Notes and Comments
Mary J. Henold|Donna Steichen
Notes and Comments Mary J. Henold Donna Steichen Libraries, Archives, Research Tools The Vatican Library is scheduled to reopen on Monday, September 20, 2010, after extensive renovations. Among the changes installation of a new elevator in courtyard. With generous support from Swedish foundations tenth-century Evangeliary (Vat. Gr. 1522) number manuscripts that belonged earlier Queen Christina Sweden have been restored, library’s incunabula electronically catalogued. On January 25, Congregation Mission’s present provinces Midwest (St. Louis), South (Dallas), West (Los Angeles) merged into Western province headquartered St. Louis. archival collections former incorporated DeAndreis-Rosati Memorial Archives (the archives Province). Since 2001, these Vincentian located at DePaul University Chicago, available Web http://library.depaul.edu/Collections/DRMA.aspx . combined will provide rich resource for history Vincentians Catholic Church United States areas west Mississippi River. Yale Law School Rare Book Library’s Flickr site contains twenty-five scanned portraits attributed Niccolò Nelli leading jurists thirteenth sixteenth centuries taken Antoine Lafréry’s Illustrium iureconsultorum imagines (Rome, c. 1566). Medieval Canon Virtual ( http://www.colby.edu/canonlaw ) makes primary sources Carolingian period through Decretalists, together with papal curial registers, select secondary resources. Project http://ccl.rch.uky.edu offers searchable transcriptions Jean Luc d’Achery’s edition Collectio Dacheriana (1723) Johannes Dobneck (Cochlaeus)’s Dionysio-Hadriana (1525), texts jurists. It soon also host tenth- eleventh-century texts. Exhibitions Restorations From August December San Francisco sponsor exhibition “In Circle Galleon: California Mission Arts [End Page 413] Pacific Rim” Thatcher Gallery at. part celebrations commemorating 400th anniversary death great Jesuit missionary China, Matteo Ricci (1552–1610). seeks promote better understanding cultural interchange among missions Peru, Paraguay, Baja Alta Mexico States, Philippines, Macau rest Japan. In conjunction conference “Legacies Book: Early Missionary Printing Asia Americas” be held 24–26, 2010. For more information, contact Thomas Lucas, S.J., lucast@usfca.edu. As result excavations historical research, portions town Baturyn, capital 1669 1708 Cassock state Left- Bank Ukraine, restored backing various President Viktor Yushchenko. Peter I ordered massacre its estimated 14,000 inhabitants complete annihilation when it resisted tsarist forces. reconstructed buildings fortress timbered church Resurrection erected by Hetman Ivan Samoilovych (1672–87). Still large cathedral Holy Trinity built Mazepa (1687–1708) blended Roman Baroque style triple-nave basilica Ukrainian Orthodox five-domed cruciform semicircular two-tiered exonarthex. After eight years restoration work, Coptic Monastery Anthony Great near Al-Zaafarana foot Red Sea Mountains Egypt has opened door pilgrims. was around burial (251–356) immediately following his death. renovations uncovered fourth-century monastic cells, now visible under glass pilgrims coming monastery still inhabited monks. At cost $14.5 million provided American Center Supreme Council Antiquities, project restored...
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