![]() ![]() 7223) and one of the oldest known Palaeo-Slav manuscripts ( Vat. Peter's two Letters ( Papyrus Bodmer 8), the so-called "Codex B", one of the two surviving fourth-century Bibles ( Vat. ![]() 623.Īmong the biblical manuscripts are listed the oldest known example of St. 1291), not to mention the extremely precious fragment of a palimpsest of Menander, discovered a few years ago in Vat. 3868), important manuscripts of Plato ( Vat. Today, the momentous cultural items that are kept in the Vatican Library include, in the classical sector, the palimpsest of Cicero's De Republica ( Vat. There are also 300,000 coins and medals, as well as 100,000 prints and an important collection of ancient engravings. In the meantime, the 1,000 early manuscripts have become 150,000. On 22 November 2006 the Bodmer Papyrus 14-15, generously donated to His Holiness Benedict XVI by the Sally and Frank Hanna Family Foundation and the Solidarity Association (U.S.A.), and the Mater Verbi/Hanna Papyrus Trust, was deposited in the Vatican Apostolic Library.ĭuring the five and a half centuries between these two dates, despite various adversities, such as the losses occasioned by the Lansquenets during the Sack of Rome (1527) and the transfer of manuscripts to Paris in the Napoleonic period, the Vatican Apostolic Library was faithful to the mandate it had received to enrich, safeguard and preserve with the proper care the cultural treasures entrusted to it and to make them available to qualified scholars. Thus, today's Vatican Apostolic Library came into being. Two dates: on 30 April 1451, Pope Nicholas V established with a Brief a library " pro communi doctorum virorum commodo" (to facilitate the research of scholars). Scriptor Graecus, Vatican Apostolic Libraryīodmer Papyrus 14-15 arrives at the Vatican
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