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1papyri
Understanding the Vatican Library: a History Open to the Future
This exhibit featues touchable high-quality reproductions of some of the Vatican Library's treasured and beautiful books and manuscripts. The exhibit is housed in a setting which re-creates a mini version of the frescoed rooms of the Vatican Library which is located at the Braccio Carlo Magno on the left-hand side of the colonnade in St Peter's Square, Vatican City.
A selection of actual treasures will also be on display, though not touchable.
The exhibit runs from Nov. 9, 2010 throuth Jan. 31, 2011
This exhibit featues touchable high-quality reproductions of some of the Vatican Library's treasured and beautiful books and manuscripts. The exhibit is housed in a setting which re-creates a mini version of the frescoed rooms of the Vatican Library which is located at the Braccio Carlo Magno on the left-hand side of the colonnade in St Peter's Square, Vatican City.
A selection of actual treasures will also be on display, though not touchable.
The exhibit runs from Nov. 9, 2010 throuth Jan. 31, 2011
5cbellia
ousia; Thank you for the link. It seems accessible. you're lucky to be close enough to see it.
7liamfoley
Take in such exhibitions when they come visit you, despite being a qualified archivist with extensive experience in ecclesiastical archives I found visiting the Vatican Library and Archives an impossible experience, they did not want to let me in, if I had a letter from a cardinal on the other hand ...
I have no idea why a letter from a baseball player was necessary but there you go!
I have no idea why a letter from a baseball player was necessary but there you go!
8Nicole_VanK
Yeah, I know, the Vatican is über-paranoid sometimes. But it's a wonderful collection, and if you prepare your visit... Wow!
9varielle
Here's a panaramic view of a beautiful Czech library which I believe is in a monastery. http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/31/worlds-largest-indoor-photograph-shows-off-fa...
10ousia
Yesterday I visited new Vatican Library. I've never been there yet. It was a guided visit, when the library was normally closed to the people.
My impression in few words? Difficult to say. Surely the general structure embeds in the previous Renaissance palace, so all the architectural constraints had been respected, in particular the hightness of the floor, type of the light (natural and artificial). It can't be considered a modern library, (fortunately!). I would say it seems to me more a museum of the book than a contemporary library. In fact the disposition of the books, the ideal sections in which Vat. Library is divided, the size of the shelfes remain the same. I mean, it was an obliged choice, due to the reasons I said before.
So the general impression is a place not dynamic but static, not flexible to the needs of students, professors. Central point is: patrons have to adapt to the library and not the opposite.
However the refresh was deep and they want to open to the patrons also an historical huge rooms at the third floor in order to satisfy requests of the patrons.
What else? It's a unique place, no matter if you are Christian or not, it's one of the Sapientia's home...in saecula saeculorum.
Ousia
My impression in few words? Difficult to say. Surely the general structure embeds in the previous Renaissance palace, so all the architectural constraints had been respected, in particular the hightness of the floor, type of the light (natural and artificial). It can't be considered a modern library, (fortunately!). I would say it seems to me more a museum of the book than a contemporary library. In fact the disposition of the books, the ideal sections in which Vat. Library is divided, the size of the shelfes remain the same. I mean, it was an obliged choice, due to the reasons I said before.
So the general impression is a place not dynamic but static, not flexible to the needs of students, professors. Central point is: patrons have to adapt to the library and not the opposite.
However the refresh was deep and they want to open to the patrons also an historical huge rooms at the third floor in order to satisfy requests of the patrons.
What else? It's a unique place, no matter if you are Christian or not, it's one of the Sapientia's home...in saecula saeculorum.
Ousia
11ousia
For someone who's able to read Italian, here there's a link for a recent and very important discovery of Spinoza's manuscript belongs to Vatican Library.
http://www.ilgiornale.it/cultura/tra_scaffali_vaticana_spunta_manoscritto_deleti...
Best regards
Ousia
http://www.ilgiornale.it/cultura/tra_scaffali_vaticana_spunta_manoscritto_deleti...
Best regards
Ousia
12papyri
CBS TV 60 Minutes
Featured a visit to the Vatican Library on the program this week's program (7-3-2011).
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/60_minutes/video/?pid=qRlxAgHrMxXIJVJdl7_9UiLtaFdeW...
Featured a visit to the Vatican Library on the program this week's program (7-3-2011).
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/60_minutes/video/?pid=qRlxAgHrMxXIJVJdl7_9UiLtaFdeW...
13papyri
“Lux in Arcana”
Rome’s Capitoline Museums
Runs through Sept. 9, 2012
The exhibit features 100 original and priceless documents selected among the treasures preserved and cherished by the Vatican Secret Archives. The exhibition marks the 400th anniversary of the creation of the Vatican Secret Archive by Pope Paul V. The term secret, meaning personal rather than hidden. Amoung the highlights in the exhibit are Galileo Galilei’s trial documents, Martin Luther’s excommunication, and letters from Michelangelo concerning the construction of St. Peter’s basilica.
Rome’s Capitoline Museums
Runs through Sept. 9, 2012
The exhibit features 100 original and priceless documents selected among the treasures preserved and cherished by the Vatican Secret Archives. The exhibition marks the 400th anniversary of the creation of the Vatican Secret Archive by Pope Paul V. The term secret, meaning personal rather than hidden. Amoung the highlights in the exhibit are Galileo Galilei’s trial documents, Martin Luther’s excommunication, and letters from Michelangelo concerning the construction of St. Peter’s basilica.
14nisgolsand
>13 papyri: - Thank you very much for the news, very interesting, as always. Living in Italy, I heard already about this Vatican exhibition and I'll do my best to see it, or, at least, to get the catalogue.
I'm aware you're really fond only of originals, but I'm afraid they are out of the question.
Kind personal regards.
I'm aware you're really fond only of originals, but I'm afraid they are out of the question.
Kind personal regards.
