Arctic World Archive - Deposit Summary

Infinity, a service of MediaSet deposited one of the most iconic italian movies: “Mediterraneo” - di- rected by Gabriele Salvatores. The movie won the Oscar for Best Foreign film in 1991. Pisa University deposited manuscripts including those of the Egyptologist Ippolito Rosellini, which still constitute an indispensable tool for scholars of Egyp- tology and several manuscripts from the sixteenth century Pisan Botanical Garden containing precious watercolor plates with drawings of flowers, plants, animals and pros- pects of gardens. Variety Communication, a film distributor with one of the largest Italian heritage film collections, deposited the iconic Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves), directed by Vittorio De Sica (1949). This film, rated as one of the greatest films of all time by many critics, was chosen for its significance for Italian cinema. The Slovakian travel agency Bubo Travel has deposited their 25 year history from travels around the world. Being the big- gest experience travel provider in central Europe, offering tours to 195 countries including the Arctic and Antarctica, 3: 4:

The Diputación de Barcelona deposited the digitalised cop- ies of the first two books of plenary acts from 1812.

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

chive’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. • 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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