Forbiden Library soon to open to the public (fwd)

Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 01:25:32 -0500 To: voynich@rand.org From: Daniel Harms Subject: Forbiden Library soon to open to the public

This was on another mailing list, but I thought it might be of interest to the list. Does anyone have any more details?

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Greetings, ladies and gentlemen.

The evening news has just announced a rather unexpected decision taken by the Vatican's "Sant'Uffizio" (Holy Office): the whole archive of Holy Office secret and sensitive documents, also known as the "Forbidden Library", currently occupying 27 large rooms in the Vatican Library, will shortly be open to the public for the purpose of academic research. The works, collected between 1542 and 1903, include official records of Inquisition trials and supposed miracle investigations, various tons worth of confidential papers, a huge library of indexed and forbidden books, etc. According to Cardinal Ratzinger "Researchers will probably have quite a few surprises".

Daniel Harms dmharms@acsu.buffalo.edu "Fie on the immortality of cast-iron lawn deer!" -- H. P. Lovecraft

-- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume