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The inauguration of the Vatican Library by Pope Sixtus IV: Platina (kneeling) is appointed librarian. Chromolithograph after Melozzo da Forli.

A visit to the Vatican Library / by Allen O. Whipple.

Concerning the Badianus manuscript, an Aztec herbal, "Codex Barberini, Latin 241" : (Vatican library) / by Emily Walcott Emmart.

Hispanic manuscripts and printed books in the Barberini Collection / Harold G. Jones.

Elenco dei manoscritti persiani della Biblioteca vaticana : vaticani, barberiniani, borgiani, rossiani / [Ettore Rossi].

A catalogue of the Ethiopic Biblical manuscripts in the Royal Library of Paris, and in the library of the British and Foreign Bible Society; also some account of those in the Vatican Library at Rome ... To which are added, specimens of versions of the New Testament into the modern languages of Abyssinia / and a grammatical analysis of a chapter in the Amharic dialect. With facsimiles of an Ethiopic and an Amharic manuscript.

Antiquities of Mexico: comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix: with their respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions. The whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts / by Lord Kingsborough; the drawings, on stone, by A. Aglio.

La chirurgie de l'Abbé Poutrel : texte picard de 1300 environ / publié par Östen Södergard.

Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis : manuscrito azteca de 1552 / ségun traducción latina de Juan Badiano ; versión española [por Ángel María Garibay Kintana] ; con estudios y comentarios por diversos autores.

Raccolta di pitture etrusche tratte dagli antichi vasi esistenti nella Biblioteca Vaticana ed in altri musei d'Italia / [Anon].

Bibliotheca orientalis Clementino-Vaticano / Josephus Simonius Assemanus ; avec une fostface par Joseph-Marie Sauget.

The library of Pico della Mirandola / by Pearl Kibre.

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La chirurgie de l'Abbé Poutrel : texte picard de 1300 environ / publié par Östen Södergard.

Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis : manuscrito azteca de 1552 / ségun traducción latina de Juan Badiano ; versión española [por Ángel María Garibay Kintana] ; con estudios y comentarios por diversos autores.

Raccolta di pitture etrusche tratte dagli antichi vasi esistenti nella Biblioteca Vaticana ed in altri musei d'Italia / [Anon].

Bibliotheca orientalis Clementino-Vaticano / Josephus Simonius Assemanus ; avec une fostface par Joseph-Marie Sauget.

The library of Pico della Mirandola / by Pearl Kibre.