Paul Canart: Paleografia e codicologia greca: una rassegm bibliografica. (Littera antiqua, 7, Subsidia studiorum, 2.) Pp. 131. Vatican City: Scuola Vaticana di Paleografia, Diplomatica e Archivista, 1991. Paper.

The revelation of a series of child abuse incidents committed by Catholic priests and other members of religious orders has given rise to the question of establishing the responsibility of the Holy See for these acts under international human rights law. This article focuses on the report issued in 2014 by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the monitoring body of the Convention of the Rights of the Child (crc). It is argued that in order to fulfil this task we need to take three steps: first, to establish the relationship between the Vatican City state and the Hole See, a distinct and peculiar international legal subject. To do so, a historical account of the Holy See and its position within the fabric of international law is considered necessary. Secondly, this article argues that the crc was ratified by the Holy See both in its capacity as the government of the Vatican City and as a non-territorial legal subject. Hence, the application of the crc is not confined within the limited territory of the Vatican City, but ‘follows’ the authority of the Holy See irrespective of state borders. Thirdly, it is argued that the vertical, hierarchical structure of the Holy See is homologous to that of the modern state and, therefore, attribution rules can be applied by analogy in this case. The final conclusion is that it is possible to hold the Holy See responsible under the crc for acts of child abuse that occurred under its authority around the globe.

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S. Lilla: Codices Vaticani Graeci: Codices 2162–2254. (Codices Columnenses.) Pp. lxxx + 529. Vatican City: Bibliotheca Vaticana, 1985. Paper, L. 250,000.

The Classical Review ◽

10.1017/s0009840x00111321 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 37 (2) ◽

pp. 330-330

Author(s):

N. G. Wilson

Keyword(s):

Vatican City

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The “Missing” Leaf of the Skeireins under Ultraviolet Radiation

PMLA ◽

10.2307/460167 ◽

1957 ◽

Vol 72 (4-Part-1) ◽

pp. 555-562 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

William H. Bennett

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Ultraviolet Radiation ◽

World War ◽

Vatican City

Five leaves of the Skeireins (I, II, V, VI, VII) are in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, where they form Cod. E 147 parte superiore, 4° maj. Leaf VI, which bears the Arabic page numbers 309–310, disappeared from the codex at some time in the course of World War II, probably in 1943. In August of that year Milan underwent three successive nights of heavy bombing, in which thirteen halls of the Ambrosiana were destroyed, ten others damaged, and some 80,000 volumes burned beyond recognition. Fortunately, the Ambrosian Gothic palimpsests were rushed to safety and so escaped the fate of the Giessen document. In 1948 the Ambrosiana provided the writer with fluorescent type ultraviolet photographs of I, II, V, and VII but reported that VI was missing or misplaced. In 1950 a decipherment of I, II, V, and VII was published, followed in 1954 by a reading of the Vatican leaves (III, IV, VIII), but the absence of VI still precluded any attempt to complete the study of the manuscript. Finally, in 1955 it became possible to examine the Skeireins fragments in Vatican City and Milan, and, at the same time, to look for the missing leaf. Leaf VI proved to be misplaced in Cod. Ambros. A. How it came there is a matter for conjecture, but the haste and confusion produced by the 1943 bombing may well account for the misplacement.

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