Login to Private Area - Vatican Library
Digital Vatican Library. Access to the Vatican Library’s digitized collections: manuscripts, incunabula, archival materials and inventories as well as graphic materials, coins and medals, printed materials (as special projects) currently available.
The Library
In the current year the Vatican Library will use the following calendar: The reading rooms are open from Monday to Friday, from 9:00 am to 5:20 pm. Dates in red indicate days when the Library is closed.
History - Vatican Library
Nowadays, the Vatican Library preserves over 180,000 manuscripts (including archival units), 1,600,000 printed books, about 9,000 incunabula, over 300,000 coins and medals, more than 150,000 prints, thousands of drawings and engravings and over 200,000 photographs. BAV, Sistine Hall, newly reestablished as reading room of printed books.
Admission Criteria - Vatican Library
Admission Criteria. The Library is open to: in exceptional cases, undergraduate students who can demonstrate that they need to consult material which is available only at the Vatican Library. it is not open to High School students, nor, as a rule, to undergraduate University students.
The digital project - Vatican Library
In the current year the Vatican Library will use the following calendar: The reading rooms are open from Monday to Friday, from 9:00 am to 5:20 pm. Dates in red indicate days when the Library is closed.
2022-2023 - ACCESS TO THE LIBRARY - Vatican Library
Sep 13, 2020 · In the current year the Vatican Library will use the following calendar: The reading rooms are open from Monday to Friday, from 9:00 am to 5:20 pm. Dates in red indicate days when the Library is closed.
Manuscript Section - Vatican Library
The Manuscript Section today is made up of more than one hundred collections (or shelf mark series).
Catalog Section - Vatican Library
It was a "dictionary catalogue" in which the cards are ordered by author, title, and subject in a single alphabetical sequence, such as encyclopedia entries. The catalogue was thus improved but the bibliographical descriptions were not adapted to the evolving international cataloguing rules.
Manuscript Collections - Vatican Library
In the current year the Vatican Library will use the following calendar: The reading rooms are open from Monday to Friday, from 9:00 am to 5:20 pm. Dates in red indicate days when the Library is closed.
Information for Readers - Vatican Library
In the current year the Vatican Library will use the following calendar: The reading rooms are open from Monday to Friday, from 9:00 am to 5:20 pm. Dates in red indicate days when the Library is closed.