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 Dantes 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 librarys prefect. But so far only some 300 documents are accessible on its website (vaticanlibrary.va).
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How do you spell Huguenots in Spanish ?
Will St. Barthololmew’s Day Massacre show up in a word search?
Why start now? Old habits hard to break. Wonder if they are going to publish the documents showing Vatican persecution of Jewish Christians.
History is GOOD!
History available for the masses is BETTER!
Well; at least we got to #14 before the long knives came out.
Can you imagine the WORK that is going to have to be done by Mormons??
Surely; in those 80,000,000 pages are THOUSANDS of names.
Names that will have to be entered into genealogical databases.
Names that will be uttered in hundreds of temple dunk tanks; in proxy baptisms for the formerly unknown.
restornu will be SO happy!
4 not 14.
“Ruin it by actually reading it?”
Nope. Ruin it by cutting books out, altering verses and imposing heretical doctrines on it like sola scriptura.
“How do you spell Huguenots in Spanish ?”
That’s easy: H-E-R-E-J-E
“Will St. Barthololmews Day Massacre show up in a word search?”
Sure. Since that’s French, and involves wild accusations by Protestants who have no idea of what they’re talking about, it might be filed under “Canard”.
“Wild accusations” - poor you.
>> “Will they post the real bible?” <<
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The ‘real’ Old Testament has always been available (the Hebrew scriptures).
The ‘real’ New Testament may not be available to the vatican, but some of it is in the possession of some Jewish archives, but they are reluctant to release anything that supports Yeshua in any way.
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But we’re in the middle of a severe drought and must conserve water...
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Gee, you’re not crying are you?
You need help determining the difference between a LONG knife and a splinter?
Nope. Ruin it by overlapping multitudes if traditions, ignoring verses and imposing heretical doctrines on it like Assumption of Mary.
You need help determining the difference between 4 and 14.
“Nope. Ruin it by overlapping multitudes if traditions,”
Sola scriptura is a tradition. It certainly isn’t seen anywhere in scripture.
“ignoring verses”
How about whole books like Protestants do?
“and imposing heretical doctrines on it like Assumption of Mary.”
Logically the Assumption of Mary can’t be heretical because it violated no orthodox principle. Enoch and Elijah show that in spades. And the Assumption of Mary is not “imposed” on the Bible.
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