COVID19: Access to the Library

We wish to remind you that the Library will be open to readers until Thursday 15 July 2021. It will reopen on Thursday 16 September 2021.

The Library will reopen to readers on Wednesday 17 March 2021. More information and the self declaration form: https://www.vaticanlibrary.va/en/news/in-evidenza/accesso-covid.html.


We wish to remind you that on Friday 19 March 2021, Solemnity of St Joseph, we will be closed.

OWL n. 18, April - June 2021

OWL n. 17, January - March 2021

OWL n. 16, October - December 2020

Frutto di una ricerca originale, il volume traccia la storia delle memorie concernenti..

Con questo volume i curatori hanno inteso documentare i risultati della loro ricerca su circa cinquecento disegni e acquerelli del XIX secolo..

Il volume offre una nuova edizione del testo del manoscritto Vaticano arabo 368, contenente la storia di Bayād e Riyād (HadītBayādwaRiyād), e la traduzione italiana.

In recent months the Vatican Apostolic Library has completed work on a Permanent Exposition Hall. Comprising two rooms, the new space is located just off the top of the grand entrance staircase to ensure that its visitors do not disturb the work of our readers and researchers ...

On Thursday, 16 September, the Vatican Apostolic Library will reopen to researchers after its customary summer break ....

Since Friday, July 16, the Vatican Apostolic Library has closed its doors to scholars and researchers for the usual summer two-month period. Two months of which only two weeks will be completely closed - exactly from 9 to 22 August ...

The following Regulations are intended above all to assure scholars the working conditions appropriate to a place of study and research.
Therefore, scholars are exhorted to read them carefully and to respects the norms scrupulously.

Scholars who want to access numismatic material of the Library should respects the following norms.

Inventories and Index of manuscript collections in digital version

Manuscripts that can not be consulted for conservative reasons or why temporarily restored or on display.

Printed books collections kept in the external stacks

Preview of the online exhibition on the occasion of the 7th centenary of Dante Alighieri’s death (1321-2021)

The library has promoted a research activity that makes use of IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) technology for the creation of annotations on the folios of the digitized manuscripts (transcriptions, comments on texts, glosses, illuminations, writings, identification of scribes, owners, illuminators) relating to specific selections of manuscripts.

Codices Vaticani Latini 11266-11326 include the lists of the titles of the books owned by the religious of the Italian convents and monasteries, acquired by the Congregation of the Index of Prohibited Books after the publication of the Index librorum prohibitorum by Pope Clement VIII in 1596.

It is possible to order photocopies (only for printed books published between 1601 and 2008), black & white photographs, color photographs, microfilms, or CD-ROMs made from microfilms (in the case of printed books, only if they were published before 2008), from manuscripts or from photographs of objects. Completed order forms may be submitted to the distribution desks or sent by mail to the Library.

It is possible to order photographic or other types of reproductions for publication by using the appropriate order forms. Fees include the cost of the reproductions plus the publication rights.

Anno accademico 2020-2021
Sessione autunnale

Ammessi e riserve sono elencati in ordine alfabetico. Tale elenco non costituisce graduatoria per le riserve.

La Direzione della Scuola Vaticana di Biblioteconomia comunica che, tenuto conto dell'attuale situazione sanitaria, le iscrizioni alla Scuola sono prorogate al 31 maggio prossimo.

Le iscrizioni per l'anno accademico 2020-2021 si aprono il 15 febbraio 2020 e si chiudono il 15 maggio 2020termine ultimo entro il quale dovranno pervenire le domande (farà fede il timbro postale).

Per l'ammissione occorre presentare:

• Modulo d'iscrizione debitamente compilato e sottoscritto in originale (disponibile sul sito WEB della Scuola, in Segreteria o presso la portineria della Biblioteca);
• Curriculum vitae con elenco di eventuali pubblicazioni;
• Lettera di presentazione rilasciata da una istituzione accademica, ecclesiastica, dal datore di lavoro o da persona autorevole;
• Fotocopia del titolo di studio (laurea o licenza canonica) e certificazione degli esami sostenuti;
• Fotocopia di un documento d’identità in corso di validità;
• Due fotografie formato tessera aggiornate.
• Lettera motivazionale contenuta in massimo 2000 battute.

Calendario delle lezioni, delle esercitazioni e dei laboratori

Orario segreteria:

• Lunedì: 9.00-17:30
• Martedì 9.00-17.30

Orario Lezioni, Esercitazioni e Laboratori