Vatican City ๐ป๐ฆ
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I am pleased to present to you a large series of illustrations of legendary libraries of the world (real and fictional). The project was started in 2017 and was created for Glose.com.
Vatican City ๐ป๐ฆ
The world's smallest independent state, an enclave in the middle of Rome in Italy ๐ฎ๐น, has one of the world's largest collections of books and manuscripts. Officially, the Vatican Library was founded in 1475, but in fact it is much older. The library funds include about 1,600,000 printed books, 150,000 manuscripts, 8,300 incunabula, more than 100,000 engravings and geographical maps, 300,000 coins and medals. The structure of the library includes the Vatican School of Librarians and a laboratory for the restoration and reproduction of important manuscripts (facsimile).
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