id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-774 Vatican Library - Wikipedia .html text/html 8010 1229 60 In March 2014, the Vatican Library began an initial four-year project of digitising its collection of manuscripts, to be made available online. The Vatican Apostolic Archive was separated from the library at the beginning of the 17th century; it contains another 150,000 items. In 1475 his successor Pope Sixtus IV founded the Palatine Library.[7] During his papacy, acquisitions were made in "theology, philosophy and artistic literature".[4] The number of manuscripts is variously counted as 3,500 in 1475[4] or 2,527 in 1481, when librarian Bartolomeo Platina produced a signed listing.[9] At the time it was the largest collection of books in the Western world.[8] While the Vatican Library has always included Bibles, canon law texts and theological works, it specialized in secular books from the beginning. Main page: Category:Manuscripts of the Vatican Library Vatican Film Library[edit] "Vatican Apostolic Library". "Vatican Apostolic Library Institute Connected with the Holy See". ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-774.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-774.txt