The Vatican Library a thing of mythic myth mythiness for centuries

[Gaia]

More than 500 documents and 1 million pages digitized. The digitized collection is not just works related to the Church, the current collection of works online include The Codex Borgia (a painted Pre-Columbian Aztec manuscript), Chinese, Japanese, Tonkinese, Annamese, and Mongolian manuscripts.

All here: http://digital.vatlib.it/en/collection?s=&c=3


http://digital.vatlib.it/sites/default/themes/vatlib/img/detail/Borg.mess.1.jpg

[Meggings]

Nice term, "mythic mythiness". There must be millions of documents in the Vatican library.

I recall that Edmond Bordeaux Szekely, when a young fellow, was allowed deep in the dungeonic recesses of the Vatican library where he found and later published a series of Essene books: The Essene Gospel of Peace being the first. He translated them from the original Aramaic I recall.

I found this description: "It was in 1928 that Edmond Bordeaux Szekely first published his translation of Book One of The Essene Gospel of Peace, an ancient manuscript he had found in the Secret Archives of the Vatican as the result of limitless patience, faultless scholarship, and unerring intuition." From this link: http://essene.com/GospelOfPeace/peace1.html

[cursichella1]

[QUOTE=Meggings;978101]Nice term, "mythic mythiness". There must be millions of documents in the Vatican library.

...many of which Vatican officials hope will never see the light of day.