Editing Vatican Library (section)

==Related libraries==

===Vatican Apostolic Archive===
{{main|Vatican Apostolic Archive}}
The [[Vatican Apostolic Archive]], located in [[Vatican City]], is the central archive for all of the acts [[promulgated]] by the [[Holy See]], as well as the [[state paper]]s, correspondence, [[pope|papal]] account books,<ref>{{cite book|last1=von Pastor|first1=Ludwig Freiherr|title=The History of the Popes: From the Close of the Middle Ages. Drawn from the Secret Archives of the Vatican and Other Original Sources, Volume 3|date=1906|publisher=Trübner & Company Ltd.|page=[https://archive.org/details/historypopesfro01pastgoog/page/n88 31]|url=https://archive.org/details/historypopesfro01pastgoog|quote=papal account books.|access-date=28 July 2014}}</ref> and many other documents which the church has accumulated over the centuries. In the 17th century, under the orders of [[Pope Paul V]], the Archives were separated from the Vatican Library, where scholars had some very limited access to them, and remained absolutely closed to outsiders until 1881, when [[Pope Leo XIII]] opened them to researchers, more than a thousand of whom now examine its documents each year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://asv.vatican.va/en/fond/ammiss.htm |title=Table of Admittances to the Vatican Secret Archives in the Last Years |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110506021633/http://asv.vatican.va/en/fond/ammiss.htm |archive-date=6 May 2011}}</ref>

===Vatican Film Library===
{{main|Vatican Film Library}}
The [[Vatican Film Library]] in [[St. Louis, Missouri]] is the only collection, outside the Vatican itself, of microfilms of more than 37,000 works from the ''Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana'', the Vatican Library in Europe. It is located in the Pius XII Library on the campus of [[Saint Louis University]].<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.slu.edu/libraries/vfl/
|title=Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library - Home Page
|publisher=slu.edu
|access-date=13 November 2007
|archive-date=14 August 2017
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814062518/http://www.slu.edu/libraries/vfl/
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> The library was created by Lowrie J. Daly (1914–2000), with funding from the [[Knights of Columbus]].<ref>{{cite web|title=LOWRIE J. DALY, S.J., MEMORIAL LECTURE ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES|url=http://libraries.slu.edu/special_collections/lowrie_daly|website=Libraries at [[Saint Louis University]]|publisher=[[Saint Louis University]]|access-date=29 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140730010807/http://libraries.slu.edu/special_collections/lowrie_daly|archive-date=30 July 2014|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The goal was to make Vatican and other documents more available to researchers in North America.<ref name=MLEC>{{cite journal|last1=C. Krohn|first1=Ernst|title=Notes Second Series, Vol. 14, No. 3|journal=Notes|volume=14|issue=3|pages=317–324|date=June 1957|publisher=[[Music Library Association]]|jstor=891821|doi=10.2307/891821}}</ref>

Microfilming of Vatican manuscripts began in 1951, and according to the library's website, was the largest microfilming project that had been undertaken up to that date.<ref name=KNE>{{cite news|title=Kentucky New Era - Aug 14, 1954|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=266&dat=19540814&id=GOQrAAAAIBAJ&pg=3874,6783861|access-date=30 July 2014|work=[[Kentucky New Era]]|date=14 August 1954|archive-date=15 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215091152/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=266&dat=19540814&id=GOQrAAAAIBAJ&pg=3874,6783861|url-status=live}}</ref> The library opened in 1953, and moved to the St. Louis University campus, in the Pius XII Memorial Library, in 1959. The first librarian was Charles J. Ermatinger, who served until 2000. {{As of|2007}}, the library has microfilmed versions of over 37,000 manuscripts, with material in [[Greek language|Greek]], [[Latin]], [[Arabic]], [[Hebrew]] and [[Ge'ez language|Ethiopic]], as well as several more common Western European languages. There are reproductions of many works from the Biblioteca Palatina and Biblioteca [[Leopoldo Cicognara|Cicognara]] at the Vatican, as well as [[Papal]] letter registers from the ''Archivio Segreto Vaticano'' ([[Vatican Secret Archives]]) from the 9th to 16th centuries, in the series ''Registra Vaticana'' and ''Registra Supplicationium''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.slu.edu/library/special-collections/vatican-film-library/papal-letter-registers.php |title=Vatican Archives Papal Library Registers |website=Saint Louis University |access-date=April 5, 2022 |archive-date=19 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221119182707/https://www.slu.edu/library/special-collections/vatican-film-library/papal-letter-registers.php |url-status=dead }}</ref>