Abstract
Old documents, mostly from the end of 16th to the 18th centuries, from China, Japan, the Indian subcontinent, Indochinese peninsula, Indonesian archipelago and Northeast Asia are preserved in different collections in the Vatican Library according to their different origins. These documents, relating to the history of the Church, aboriginal religious writings, literature, dictionaries, etc., are in various Asian languages and scripts, mainly written on paper, but also on palm leaves or engraved on metal plates. Currently, the Vatican Library is starting a project of organising, digitising and cataloguing its unedited Marega collection, containing over 10,000 items of Japanese 17th-century documents. Work of digitisation of Chinese old materials has already been accomplished; a small number of the previously mentioned documents are included in ongoing projects; projects of digitising other materials are in discussion.
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