This area of the Vatican Secret Archives is known as the “Gallery of the Metallic Shelves.” It houses records of the Roman Curia and other material. (Photo courtesy of Vatican Secret Archives and VdH Books/CNS)
Posted on 10/01/2014 6:16:47 PM PDT by marshmallow
The archives, or Archivum Secretum Apostolicum Vaticanum, contain historical records chronicling intriguing historical events. Its contents, once plundered by Napoleon and moved to Paris, span 12 centuries.Read more details here
This area of the Vatican Secret Archives is known as the “Gallery of the Metallic Shelves.” It houses records of the Roman Curia and other material. (Photo courtesy of Vatican Secret Archives and VdH Books/CNS)
A prelate studies Inquisition documents in the Vatican Archive. (Photo by Arturo Mari, L’Osservatore Romano, HO via AP)
The signature of astronomer Galileo Galilei from the records of his trial. (Photo by Vatican Secret Archives via CNS)
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Watch out for paper cuts. Wow. That’s a lot of pulp.
"Now, seeing that I have chattered on, I would not sign off thus abruptly if I did not fear I were beginning to disturb you, or rather wear you out...The 21st of January 1629.
Your Most Affectionate Daughter, Suor Maria Celeste"
Interesting that commenters went on about the penmanship of Jefferson Davis, without mention of the more legible (IMHO) writing of Lincoln.
Incredible — talk about bringing history to life!
Thank you, great post.
My daughter worked in an American National Archive deep underground in Minneapolis for a year, as a grad student. I think she said it was one of several that exist in America. It was at least 100’ below the street in elevators. It is humidity and temperature controlled. She got to first hand examine documents from the days of Columbus, Colonial times, and up to WWII. It was something very few people get the honor of doing. She had to wear special clothing too. You can’t bring molds, mildew, bacteria in on your person. She wore one of those John Kerry blue bunny space tyvek suits.
Oh, man ... would I EVER love to poke around in there for a while!! Thanks for posting.
Probably both of those letters were written by clerks and simply signed by Lincoln and Davis — that was a common practice. Lincoln’s letter is also countersigned by Seward, so it appears that would be official correspondence, actually written out by a clerk or secretary.
The muslims would burn all of this.
Went to New Haven, CT and since it is the home of Yale, there is a rare book museum located there.
Is that the secret torture chamber? Yikes! Look out for the albino monk.
And they don’t even LIKE barbecue!
What a great fire that pile of paper would make! Allahu Akbar! /bitter sarcasm
....Or make a good fire to lets just say, burn a FEW KORANS. SARC.
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