Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Biblioteca Barberiniana Manuscripts

Source

Vatican Library.

Preferred Citation

Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Biblioteca Barberiniana Manuscripts (BBR), University of Notre Dame Archives (UNDA), Notre Dame, IN 46556

Scope and Content

Correspondence and manuscripts in the Barberini collection of the Vatican Library, including documents concerning activities of Pope Urban VIII, a member of the Barberini family. The Vatican Library's manuscript collections are divided according to language group; languages using the Latin alphabet are classified as Latin. The Barberini Library contains over 10,000 Latin codices; this microfilm contains Barberini Latin codices 8617-8660.

In Latin, Italian, and French.

Background

Library founded by Francesco Barberini in 1632, acquired and made part of the Vatican Library by Pope Leo XIII in 1902.

Index :

 Biblioteca apostolica vaticana.  Biblioteca Barberiniana. 
 Barberini, Francesco, 1597-1679. 
 Urban, VIII, Pope, 1568-1644. 
 Barberini family.