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Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. Edit Close. Our dream is to convert our historic manuscripts to Piql, and thus be able to give this information to the next generations and to the future. For years, the Vatican Library has fulfilled its fundamental purpose of gathering, preserving and restoring its patrimony of books and documents to make them available to all.
It holds some of the oldest and most sacred texts including notes by artists and scientists such as Michelangelo and Galileo, as well as treaties from all eras in history. This task of preservation and access has been demanding because the consultation of ancient books naturally causes wear, with the risk of deterioration increasing over time.
However, the Vatican is very clear that providing free access to its collections to scholars from around the world is a mandate it would never fail to deliver.
A secure, long term solution was needed to ensure that this history is not lost for future generations.
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