The Vatican Film Library (VFL) at Saint Louis University holds over 40,000 manuscripts from the 4th to the 17th centuries reproduced in microfilm and digital formats principally from the Biblioteca ...

Manuscripts can be described in varying levels of detail, and manuscript collections are cataloged in varying degrees of completeness. Some libraries have described their collections in full, others ...

The Vatican’s digitization efforts are focused on their one-of-a-kind historic manuscript collection as well as some of its oldest books, incunabula books printed during the earliest period of ...

More than 80,000 ancient manuscripts from the Vatican Library will be restored and digitized thanks to an agreement with the Colnaghi Foundation. The initiative seeks to preserve unique documents and ...

Long before cloud servers and computers, medieval Catholic monks preserved the intellectual inheritance of the ancient world by handwriting Greek and Latin manuscripts. Centuries later, the Vatican ...

VATICAN CITY — Dealing with bug infestations, normal wear and tear and even the occasional thief, keepers of the 15th-century Vatican Apostolic Library face an ever-challenging task. Their latest step ...

Ancient manuscripts in the Vatican library penned from East Asia to the Pre-Colombian Americas will be digitized by a Japanese company as part of a global project to make the collection available for ...

The Vatican library announced Monday that it will expand its use of Web3 technologies by awarding nontransferable NFTs (nonfungible tokens) to supporters of the manuscript collections. For the time ...

Hitherto unknown Jewish contributions to medieval learning are being found among the rare hand-written Hebrew manuscripts which are now available on microfilm at St. Louis University. The 800 ...

VATICAN CITY >> Access to the Gutenberg Bible and other ancient manuscripts has just gotten easier. The Vatican Library and Oxford University’s Bodleian Library put the first of 1.5 million pages of ...

From a dark past of once allowing and ordering the censoring, banning and burning of the Talmud and other Hebrew texts, the Vatican has deepened its decades of fruitful dialogue and cooperation with ...