Vatican Digitizing its Entire Library into 2.8 Petabytes of Data
The Vatican is digitizing its entire library of 80,000 historic manuscripts and 8,900 incunabula thanks to a donation of 2.8 petabytes of storage space from EMC. The Vatican’s library is one of the world’s oldest and its rare manuscripts to be preserved includes:
- The 42 line Latin Bible of Gutenberg, the first book printed with movable type and dating between 1451 and 1455.
- The Sifra, a Hebrew manuscript written between the end of the 9th Century and the middle of the 10th, one of the oldest extant Hebrew codes;
- Greek testimonies of the works of Homer, Sophocles, Plato and Hippocrates;
- The famous incunabulum of Pius II’s De Europa, printed by Albrecht Kunne in Memmingen in around 1491;
- The Code-B, one of the oldest extant manuscripts of the Greek Bible, dated to the 4th Century.
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