#Vatican and Bodleian libraries to offer rare collections online | World news | guardian.co.uk
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Six centuries after it was founded by Pope Nicholas V for “the common convenience of the learned”, the treasures of the Vatican library are to become accessible to scholars and the public alike via the internet.
Greek manuscripts of works by Homer and Plato, perhaps the earliest Hebrew codex in existence and scores of early printed Italian books are among thousands of texts that will be made freely available online by the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV) and Oxford University’s Bodleian library.