AWA - Memories

The Diputación de Barcelona deposited the digital- ised copies of the first two books of plenary acts from 1812.

• The Vatican Virgil: It was copied in about 400A.D. and it is one of the oldest surviving sources for the text of the Aeneid and it is the oldest and one of only three ancient illustrated manuscripts of classical literature

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Fundación Felipe Gónzalez deposited im- portant political memories, including transcripts of secret meetings, photographs, letters and handwritten notes by the sitting President.

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Infinity, a service of MediaSet deposited one of the most iconic italian movies: “Mediterraneo” - directed by Gabriele Salvatores. The movie won

the Oscar for Best Foreign film in 1991.

The Vatican Library built on its previous de- posit with more ancient manuscripts, making it the

PisaUniversity depositedmanuscripts includ- ing those of the Egyptologist Ippolito Rosellini, which still constitute an indispensable tool for scholars of Egyptology and several manuscripts from the sixteenth century Pisan Botanical Garden containing pre- cious watercolor plates with drawings of flowers, plants, an- imals and prospects of gardens.

Archive’s largest contributor.

The 60 manuscripts are carefully preserved in a limited- access Reserve, within the vaults of the Library, where doc- uments that are particularly important, rare, or delicate can be attended to by the conservators. Including: • One of the most important and precious manuscripts of the Gospels, Hanna Papyrus 1 (Mater Verbi), It was copied in the early third century A.D. and it is one of the oldest surviv- ing witnesses of the text of the New Testament. • The famous De arte venandi cum avibus (On The Art of Hunting with Birds), it is a Latin treatise on ornithology and falconry written in the 1240s by Frederick II, and dedicated to his son Manfred. It's a two-column parchment codex of 111 folios now in the Vatican Library in the Palatina Collec- tion.

Gónzalez sworn in as president in 1982. Photo: Fundacion Felipe Gonzalez.

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