A walk through the legendary Vatican library

Founded in 1451 in a time somewhere between the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages, movie conspiracies and literary adventures, where time seems to stop, about 1.6 mio volumes of prints, 80 thousand manuscripts and 100 thousand units of archives, nearly 8400 incunabulas, 300 thousand coins and medals, drawings and fotographs are kept.

Revealed mysteries and still kept secrets. The Da Vinci Code can not merely be fiction. Whoever likes detective games about history or whoever wants to find out more about the mysteries of astrology. Why must we decide between one or the other? At the library of the Vatican we will find records of what the Catholic Church condemned as devil’s work and master pieces by Almagesto and Ptolomeo, the biggest of the ancient mathematics and astronomers and his 4 writiongs about astrology.

The Sistine Library, decorated with frescos from the 16th century, possesses the most important antique manuscripts, codices of western history from the Christian Era until today, valuable incunabulas, prints from different centuries, drawings by big artists und also a laboratory where old manuscripts are being restored.

The current library dates back to 1451 but the origin of the Papal library goes back to the 4^th century when the administration of the Roman Church served as library and archive.

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apartments in Rome will give you the unique possibility to visit the Biblioteca Vaticana. Don’t miss out.  ?

Translated by: Maria