Vatican Library

The Vatican Library was a frequent haunt of mine, and since I had been going there for so many years, even the rotation of the Swiss guards in their seemingly ridiculous uniforms who checked my documentation came to know me, each in their turn, a face plucked from the indistinct sea of greying scholarly types all eager to plunder some obscure text, to worship at the spine's edge of the Codex Borgia.

Excerpt from Codex Infinitum Kane X. Faucher 2010

The Bibliotheque Nationale and the Vatican Library are the only close contenders I can think of.

Archive 2009-04-01 Dafydd 2009

The Bibliotheque Nationale and the Vatican Library are the only close contenders I can think of.

Manuscripts on the web: The British Library Dafydd 2009

Normally a sanctuary of scholarly meditation, the Vatican Library has been the scene of unusually hectic activity lately, as word has spread that it will close in July for a three-year renovation.

Vatican Library renovations 2007

Normally a sanctuary of scholarly meditation, the Vatican Library has been the scene of unusually hectic activity lately, as word has spread that it will close in July for a three-year renovation.

Archive 2007-06-01 2007

The Vatican Library is the first among the great libraries of the world in the importance of its materials, but in the number of its manuscripts a few libraries surpass it, and in the number of printed books it is surpassed by many.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

The assertions that the Vatican Library was the property not of the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

On one of the phials mentioned by Röstell was found the inscription Sanguis Saturnini.] [Footnote 110: In the Vatican Library is a small relic-case, marked with the monogram, of great simplicity and consequent antiquity.

The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome Charles Michael Baggs

"For many years we've been neighbors, and we use the Vatican all the time: Our fellows are some of the people who are first in in the morning at the Vatican Library," he said.

Galileo honored, even by Vatican, on anniversary 2011

"For many years we've been neighbors, and we use the Vatican all the time: Our fellows are some of the people who are first in in the morning at the Vatican Library," he said.

Galileo honored, even by Vatican, on anniversary 2011