RLIN helps scholars access Vatican Archives. (Research Libraries Information Network database) (Brief Article)

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Scholars now have help in finding their way through the complexities of the Vatican Archives in Rome; they can search RLIN - the Research Libraries Information Network database. Thanks to a unique project based at.the University of Michigan's Bentley Historical Library, RLIN now contains some 1,450 descriptions of record series in the Vatican Archives, plus 550 agency histories describing the office that produced, received, or archived them. It is the most comprehensive such invent...

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