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...greatest depository of religious and secular manuscripts and manuscript art is the Vatican Library in Rome; its archives of some 566,000 books and documents, dating from as far back as 2,000 B.C., form an irreplaceable record. But if the library were destroyed, the substance and art of its contents would not be lost. Eight years ago the Jesuit fathers of Missouri's Roman Catholic St. Louis University got permission to microfilm some 30,000 key Vatican Library manuscripts. Backed financially by the Knights of Columbus, they have now recorded a staggering 11 million pages from such works...
...Urbino Bible (see color pages) was meant to outdo in magnificence any previous manuscript. To comply with the duke's wishes, a noted Florentine bookseller commissioned one Ugo Comilli to copy the text on milk-white vellum of calf or sheepskin ; three artists whose names have been lost illuminated key pages. The finished product passed into the safekeeping of the Vatican Library in the mid-17th century, was last displayed in 1950 on the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Vatican Library, and is currently kept in a massive oak cabinet in the Vatican's special storage...
...University's new $4,500,000 Pius XII General Library, to be completed early next year, the color slides of the Urbino Bible, along with films of all the other photographed works will be on ready tap for scholars. St. Louis University has now become a center for manuscript research previously possible only at the Vatican. To make sure that the film stands as good a chance of survival as the originals, the negatives will be kept in a special fireproof, burglarproof vault, under strict temperature and humidity controls. That the film will never become the sole record...
...translator of Shakespeare, Goethe, Shelley, finished the novel in 1955, after almost a decade's work, and during a period of "thaw"' and official absentmindedness sent it to an Italian Communist publisher (TIME, Dec. 9). Before long the Reds did an ideological double take and demanded the manuscript's return, but the publisher refused. This English translation reveals the novel (which begins in 1903 and ends in 1929, with an epilogue carrying the action beyond World War II) as a biography of Pasternak's own generation, described by Poet Alexander Blok as "the children of Russia...
...Secretary of State William Rountree and State Department Counselor G. Frederick Reinhardt, along with Dulles and Jackson. President Eisenhower and Dulles, working together at the White House, edited the next draft. After retyping, this edited version underwent still another Eisenhower tooling. The White House secretarial staff again typed the manuscript, just in time for Ike's departure for New York, the evening before he delivered his speech...