These files are provided as stipulated in the Library of Congress
WARNING file, please read it if you have not done so already.

These files have been copied from seq1.loc.gov, from the directory
pub/vatican.exhibit. The files are mostly color and black and white
JPEG images of pages from manuscripts and so forth. I have attached to
this file the announcement on the net.

JPEG files (which end in .jpg) are a compressed image (bitmap picture)
format, similar to Compuserve's GIF but somewhat more efficient (that
is, smaller disk files.) You need either a JPEG viewer, several are
available for Unix, DOS, Mac etc, or a program to convert the images
into something you can use. For example, here on World we have a
program 'djpeg' which can convert a JPEG file into an equivalent GIF
file, 'djpeg -G file.jpg > file.gif' would do it.

We have jpeg viewing software for DOS and Windows on World under
/sources/pc/graphics/jpeg/ (a directory), and for the Mac under
/sources/macintosh/graphics/. Help yourself (Note: These are also
available to anonymous FTP users of World, just replace /sources with
/src in the name, for example: /src/pc/graphics/jpeg/).

       -yfnsm




                          ANNOUNCING
                             a new
                        ONLINE EXHIBIT
                             from
                    THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS



    ROME REBORN: THE VATICAN LIBRARY & RENAISSANCE CULTURE

                       an Exhibit at the
                      Library of Congress
                     Washington, DC  20540

                Available by anonymous FTP from
                         seq1.loc.gov
                        (140.147.3.12)

                     /pub/vatican.exhibit



ROME REBORN:  THE VATICAN LIBRARY AND RENAISSANCE CULTURE
presents some 200 of the Vatican Library's most precious
manuscripts, books, and maps--many of which played a key role in
the humanist recovery of the classical heritage of Greece and
Rome.  The exhibition presents the untold story of the Vatican
Library as the intellectual driving force behind the emergence of
Rome as a political and scholarly superpower during the
Renaissance.  The exhibit will be on display in the Jefferson
Building of the Library of Congress from January 8, 1993 through
April 30, 1993.  The online exhibit will be available by
anonymous FTP indefinitely.

    The exhibit is divided into nine (9) sections:  The Vatican
Library, Archaeology, Humanism, Mathematics, Music, Medicine &
Biology, Nature Described, A Wider World I: How the Orient Came
to Rome, and A Wider World II: How Rome Went to China.  Each
section consists of its own sub-directory within the /exhibit
directory and contains the exhibit text for that section and
separate JPEG image files for each object.  This online exhibit
includes not only objects from the Library of Congress exhibit,
but also the alternate objects (brought from Rome to be used if
there were a problem with one of the primary objects) and items
omitted later in the planning process.

    This exhibit will be of interest to Medieval and Renaissance
scholars in particular, but also to art historians, historians of
science or medicine, early music scholars, students of the
humanist movement, students of printing and the printed word,
theologians, scholars of both Far and Near Eastern studies, and
to librarians and information professionals.  Please get the
README file for details on what files this exhibit contains.  If
you have questions about how to use FTP, speak to your local
computer support person.  If you have questions or comments about
the CONTENT of the exhibit, please write to [email protected]
while if you have any questions or comments on the SYSTEM please
contact me.

-- K.D. Ellis

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  K.D. Ellis
  Special Projects Office
  Library of Congress
  Washington, DC  20540-9100
  Internet:  [email protected]
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