relics in the Vatican Treasury

relics in the Vatican Treasury

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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Lovers of ancient books, scrolls and illustrations researchers can pretend to be playing some of the world's rarest documents in a new exhibition on the treasures of the Vatican Library.


Visitors will get white cotton gloves to increase the feeling of authenticity, although the documents are facsimiles of high quality.

The exhibition, which opens to the public on Wednesday at the Plaza San Pedro, recreating a mini version of the halls of the Vatican Library, which owns more than 1.6 million rare books, manuscripts, coins, first editions and wax seals .

Among the facsimiles of documents that can be played is the Borgianus Latinus, a missal used for Christmas created by Pope Alexander VI, who was appointed to office in 1492, the same year that Columbus discovered America.

Another is an edition of Dante's Divine Comedy, 1564.

Exhibited some of the original can not be touched, like a page from the Koran in the seventh century.

The exhibit, called "Understanding the Vatican Library: A History Open to the Future" is in the Braccio Carlo Magno, in the left hand column of the Plaza San Pedro and is open until 31 January.

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With cuidado.Un Vatican librarian, using white gloves, turn the page of a copy of "Borgianus Latinus" a prayer book for use at Christmas by Pope Alexander VI.

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Fragmento.La parchment page from a Qur'an in the 7th century, one of the rare pieces that can be seen in the sample.

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All listo.Una view of the hall where they are shown the facsimile of ancient books.

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Reliquia.Una edition of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri, 1565, one of the relics of exposure.

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Naciente.Un medieval facsimile of a scroll of the Bible dating from the fourth century AD, found in ancient Greece.

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