The Vatican Library: Inside One of the World’s Most Extraordinary Libraries | Jessie Czebotar

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This week, Jessie Czebotar takes us inside the Vatican Apostolic Library, exploring its history, architecture and some of the remarkable spaces housed within one of the world’s most famous libraries.

We begin with Vatican City and the exterior of the Library before moving inside to explore its reading rooms and the magnificent Sistine Hall, including its decorated pillars, historical imagery and frescoes depicting the great libraries of antiquity.

Jessie also looks at the Library’s historic closed cabinets, known as armadi, and the preservation and storage of its extraordinary collections.

This is an introduction to the Vatican Library and its key features. Jessie will return to some of its imagery and symbolism in greater depth in a future Library Decode.