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• First documents from Vatican Library go online

  2013-01-31 Vatican Radio

  (Vatican Radio) More than six centuries after it was founded by Pope Nicholas V, the Vatican Library announced this week that it has made a first selection of ancient manuscripts available for consultation online.

  The first 256 documents to be digitalised form part of a broader project to make a large section of this prestigious archive freely available to students, scholars, researchers and teachers. The library, founded in 1451, has been supported in this work of digitalisation by a £2 million grant from the Polonsky Foundation and other sponsors.

  Speaking to Vatican Radio on Wednesday, the prefect of the Vatican Library, Mgr Cesare Pasini said it had taken two years to make this first selection of manuscripts available online. He said the majority of the documents have been digitalised as a result of a joint project with the University of Heidelberg in Germany. A similar project with the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford is also underway to make more of the material available as soon as possible.For full details of how to obtain an electronic reader’s pass for access to these documents, visit the website:www.vaticanlibrary.va

   

  The index of available documents is here:

  http://www.vaticanlibrary.va/home.php?pag=mss_digitalizzati&BC=11

• Third Mundelein Authors Annual Reception

  Join us on Wednesday April 10th from 2 to 4pm in the McEssy Gallery to celebrate:

  •  Very Rev. Thomas A. Baima, STD
  • Editor of A Legacy of Catholic-Jewish Dialogue: The Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Jerusalem Lectures (Liturgy Training Publications, 2012)
  • Melanie Barrett, PhD, STD (cand.)
  • Contributor to Science, Faith, & Human Fertility (Marquette University Press, 2012)
  • Rev. Ronald T. Kunkel, STD
  • Contributor to Lift Up Your Hearts (Liturgy Training Publications, 2011)
  • Rev. Edward T. Oakes, SJ
  • Contributor to Explorations in the Theology of Benedict XVI (University of Notre Dame Press, 2012)
  • Contributor to A Man of the Church (Pickwick Publications, 2012)
  • Rev. James Presta, STD
  • Contributor to Lift Up Your Hearts (Liturgy Training Publications, 2011)
  • Contributor to The Liturgy Documents (Liturgy Training Publications, 2012)

  Each author will give a brief presentation on his or her work

  Copies of many titles will be available for purchase and signing by the authors

  Refreshments will be served

   

• Writings of Pope Francis Now Available

  The Library has begun to acquire books containing writings of Pope Francis. Cardinal Bergolio produced few monographs, but he contributed chapters or prefaces to many books over the past twenty-five years. Several of these are available for browsing in the bookcase labeled “Writings of Pope Francis” in the McEssy Center Gallery. Not surprisingly, publishers are rushing to prepare English translations of the Pope’s writings, and to publish biographical works. We will add these to the bookcase as they become available.