The Vatican is now putting all there Library collection on the net. digi.vatlib.it


The First 500 Books From The Vatican Library's Massive Digitization Project Are Now Online
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Peter Farquhar, Business Insider Australia
Oct. 21, 2014, 9:50 AM 18,506

Bilingual version of the Iliad, with Greek text and Latin translation. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
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.

In March, Japanese IT firm NTT DATA Corp won a four-year, $23 million contract to digitize the first 3000 manuscripts, totaling 1.5 million pages.

The first 500 manuscripts are now available to view, along with 600 incunabula – books or pamphlets printed before 1500 AD.