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    The Vatican Apostolic Library (Latin: Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Italian: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana), more commonly known as the Vatican Library...
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  • The Vatican Film Library is a film archive established in 1959 by Pope John XXIII. The collection comprises over 8,000 films including historic films,...
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    over the centuries. Pope Paul V separated the Secret Archive from the Vatican Library, where scholars had some very limited access, and the archive remained...
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    Church and the Holy See, private and public chapels, the Vatican Museums, and the Vatican Library, including the Sistine Chapel, Raphael Rooms, and the Borgia...
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    Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State (Italian: Stato della Città del Vaticano; Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae),, or Vatican, is a landlocked...
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    Erasmus Roterodamus (known usually as Erasmus) and the prefects of the Vatican Library. Portions of the codex were collated by several scholars, but numerous...
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    The Vatican Obelisk is an Egyptian obelisk, one of the thirteen ancient obelisks of Rome. This obelisk is located in St. Peter's Square, in Vatican City...
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  • Vatican Apostolic Library Vatican Museums Vatican News, including Vatican Media and Vatican Radio Vatican Publishing House Vatican Athletics Vatican City...
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  • The so-called Vatican Mythographers (Latin: Mythographi Vaticani) are the anonymous authors of three Latin mythographical texts found together in a single...
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    Borgia Apartments in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican. These rooms now form part of the Vatican Library, and five still retain a series of Pinturicchio...
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    The national flag of Vatican City, also referred to as the flag of the Holy See, consists of vertical bicolour of yellow and white, with the white half...
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    The Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State (Latin: Pontificia Commissio pro Civitate Vaticana, Italian: Pontificia Commissione per lo Stato della...
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    The Vatican Museums (Italian: Musei Vaticani; Latin: Musea Vaticana) are the public museums of the Vatican City. They display works from the immense collection...
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  • handwritten manuscript of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy found in the Vatican library makes its way to a mob boss in New York City, where it is taken by...
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    of the papyri are kept at the Bodmer Library, in Cologny, Switzerland outside Geneva. In 2007, the Vatican Library acquired Bodmer Papyrus 14–15 (known...
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  • Vatican City is home to some of the world's most striking architecture through several centuries and a world cultural heritage. The area of the Vatican...
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    Apostolic See, is the central governing body of the Catholic Church and Vatican City. It encompasses the office of the pope as the bishop of the apostolic...
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    Vaticana [The Apostolic Vatican Library]. Urbinas Graecus 82. Late 13th century Universitetsbiblioteket [The University Library of Copenhagen]. Fragmentum...
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    member. Pope Leo XIII considered the mostly locked-up and neglected Vatican Library "an infinite treasure for the Church and a monument to its role in...
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    of the Vatican Library is a fresco transferred to canvas by the Italian Renaissance artist Melozzo da Forlì, once decorating the Vatican Library, now housed...
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  • A prisoner in the Vatican (Italian: Prigioniero nel Vaticano; Latin: Captivus Vaticani) or prisoner of the Vatican described the situation of the pope...
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    of Vatican City Vatican Library Vatican Apostolic Archive Music of Vatican City Cricket in Vatican City Vatican Cricket Team Football in Vatican City...
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  • Medical Arts – Hospitals". U.S. National Library of Medicine. Retrieved June 17, 2018. "Nicholas V | Vatican Library & Dum Diversas". Encyclopedia Britannica...
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    Vatican City had an estimated resident population of 882 in 2024, including non-citizens. Additionally, 372 Vatican citizens live abroad, primarily diplomats...
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    of the arts and of science. He was also a great benefactor of the Vatican Library; his interest in archaeology is credited with saving much of Rome's...
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    Vatican Library, Syr. 559 is a Syriac manuscript produced around 1220. It is an evangeliary containing the text of the Peshitta. It is one of the few...
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    approved a proposal by President Butler to offer aid in modernizing the Vatican Library. From 1926 to 1939, the Carnegie Endowment expended some $200,000 on...
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    world in its real geographic appearance which is visible in the so-called Vatican Map of Isidor (776), the world maps of Beatus of Liebana’s Commentary on...
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    included the construction of the Sistine Chapel and the creation of the Vatican Library. A patron of the arts, he brought together the group of artists who...
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  • a public library at San Marco, Florence, based on the collection of Niccolò de' Niccoli. 1448 – Pope Nicholas V founds the Vatican Library in Rome. 1450...
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