[Darksheare]

I wouldn't doubt it.
The story is that they have several rare manuscripts that all by themselves are historically significant and priceless.
Of course, they are stored away out of sight out of mind.
Even if they ARE small parch fragments.
Considering they the early church did the earliest translations of religious texts, I wouldn't doubt this either.

[Askel5]

=== The story is that they have several rare manuscripts that all by themselves are historically significant and priceless. Of course, they are stored away out of sight out of mind.


I believe the Vatican has always been very accomodating in allowing scholars to study what priceless manuscripts they hold in safekeeping.

And contrary to the "out of mind" notion, it's precisely its preservation of ancient heritage and sense of enduring truth -- as conceived not only by men with benefit of revealed knowledge but those who apprehended same prior to the Incarnation or without benefit of Scripture -- which accounts for the universality (and prodigious footnotes =) of Church teaching.