14 Facts About Vatican Library

Vatican Library is a research library for history, law, philosophy, science, and theology.

The Vatican Library is open to anyone who can document their qualifications and research needs.

Vatican Library's death prevented him from carrying out his plan, but his successor Pope Sixtus IV established what is known as the Vatican Library.

In March 2014, the Vatican Library began an initial four-year project of digitising its collection of manuscripts, to be made available online.

In 1756, Abbot Piaggio conserver of ancient manuscripts in the Vatican Library used a machine he invented, to unroll the first Herculaneum papyri, which took him months.

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When Pope Sixtus V commissioned the expansion and the new building of the Vatican Library, he had a three-story wing built right across Bramante's Cortile del Belvedere, thus bisecting it and changing Bramante's work significantly.

Vatican Library closed for renovations on 17 July 2007 and reopened on 20 September 2010.

Vatican Library was founded primarily as a manuscript library, a fact reflected in the comparatively high ratio of manuscripts to printed works in its collection.

Vatican Library was enriched by several bequests and acquisitions over the centuries.

Vatican Library had just acquired it as loot in the Thirty Years' War.

Vatican Library has a large collection of texts related to Hinduism, with the oldest editions dating to 1819.

The Library was created by Lowrie J Daly, with funding from the Knights of Columbus.

Microfilming of Vatican manuscripts began in 1951, and according to the Library's website, was the largest microfilming project that had been undertaken up to that date.

The Vatican Library opened in 1953, and moved to the St Louis University campus, in the Pius XII Memorial Vatican Library, in 1959.