Vatican Library Puts 4,000 Ancient Manuscripts Available Online For Free: sample works in OP

[Ichingcarpenter]

The Vatican Apostolic Library is now digitising its valuable ancient religious manuscripts and putting them online via its website, available for the public to view for free, as well as turning to crowdfunding to help it complete its work.

The Vatican Library was founded in 1451 AD and holds over 80,000 manuscripts, prints, drawings, plates and incunabula (books printed prior to 1500 AD) written throughout history by people of different faiths from across the world.

Samples at the site.













http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/vatican-library-making-4000-ancient-manuscripts-available-online-free-photos-1470911

[dorkzilla]

1. Thanks for sharing this!

I know what I will be doing in my spare time!

[Sunlei]

2. This is very cool. A couple years ago nothing in their collections was online. Now someone needs

to help them with their website code, the Popes server is way slow!

All the ancient information stuck in museum drawers, locked in vaults for hundreds of years needs to see the light! Many of the groups who created & used to own this information are gone from the earth.

[tanyev]

3. Nice.

[Enthusiast]

4. Wow!

The Aztec thing is some weird, wild stuff.

[NaturalHigh]

5. Whoa! Awesome!

Any chance there's also a translation for the text?

[marym625]

6. THANK YOU FOR SHARING!

[nxylas]

7. Crowdfunding?

I guess the Vatican needs the extra money

[packman]

8. I would be more impressed

if the Vatican returned some of that stuff back to the countries of origin, especially those taken during the conquest of South America.

[Yavin4]

9. Isn't most of this stuff stolen? n/t

[ctsnowman]

10. Thanks for the post.

[etherealtruth]

11. Awesome, thank you!

[niyad]

12. well, one nice thing the vatican is doing, anyway.