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Apostolic Library uploads 256 digitized manuscripts
The Vatican Apostolic Library
Texts, letters and manuscripts previously
available only to experts with access to the Vatican's Library are now just a click away.
The 256 documents
are the first to be made available to anyone, simply by logging on to the
website of the Vatican Apostolic Library. But the project is much more
ambitious.
MONS. CESARE PASINI
Prefect, Vatican Apostolic Library
“It will be all of
the manuscripts. To be more precise, all of the manuscripts that are conserved
within the manuscript deposit in the Library. There are about 80,000.”
The project started in late 2011, and employs the use of technology from NASA to
digitize the documents. But, it will take years.
Once finished, the files will use up approximately 4.5 million gigabytes in
the Vatican Library's external hard-drive.
Source: Romereports
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