Vatican Library to Close --But there is good news!

Ancient Vatican library to close
By David Willey BBC News, Rome
One of the world's oldest libraries, at the Vatican, is to close for three years for rebuilding, in an unexpected blow to scholars around the world. The decision to shut the library was made without warning. After the library closes for its summer break in mid-July, it will not reopen until September 2010, the Vatican says…
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And Now For the Good News…

If your research plans include using the Vatican Library during the next three years, there is an alternative. The Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis University holds microfilm copies of 37,000 Vatican Library manuscripts, constituting major portions of the Greek, Latin, and Western European vernacular collections, in addition to materials in Arabic, Ethiopic, and Hebrew. The VFL also has a complete collection of the Vatican Library manuscript catalogues and handwritten inventories as well as an extensive reference collection for all aspects of manuscript study.

For more information on Vatican Film Library holdings, events, publications and fellowship opportunities visit us online at:

http://www.slu.edu/libraries/vfl/


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