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...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 as St. Thomas Aquinas' original manuscript, Summa Contra Gentiles, and the famed 4th century Codex Vaticanus copy of the Bible (TIME, April...
...April 25]. Isn't most of the useful, worthwhile knowledge of the past fairly well represented in libraries throughout our country now? How many people do you think will feel a burning interest in a medieval monk's "musical notation," or even in the 4th century Codex Vaticanus? If there is such value in antiquity, why not transport the Sphinx pebble by pebble (or at least an Egyptian pyramid) and set it up in some suitable bare spot...
...more for a permanent endowment. Thus, because of the dream of two of its priests, St. Louis is now well on the way to becoming an outstanding world center for the study of Western thought. Among the filmed treasures it will have: the 4th century Codex Vaticanus, one of the oldest and most important copies of the Bible; the 6th century Codex Marchalianus, containing the complete Old Testament prophets; the original manuscript of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Contra Gentiles...
...your April 30 article "Treasure in Microfilm," reference is made to the "4th Century Codex Vaticanus, a Greek Bible with the oldest and most important extant copy of the New Testament...
...Codex Sinaiticus is equally old and its New Testament is complete. Missing from the New Testament of the Codex Vaticanus' is a portion of Hebrews beginning at 9:25, the pastoral Epistles, the Epistle to Philemon and the Apocalypse...