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The Vatican library, a treasure of more than 500 years of history

Rome Reports-June 25, 2023-Reading time: < 1 minute
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More than one million printed books, 80,000 manuscripts and 100,000 documents from the archives of historic Roman families are part of the Vatican Library's collection.

The oldest texts are in Latin, Greek and Hebrew. But it also has writings in other alphabets, such as Japanese or Chinese. There are even some without words, such as these from South America.


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