The Digital Vatican Library: paths and perspectives
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36181/digitalia-00133Keywords:
Vatican Apostolic Library, manuscripts, digitization, Missal, SacramentaryAbstract
This contribution briefly retraces the steps that led the Vatican Apostolic Library to launch its manuscript digitization campaign (which began in 2010), and its development through various projects made possible by the support of benefactors. It also highlights how the Library may contribute to the MOL Liturgica project. The paper includes some reflections on how the Library has managed the changes brought about by digitization—balancing radical innovation with a continued commitment to the preservation and scholarly study of the manuscript heritage. Within the digitization workflow developed by the Vatican Library, particular emphasis is placed on the preliminary phase of manuscript analysis and study.
Downloads
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2025 Claudia Montuschi
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
The Authors publishing their contributions on this journal agree to the following conditions:
- The Authors detain intellectual property rights of their work and transfer the right of first publication of the work to the journal, under the following Licence: Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Italy (CC BY-SA 3.0 IT). This Licence allows third parties to share the work by attributing it to the Authors and clarifying that the work has been first published on this journal.
- Authors can sign other, non-exclusive licence agreements for the dissemination of the published word (e.g. to deposit it in an institutional archive or publish it in a monography), provided that they state that the work has been first published on this journal.
- Authors can disseminate their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their personal websites) after its publication, to potentially enhance knowledge sharing, foster productive intellectual exchange and increase citations (see The Effect of Open Access).
