#Vatican Library

[lionofchaeronea]

Map of Hell, Sandro Botticelli, 1480s

#art #art history #Botticelli #Sandro Botticelli #illuminated manuscript #manuscript illumination #Dante #Dante Alighieri #Divine Comedy #Hell #Dante's Inferno #Renaissance #Renaissance art #Italian Renaissance #Florentine Renaissance #Quattrocento #Italian art #15th century art #Vatican Library

[miscellaneous-art]

Menologium of Basil II (958-1025) / Menologium Basilii II, 10th century, illumination of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus.

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Manuscript - Vat.gr.1613 https://shorturl.at/MPST3

«As the story goes, during the rule of the Roman emperor Decius, seven young men of Ephesus were accused of being Christians. Being that a time of harsh persecution towards Christianity, they were asked to recant their faith upon pain of their life; the seven, however, decided to retire to a mountain cave where they fell asleep while praying. When they were found out, the cave was sealed and the young men trapped forever. After 200 (or 300) years, however, the sealed mouth of the cave was reopened by the landowner; to his surprise, the seven men were still there, still sleeping. As they woke up from their long slumber, they were astounded to find that so many years had passed, since they thought they had slept but one day; what surprised them the most, however, was that Christianity was now not only accepted - but it was the very official religion of the Empire. The local bishop was called to investigate and, being told their story, acknowledge the miracle. The Seven Sleepers finally died on the very same day of their awakening, once again praising God. (...)»

In 'folia magazine' https://shorturl.at/jwFO8

#library #vatican library #illuminated manuscript #byzantine #10th century #digital resources #religion

[illustratus]

Vatican Library, c. 1860.

#vatican #library #books #charles soulier #vatican library #bibliothèque du vatican #architecture #europe #photograph #photography

[jamesgraybooksellerworld]

Joannis Climaci doctoris spiritualis abbatis in Mo[n]te synai triginta gradus scale celestis nouiter eme[n]dati, ac impressioni traditi.

Joannis Climaci doctoris spiritualis abbatis in Mo[n]te synai triginta gradus scale celestis nouiter eme[n]dati, ac impressioni traditi.

574J  Climacus, Johannes (approximately 579-approximately 649) Joannis Climaci doctoris                                                                           spiritualis abbatis in                                                                                           Mo[n]te synai trigin                                                                                                      …

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#Antiquarian books #early printed books #mysticism #Rare Book #Spiritual perfection #Vatican Library #vellum manuscript

[escapismsworld]

📍Papal Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican

#dark academia #light academia #classical #academia aesthetic #escapism #academia #books and libraries #classic literature #books #architecture #building #old #historical #exterior #history #papal #basilica #st peter's basilica #vatican #royal core #cottage core #aesthetic #academic #mood #vibe #tumblr

[livesunique]

Apostolic Library, Città del Vaticano, Vatican City State

#art #design #architecture #interiors #library #vatican #apostolic library #citta del vaticano #luxurylifestyle #luxuryhouses #luxuryhomes #history #style

[shredsandpatches]

this is me being very brave and not correcting inaccuracies about the vatican library after seeing a post that mentions it, even though working with vatican manuscript collections and their digital surrogates is my literal job

(nb I don't work for the church in any sort of direct fashion, we're a medieval and early modern studies research center, please do not drag me through the streets, at least for that reason)

#like this is not to minimize the many crimes of the church #or indeed the accessibility issues of rare book and manuscript libraries #but it's not actually locked away and kept secret #it's all being digitized rn #large chunks of it have existed on microfilm and have been hosted in the US since the 1950s #like the wealth of the church is a separate issue but #the access issues for the libraries are not distinctly different from those of secular institutions #also the 'vatican secret archive' is not what people think it is #it's basically just documents related to the private business of popes #it's not called that anymore and it's not particularly secret

[ctyfstars]

Italy 🇮🇹

#aesthetic #books & libraries #books #dark academia #dark aesthetic #libros #dark romanticism #romantic academia #winter #italy #travel #vatican #poetry #poems and poetry

[sabakos]

Which Ancient Greek philosopher would make the best stand up comedian?

Hmm, that's a tough one. Probably one of the skeptics? I feel like stand-up comedians are always making some sort of skeptical commentary on society, and one of the earlier followers of Pyrrho, Timon of Phlius, seems to have written some sort of satirical poetry that very well may have been intended to be read before an audience. Or maybe Diogenes or one of the later Cynics could do some avant-garde performance art in a similar manner of challenging societal values, some of the later Cynics apparently adopted a style called Spoudaiogeloion from Old Comedy which was meant to convey serious social criticism through humor.

Alternatively the copout answer here is that some Ancient Greek philosophers were also Comic poets, which is probably the closest thing to stand-up comedy. But none of their works survive in enough fragments to really assess whether or not they were all that funny, Epicharmus of Kos is probably the best preserved of these and I don't think there's any more than a few consecutive lines of his work, not really enough to provide context.

Or perhaps it makes more sense to turn it around an consider the Ancient Greek Comic poets themselves as philosophers. In that case it's probably almost certainly Menander, the dominant poet of Early Hellenistic era "New" Comedy, whose plays touched on more everyday themes than Aristophanes or the poets of "Old" Comedy, and were quoted from extensively by later authors for their philosophical commentary on society. The manuscripts of Menander's plays that were known to the Byzantines, uh, "disappeared" at some point during the late middle ages or maybe the renaissance, but between the excerpts and a large amount of papyri fragments (they were extremely popular in the ancient world!), classicists have been able to piece together one complete play, The Grouch, and large portions of about six or seven others. So if we can consider Menander a philosopher I think he's certainly got the best case for being a stand-up comedian.

#part of me wants to believe there's still an edition of the 23 byzantine menander plays sitting misfiled in the vatican library somewhere #i think one of the medicis claimed to have a copy at some point and their library was “acquired” by the vatican? #jakob burkhardt apparently looked for it but didnt find anything

[deadpresidents]

Do you know of any strange or unusual gifts that presidents have given to foreign personnel and leaders? I remember when President Obama gifted Queen Elizabeth an iPod and was wondering if other presidents had given stranger gifts.

This will always be my favorite story about Presidential gift exchanges: the whirlwind Christmas Eve visit to the Vatican when Pope Paul VI gave President Lyndon B. Johnson a gorgeous oil painting of a Nativity scene from the 15th Century and LBJ gave the Pope a bronze bust of himself -- an item which any of you can still buy today at the LBJ Library.

#Presidents #History #Lyndon B. Johnson #LBJ #President Johnson #Presidential Gifts #Diplomacy #LBJ Library #Pope Paul VI #Vatican #Pope Saint Paul VI

[nemzetikonyvtar]

Az Országos Széchényi Könyvtár ajándéka Ferenc pápának

Őszentsége Ferenc pápa megérkezett Magyarországra. A nemzeti könyvtár büszke arra, hogy az általa újonnan kiadott Budai krónika díszmásolata is helyet kaphatott a hivatalos pápai ajándékok sorában.

A Budai krónika az első Magyarországon nyomtatott könyv, 2023. pünkösd vigíliáján lesz 550 éves. Hazánkban alig két évtizeddel Gutenberg első kiadványának megjelenése után létrejött a nyomdászat. Hess András munkája egyedülálló az európai tipográfia történetében, hiszen nem ismerünk több példát arra, hogy egy nemzet első nyomtatványában a saját történelmét örökíti meg. A krónika feltételezhetően kétszáz eredeti példányából mindössze tíz maradt fenn, amelyet Szentpétervártól Princetonig a világ híres könyvtáraiban őriznek. A magyar nemzeti könyvtár példánya teljes, eddig kétszer készült hasonmás kiadás róla: 1900-ban és 1973-ban. Az évfordulóra a könyvtár újra megjelentette a művet Schöck Gyula jeles magyar könyvművész gondozásában.

A Ferenc pápa számára készült különleges példány kézi kötéssel, aranyozott rézveretekkel és cabochon (gömbölyített előlapú) krizopráz kövekkel díszített, aranyozott fehér bőrkötéses díszmásolat, amelyhez latin, magyar és angol nyelvű kísérőkötet társul.

Fotó: OSZK/Pohánka Xénia, Bornyi Márton

#library #pope #vatican

[iishmael]

vatican museums

#dark academia #aestethic #painting #it’s actually paintings on the wooden doors of cabinets that used to house the Vatican library collection 🥺 #they’re a bit kitschy but also a Vibe I feel like 🤑 #Rome #Italy #mine

[nebulouswinds]

Honed my ability to cherry pick book themes in high school, when the local tradcath family challenged half the books in the school library, and our librarian asked me why they were challenged

#birch speaks #ah yes the bald truth worked for golden compass but aristotle and dante required more caution #at one point she started giving me the books and a sharpie and told me to block out inappropriate words #(spent half the day in the library for differentiation reasons) #i forget what the vatican publication is now but i used to be able to quote its reasons for banning books #bc those were nearly always what got challenged & it was useful to know why #the golden compass was so funny tbh bc I told her why and she went <i dont see it> and i agreed and she told me to put it back on the shelf

[escapismsworld]

Vatican Museum in Rome.

#dark academia #light academia #academia aesthetic #classical #academia #escapism #classic literature #books #books and libraries #architecture #vatican #museum #royal core #cottage core #aesthetics

[fangirlinginleatherboots]

I know i have Reasons and stuff Wrong With Me but I do genuinely want to see the fall of the Vatican in my life time more than anything. I want the library opened and I want the leadership dragged through the streets and the wealth and artifacts redistributed. I want violence and I want the list of names of every bailed out abusive community leader made public :)

Before anyone goes off on this I am ex-catholic with 12+ years of in depth catholic education who was abused within the catholic church and diocesan school system. Do not bitch at me.

[shredsandpatches]

Creepy Portraits of Vatican Librarians sounds like the debut litfic novel of someone who got a book deal after doing numbers for being mean on twitter but it's also something I ran into while checking some references at work and felt I needed to share with all of you. You're welcome.

#these are all modern but based on 16th/17th c engravings #they come from a four-volume history of the vatican libraries #i have been trying to venmo you