RE: More catholic apologies, what next ?

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tazzygirl -> RE: More catholic apologies, what next ? (11/27/2009 7:03:13 PM)
You are certainly entitled to your desire to seek that knowledge. My concern is losing the original works. Historically, original works of arts have always been protected. I do wish they were readily accessible... however, many are fragile. You object to the lack of access. I object to the damage. A happy medium would be copying by hand. Again, it must be handled, dangerous in itself for some articles.

Aneirin -> RE: More catholic apologies, what next ? (11/27/2009 7:15:35 PM)
My thoughts are, we as adults are old enough to make our own judgements on what we read, we don't need guidance from priests, we can accept or reject what we believe is truth. But books that are old, fragile and unobtainable are no use, if what they contain are kept from people, they may as well be something other, a vase maybe, if they are not allowed to be opened. The other thing is, old things decay, they are decaying all the time, if efforts are not made to rerecord the contents, what is left will be lost to the human race forever. If not decay, there are insects, bacteria and the elements to consider, as anything made of the material of this planet is created and destroyed to be made again, we cannot halt the action of nature.Conservation is just delaying decay

tazzygirl -> RE: More catholic apologies, what next ? (11/27/2009 7:21:39 PM)
You do notice i do not object to your desire to know... only the method of how you would obtain that knowledge.

Hierodule -> RE: More catholic apologies, what next ? (11/27/2009 8:55:20 PM)
Aneirin , your fears are a little unfounded. The vatican library isn't some deep dark secret. They lent part of their collection to the library of congress as an exhibit a few years ago. The library also has an online catalog here http://www.vaticanlibrary.va/home.php?pag=sceltacat.Of course the catalog is in Italian . But if you are interested in finding translations you could start by searching titles. You can simply type in A and all manuscripts that start with that letter will come up in the search. The library contains printed books as well as rare, hand written, hand decorated manuscripts. These manuscripts are one of a kind and written mostly in Latin or ancient Greek. Do you read Latin? or ancient Greek? If not, scans of these manuscripts would be useless to you. The manuscripts are made available to historians or others who have a use for them. Also, the collection is mostly Catholic writing and would seem like hog wash to someone who doesn't believe that the Universal, Catholic and Apostolic is the end all be all of Christianity. But if you are interested in the literary history of the Church, I am sure you could find translated excerpts, or works that site most of these manuscripts, if you cared to do the research. No need to call for the destruction of priceless works of art.

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