Vatican Library is digitizing 1.5 million pages of ancient manuscripts

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Scholars, priests, historians, and followers of the da Vinci Files can now look toward the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (the Vatican library) with anticipation. In a five-year joint project with the Bodelian Libraries of the University of Oxford, the Vatican Library will work to digitize and post online some 1.5 million pages from Greek manuscripts, 15th-century printed books (incunabula), Hebrew manuscripts and early printed books. .. Continue Reading Vatican Library is digitizing 1.5 million pages of ancient manuscripts

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