Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Address: Delivered at the Opening of the Library of Christian Hall, Chestnut Hill, January 10, 1871
The library of the Vatican at Rome is filled with incalculable treasures. This library was founded by Pope Nicholas V. In 1447. The vol umes are estimated at and the manu scripts, which constitute its chief wealth, at These manuscripts are of inestimable value, and include some of the highest antiquity, such as the Virgil of the fourth or fifth century, a copy of Terence, equally ancient, the celebrated Greek Bible of the sixth century, written in capi tal letters accordin g to the Septuagint version, and from which all the subsequent copies have been taken, and the Gospels of St. John and St. Luke written in the tenth century. There is also the palimpsest, ' containing the treatise of Cicero de Republica, supposed to be of the third century. This and the Virgil are, in the form of books, considered the ioldest manuscripts in existence. There are also in this splendid collection many ms. Bibles in Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, and Arme nian. For one of these, a large Hebrew Bible, so heavy as to require two men to carry it, the.
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