First 500 Books From The Vatican Library's Massive Digitization Project Now Online

[Antigone]

From Business Insider:

The Vatican Library was founded in 1451 by Nicholas V. It holds some 180,000 manuscripts, 1.6 million books and 150,000 images and engravings.

Last year, non-profit organization Digita Vaticana Oculus was founded with the aim of helping fund the digitization of 80,000 of the manuscripts, or 41 million pages.

They look pretty amazing!

 

[Unix]

Pretty interesting. Now must be about the right time for the kind of preservation measures, just because they wear if read physically.
Quite many to be digitized, about 45-50 times more books than what I'll be able to collect myself and which have not needed to digitize as they have been sold as digital licences.

 

[MikeK]

I was just reading a link Isshinwhat posted about this, fascinating!

It reay makes me wish I know more languages:/

 

[Sword of the Lord]

Epic!!!

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[StRestlessHeart333]

And how can we obtain these books?

 

[MikeK]

The link for the first few is in the article,

digital.vatlib.it

 

[StRestlessHeart333]

Thanks