Oct 24, 2014 12:30:00

The Vatican Library has digitized 4000 precious ancient manuscripts and released them for free

Since its founding in 1448, the Vatican Library has housed more than 80,000 ancient manuscripts and historical books, including manuscripts, printed matter, paintings, plates and incunabula written by a variety of people throughout history. The Vatican Library and NTT DATA of Japan have signed a contract to digitize 4000 ancient manuscripts, ancient documents, and incunabula and publish them for free on the website.

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Participated in the digital archive business of historical handwritten documents at the Vatican Library | NTT DATA
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The following is an example of published materials.

A bilingual version of the oldest ancient Greek poetry, Iliad , in Greek and Latin.

An ancient Aztec manuscript drawn in

Puebla , Mexico during the Pre-Columbian period at the end of the 15th century.

'Mishhneh Torah ' by Maimonides is a Hebrew manuscript housed in the Vatican Library from 1451 to 1475.

The 'Vatican Vergil ', painted in Rome around 400, is a rare classic document that remains very little.

A painting depicting Japanese dance housed in the Vatican Library around the 16th and 18th centuries.

A Japanese signature document to protect 42 Christians in the library from death in 1613.

Bibliophile in antique lovers in 1946

Tammaro De Marinis has been donated to the Vatican Library Kufic 73 fragments of the Quran.

'God song ' written by Sandro Botticelli for Lorenzo in the 15th century.

You cannot use the materials on the website as materials, but you can browse and enjoy nearly 4000 ancient documents and incunabula in addition to ancient manuscripts. The digitization of these materials is realized by providing technologies such as NTT DATA's digital archive service ' AMLAD'. It costs 2.3 billion yen, and it is a valuable project that plans to digitize all 80,000 materials in the future.