?
Popey the Sailor Man famously said, "I yam what I yam what I yam!
No less earnestly I say, "I know spam when it's spammed and when it's being rammed".
Again, links are your friends when you find yourself being carried away.
Leni
If you don’t want to read it, you don’t have to
You’re spending a great deal of time wasting your time and mine with posts that actually say nothing but that you think another post is too long. At least what I posted was in response to a post to me and contained actual information. You can’t claim as much about your posts here and now.
I never heard of them... Israeli?
“If you don’t want to read it, you don’t have to”
It isn’t about reading it, it is about the space on the thread consumed and getting past it. Spam is not acceptable for all the reasons you already know spam is not acceptable.
The reason I complained is not the content, but the length. I read a lot of these forums on a smaller tablet or my phone. It takes forever to scroll through your long posts. Sometimes, it makes the reader pause while it downloads, and downloads your tome.
I am not saying you need to keep it under 140 characters, but you should appreciate the others who need to scroll past your posts.
You should also be considerate of FRs server times and space. Large posts like that are not read, and they remain on the server forever.
That is not how one holds a discussion.
“It isn’t about reading it, it is about the space on the thread consumed and getting past it.”
You’ll survive. If this is really too difficult for you, then I understand.
“Spam is not acceptable for all the reasons you already know spam is not acceptable.”
I didn’t post any spam. If you can’t handle it, I understand. It is quite a bit of information to deal with.
“The reason I complained is not the content, but the length.”
I understand, but your complaint means absolutely nothing to me.
“I read a lot of these forums on a smaller tablet or my phone.”
How you read, or if you read, “these forums” is completely irrelevant to me.
“It takes forever to scroll through your long posts.”
First, it was ONE post. Second, scrolling “forever” is actually just a matter of seconds. Third, I don’t care how long it takes you to scroll through the post.
“Sometimes, it makes the reader pause while it downloads, and downloads your tome.”
Oh, the horrors!
“I am not saying you need to keep it under 140 characters, but you should appreciate the others who need to scroll past your posts.”
Actually how much scrolling someone here has to do because of one long post doesn’t matter to me in the least.
“You should also be considerate of FRs server times and space.”
No, I won’t be. If I feel the need to post a long post, I’ll do it. It doesn’t happen often, so I don’t worry.
“Large posts like that are not read, and they remain on the server forever.”
Oh, the horrors!
“That is not how one holds a discussion.”
Meeting your prerequisites for holding a discussion will never be one of my concerns.
“Actually how much scrolling someone here has to do because of one long post doesn’t matter to me in the least.”
Obviously. Not many friends in your world is there?
“Obviously. Not many friends in your world is there?”
No, actually I have plenty. Project much?
Says the person with ZERO proof.
Do you think Moses is in the ground yet too?
Well; the BOOK says...
Deuteronomy 34:6
He buried him in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is.
If you wish to argue that he is NOT there; go ahead; but you'll still have ZERO proof.
All you can do is make claims; and then bluster and strut that no one else believes them.
One of your fellow travelers has said on another thread that "I'll not waste my time on some anti-Catholic screed."
It wasn't a discussion.
It was a filibuster.
“Says the person with ZERO proof.”
And you have proof? Hypocrisy. Look it up.
“Well; the BOOK says...”
Nothing about Moses not being in Heaven.
“If you wish to argue that he is NOT there; go ahead; but you’ll still have ZERO proof.”
No, he’s in heaven.
“All you can do is make claims; and then bluster and strut that no one else believes them.”
All you can do is deny reality.
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