VATICAN CITY — Dealing with bug infestations, normal wear and tear and even the occasional thief, keepers of the 15th-century Vatican Apostolic Library face an ever-challenging task. Their latest step ...

Since 2010, the Vatican Apostolic Library has worked to digitize its sprawling collection of more than 80,000 manuscripts, making a trove of rare historical treasures freely accessible to anyone with ...

The Vatican’s digitization efforts are focused on their one-of-a-kind historic manuscript collection as well as some of its oldest books, incunabula books printed during the earliest period of ...

The Vatican holds one of the largest historical collections in existence. These collections contain documents that most people will never see and that only a small group of scholars can access and ...

The Vatican Apostolic Library, which holds one of the world's oldest and most significant collections of historical documents, has hired a British cybersecurity firm to protect its digitized ...

Just a few days before the feast of St. John Bosco, founder of the Salesians, the Vatican Library announced a major project to inventory, digitalize, catalogue and study unique historical documents ...

A collection of rare Christian manuscripts—some dating to the fifth and sixth centuries—will soon be accessible to scholars worldwide, thanks to a first-time collaboration between Brigham Young ...

The Vatican Film Library holds more than 37,000 manuscripts on microfilm from the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, ranging in date from the fourth century AD through the seventeenth century. It holds ...

Take a walk back in time at the Vatican with this blend of antique and super-modern. A reproduction of music in a hymnal from the 1500s is seen in a new exhibit on the Vatican Library at the Vatican ...