As explained in a previous blog post, Special Collections at The Catholic University of America consists of four departments: rare books, museum, university archives, and the manuscript collection, otherwise known as The American Catholic History Research Collection. Although ‘manuscript’ literally means handwritten, ‘manuscript collection’ is used by archivists, curators, and librarians to refer to collections Read More

Mary Ann Glendon tends to inspire contradictions. The Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University and a former United States Ambassador to the Holy See, Glendon has been labelled a modest “water-and-soap type” at one extreme and “the Pope’s bombshell” at the other (see Notes 1 and 2). Much of the confusion about Glendon Read More

“I am sorry that you did not travel from the College to the Ciampino airfield with the President in the helicopter; however, I have found, as I am sure you have, that riding in a helicopter is a questionable undertaking under any circumstances irrespective of who you are with,” wrote John McCone, future CIA Director, Read More

The Vatican Library has digitized over 1000 manuscripts from their collection, and made them publicly available online. Watch this video for more information on the Digita Vaticana project. (Heads up! It’s in Italian) For more great stories, follow us on Facebook (CUA Religious Studies, Philosophy & Canon Law Library) and Twitter (@CUATheoPhilLib)

The Vatican Apostolic Library announced yesterday that it will digitize 1.5 million pages of manuscripts and incunabula held in the Vatican and Bodleian Library in Oxford.  This will include 2,500 books from Greek and Hebrew manuscripts.  The institution has 8,900 incunabula and a catalogue of the incunabula recently published on the internet. Examples “include the Read More