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Vallicelliana Library | |
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Biblioteca Vallicelliana | |
41°53′54″N 12°28′11″E / 41.89829219483768°N 12.469766463470876°E | |
Location | Rome, Italy |
Established | 1569 |
Collection | |
Size | 289,859 item (2019), 3,191 item (2019), 159,139 item (2020), 159,490 item (2021), 273,673 volume, 435 item |
The Biblioteca Vallicelliana is a library in Rome, Italy. The library is located in the Oratorio dei Filippini complex[1] built by Francesco Borromini in Piazza della Chiesa Nuova.[2][3][4]
The library holds about 130,000 volumes of manuscripts, incunabula, and books.[4][5] Among these, there are about 3,000 manuscripts written in Latin and Greek,[4] including a Bible which belonged to Alcuin dating to the 9th century[2] and a lectionary from the 12th century.[6] The library holds documents from the time of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.
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