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Thousands of Rare Vatican Manuscripts to Go Online
The Catholic Herald (UK) ^ | 3/20/14 | Francis X Rocca

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 ...


TOPICS: Catholic; History
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To: vladimir998

How do you spell Huguenots in Spanish ?
Will St. Barthololmew’s Day Massacre show up in a word search?


21 posted on 03/21/2014 7:07:49 PM PDT by Doulos1 (Bitter Clinger Forever!)
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To: Raycpa; Elsie; metmom; boatbums; CynicalBear; Iscool; editor-surveyor; roamer_1
Will they post the real bible?

Why start now? Old habits hard to break. Wonder if they are going to publish the documents showing Vatican persecution of Jewish Christians.

22 posted on 03/21/2014 8:18:42 PM PDT by redleghunter (For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’”)
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To: marshmallow

History is GOOD!

History available for the masses is BETTER!


23 posted on 03/22/2014 3:31:53 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: vladimir998

Well; at least we got to #14 before the long knives came out.


24 posted on 03/22/2014 3:32:52 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: wildbill; teppe; Jeff Head; StormPrepper; restornu

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!


25 posted on 03/22/2014 3:36:05 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: redleghunter
Wonder if they are going to publish the documents showing Vatican persecution of Jewish Christians.


26 posted on 03/22/2014 3:38:14 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

4 not 14.


27 posted on 03/22/2014 6:02:53 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: Gamecock

“Ruin it by actually reading it?”

Nope. Ruin it by cutting books out, altering verses and imposing heretical doctrines on it like sola scriptura.


28 posted on 03/22/2014 6:14:48 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: Doulos1

“How do you spell Huguenots in Spanish ?”

That’s easy: H-E-R-E-J-E

“Will St. Barthololmew’s 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”.


29 posted on 03/22/2014 6:19:29 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998

“Wild accusations” - poor you.


30 posted on 03/22/2014 8:11:13 AM PDT by Doulos1 (Bitter Clinger Forever!)
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To: Raycpa

>> “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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31 posted on 03/22/2014 10:24:53 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Elsie

But we’re in the middle of a severe drought and must conserve water...
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32 posted on 03/22/2014 10:28:11 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Doulos1

Gee, you’re not crying are you?


33 posted on 03/22/2014 10:39:38 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998

You need help determining the difference between a LONG knife and a splinter?


35 posted on 03/22/2014 12:44:51 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: vladimir998
Nope. Ruin it by cutting books out, altering verses and imposing heretical doctrines on it like sola scriptura.

Nope. Ruin it by overlapping multitudes if traditions, ignoring verses and imposing heretical doctrines on it like Assumption of Mary.

36 posted on 03/22/2014 12:46:02 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

You need help determining the difference between 4 and 14.


38 posted on 03/22/2014 12:48:34 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: marshmallow


39 posted on 03/22/2014 12:48:41 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Elsie

“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.


40 posted on 03/22/2014 12:52:07 PM PDT by vladimir998
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