Do Epistle Letters Still Exist in Vatican?

[KindofScared]

I don’t know where I heard this but I was shocked. I heard that the Vatican owned the original hand written letters by The Apostle Paul. I did not think any original Biblical documents still existed. Does the Vatican own such documents? I would not think so… but that’s why I am asking here.
Thanks

 

[VicTorDominican]

I don’t know where I heard this but I was shocked. I heard that the Vatican owned the original hand written letters by The Apostle Paul. I did not think any original Biblical documents still existed. Does the Vatican own such documents? I would not think so… but that’s why I am asking here.
Thanks

No, but they have a ton of other originals, like the original letter King Henry VIII sent to the pope to ask for an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.

 

[Joe_5859]

None of the original copies of the documents of Sacred Scripture are still around.

 

[TimothyH]

Much of what the vatican does have is going online for use by the general public. Plans have been in the works to do so for some time and I know that a pilot project has been done to test the technology.

The digitization of 80,000 manuscripts of the Vatican Library, it should be realized, is not a light-hearted project. Even with only a rough calculation one can foresee the need to reproduce 40 million pages with a mountain of computer data, to the order of 45 petabytes (that is, 45 million billion bytes). This obviously means pages variously written and illustrated or annotated, to be photographed with the highest definition, to include the greatest amount of data and avoid having to repeat the immense undertaking in the future.

vaticanlibrary.va/home.php?pag=in_evidenza_art_00115&ling=eng&BC=11

-Tim-

 

[Joe_5859]

Much of what the vatican does have is going online for use by the general public. Plans have been in the works to do so for some time and I know that a pilot project has been done to test the technology.

The digitization of 80,000 manuscripts of the Vatican Library, it should be realized, is not a light-hearted project. Even with only a rough calculation one can foresee the need to reproduce 40 million pages with a mountain of computer data, to the order of 45 petabytes (that is, 45 million billion bytes). This obviously means pages variously written and illustrated or annotated, to be photographed with the highest definition, to include the greatest amount of data and avoid having to repeat the immense undertaking in the future.

vaticanlibrary.va/home.php?pag=in_evidenza_art_00115&ling=eng&BC=11

-Tim-

That will be one awesome website.

It’s times like this that make me see the wisdom in not immediately jumping after every new technology. Can you imagine if the Vatican had started this project back in the 80s or even the 90s? Even in the early 2000s, digital pictures were often of varying quality. If they had started all this back then, they’d be redoing all that work all over again with better cameras.

 

[TimothyH]

That will be one awesome website.

It’s times like this that make me see the wisdom in not immediately jumping after every new technology. Can you imagine if the Vatican had started this project back in the 80s or even the 90s? Even in the early 2000s, digital pictures were often of varying quality. If they had started all this back then, they’d be redoing all that work all over again with better cameras.

I was trying to figure out who the storage vendor for that 45 petabyte storage array is. Boy, I’d like to win that bid. That a biblical size storage array!

One day you will be able to run a search across 45 million pages of manuscripts, everything from the dead sea scrolls to the latest encyclical. So much for conspiracy theorists who cry about the “Secret Vatican Library.”

Back to the OP though, I’m not sure what early copies of the scriptures the vatican has. That is a good question, and I’d sure like to be able to see that stuff online.

-Tim-

 

[patrick457]

I was trying to figure out who the storage vendor for that 45 petabyte storage array is. Boy, I’d like to win that bid. That a biblical size storage array!

One day you will be able to run a search across 45 million pages of manuscripts, everything from the dead sea scrolls to the latest encyclical. So much for conspiracy theorists who cry about the “Secret Vatican Library.”

Back to the OP though, I’m not sure what early copies of the scriptures the vatican has. That is a good question, and I’d sure like to be able to see that stuff online.

-Tim-

That’s pretty simple: Codex Vaticanus. Oh yes, and Papyrus 75.

But the OP’s question made me think: why is it that folks always think that the Vatican possesses something valuable like the original autographs of the Bible and not, say, the Patriarchate of Constantinople or the monks of Ethiopia or the Southern Baptist Convention? You’d think that if that was indeed the case wouldn’t that prove the validity of the Catholic Church (unless of course it was confiscated from those true ‘Bible Christians’).