Citation needed for the vatican being a stupidly well off organisation. Preferably in terms of its annual budget (rather than capital assets, which would be a s

Citation needed for the vatican being a stupidly well off organisation. Preferably in terms of its annual budget (rather than capital assets, which would be a silly way to pay for this). And even well off institutions have priorities. I suspect "digitising historical manuscripts" is pretty low on the priority list of the Holy See. Given that the Holy See would prefer to fund other things, this is a pretty reasonable idea. If people fund it, then they'll do it. If people aren't interested enough to fund it, then they won't.