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 <dmharms@mailhub.acsu.buffalo.edu>
> 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?
> 
> [Slightly edited]
> 
> >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
> 
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