Vatikan Kütüphanesi

Vatikan Apostolik Kütüphanesi (Latince: Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana) daha yaygın olarak sadece Vatikan Kütüphanesi denilir, Vatikan'da Kutsal Makam'da bulunan kütüphanedir. Dünyanın en eski kütüphanelerin biridir ve tarihi metinlerin en önemli koleksiyonlarından birini içerir. 1475 yılında kurulan kütüphanede 75.000'den fazla tarihi elyazması kitap bulunur.^[1] Temmuz 2007'de yenileme çalışmaları nedeniyle halkın kullanımına kapatılan kütüphane 2010 yılı Eylül ayında yeniden açılmıştır.^[2]

Kaynakça

1. Vatican Film Library informational pamphlet
2. Willey, David (17 July 2007). "Vatican Library closure irks scholars". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6901606.stm. Erişim tarihi: 2007-07-17. 

Dış bağlantılar

• Vatican Library home page
• Vatican Library old home page, with online catalog search
• Treasures of the Vatican Library Exposed via The European Library
• Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture, an online exhibition from the Library of Congress.
• On the pornography urban legend, by snopes.com
• Toward On-line, worldwide access to Vatican Library materials (1996). A collaborative effort (pioneered by Fr. Leonard Boyle OP Prefect of the Vatican Library) between the Vatican Library and IBM, the primary goal of which is to "provide access via the Internet to some of the Library's most valuable manuscripts, printed books, and other sources to a scholarly community around the world."
• Vatican to digitize Apostolic Library of 1.6 million volumes for general perusal, PCWorld.com, October 29, 2002. A joint effort between the Vatican and Hewlett-Packard.
• Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library. Saint Louis University library that focuses on the collection of the Vatican Library.
• The Secret History of Art by Noah Charney on the Vatican Library and Procopius. An article by art historian Noah Charney about the Vatican Library and its famous manuscript, Historia Arcana by Procopius.

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