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    The Vatican Apostolic Library (Latin: Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Italian: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana), more commonly known as the Vatican Library...
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  • See Vatican Apostolic Archive Vatican Library Vatican Publishing House Vatican Basilica, better known as St. Peter's Basilica Vatican Museums Vatican Palace...
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    over the centuries. Pope Paul V separated the Secret Archive from the Vatican Library, where scholars had some very limited access, and the archive remained...
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  • The Vatican Film Library is a film archive established in 1959 by Pope John XXIII. The collection comprises over 8,000 films including historic films,...
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    Vatican City (/ˈvætɪkənˈsɪti/ ), officially the Vatican City State (Italian: Stato della Città del Vaticano; Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is a...
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    Catholic Church and the Holy See, private and public chapels, Vatican Museums, and the Vatican Library, including the Sistine Chapel, Raphael Rooms, and Borgia...
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    The Vatican Obelisk is an Egyptian obelisk, one of the thirteen ancient obelisks of Rome. This obelisk is located in St. Peter's Square, in Vatican City...
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    Apostolic See, is the central governing body of the Catholic Church and the Vatican City State. It encompasses the office of the pope as the bishop of the...
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    flag of Vatican City was adopted in 1929, the year Pope Pius XI signed the Lateran Treaty with Italy, creating the new independent state of Vatican City...
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    A library is a collection of books, and possibly other materials and media, that is accessible for use by its members and members of allied institutions...
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    The Vatican Museums (Italian: Musei Vaticani; Latin: Musea Vaticana) are the public museums of Vatican City, enclave of Rome. They display works from the...
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    The Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State (Latin: Pontificia Commissio pro Civitate Vaticana, Italian: Pontificia Commissione per lo Stato della...
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    of the papyri are kept at the Bodmer Library, in Cologny, Switzerland outside Geneva. In 2007, the Vatican Library acquired Bodmer Papyrus 14–15 (known...
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    Erasmus Roterodamus (known usually as Erasmus) and the prefects of the Vatican Library. Portions of the codex were collated by several scholars, but numerous...
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    Borgia Apartments in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican. These rooms now form part of the Vatican Library, and five still retain a series of Pinturicchio...
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  • The Vatican City State is a neutral nation, which has not engaged in any war since its formation in 1929 by the Lateran Treaty. It has no formal military...
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    world in its real geographic appearance which is visible in the so-called Vatican Map of Isidor (776), the world maps of Beatus of Liebana’s Commentary on...
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  • A prisoner in the Vatican (Italian: Prigioniero nel Vaticano; Latin: Captivus Vaticani) or prisoner of the Vatican described the situation of the pope...
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    of Wisdom or, Wisdom of Solomon, is abbreviated as Sap. EBE - National Library of Greece aliquot – some catenae, catenarum – chain, chains (abbreviated...
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  • The politics of Vatican City take place in a framework of a theocratic absolute elective monarchy, in which the Pope, religiously speaking, the leader...
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    The post of Governor of the Vatican City State (Italian: Governatore dello Stato della Città del Vaticano) was held by Marchese Camillo Serafini from...
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    The name of the prayer book reflects the fact that it is held in the Vatican library. The text has become widely known from 1859, when influential Croatian...
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    A Vatican passport (Italian: passaporto vaticano) is a passport issued by the Holy See or by Vatican City State. The Holy See issues diplomatic and service...
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    Only seven leaves of the manuscript survive, four of which are in the Vatican Library (MS Vat. lat. 3256), and the remaining three in the Staatsbibliothek...
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    illegitimate (bastardus). The manuscript is now Reg. lat. 1283 in the Vatican Library. Barry Cunliffe, Bretons and Britons: The Fight for Identity (Oxford...
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    The economy of Vatican City is mainly supported financially by the sale of stamps, coins, medals, and tourist mementos as well as fees for admission to...
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  • a public library at San Marco, Florence, based on the collection of Niccolò de' Niccoli. 1448 – Pope Nicholas V founds the Vatican Library in Rome. 1450...
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    Apostolic Vatican Library]. Vat. Gr. 177. Late 13th century Milanesi (1996). Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana [The Apostolic Vatican Library]. Urbinas Graecus...
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    are the Codex Vaticanus in the Vatican Library, the Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Alexandrinus in the British Library, and the Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus...
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    Leo Allatius (category Prefects of the Vatican Library)
    – January 1669) was a Greek scholar, theologian, and keeper of the Vatican library. Leo Allatius was a Greek, born on the island of Chios (then part of...
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