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Digitized Vatican Library Goes Online

The Vatican is digitizing its 82,000-manuscript collection and putting 40 million pages of ancient manuscripts in the Vatican Library online. The project, finally up and running a year after its announcement, uses an armada of equipment to capture the vast range of pages amassed by the Vatican over five or six centuries into one of the world’s most valuable collection of books and manuscripts. Read the complete article at – http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/05/02/digitizing_history_82000manuscript_collection_vatican_library_goes_online.html


To go to Vatican Library click on -- http://www.vaticanlibrary.va/home.php?pag=la_biblioteca

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