Connected Sites
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Biblioteca Palafoxana
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"In 1475, Sixtus IV founded the Vatican Library, which is the first open to the public in Europe; the collections of manuscripts and books, prints, drawings, coins and decorative arts, constantly increased through the centuries, making it an invaluable repository of human culture." (OUV)
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Biblioteca Marciana; San Lazzaro degli Armeni with its 150000 vol library
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Royal Library
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Stift Melk's Monastic Library & Göttweig Abbey: The abbey has a library of 130,000 books and manuscripts, and a particularly important collection of religious engravings, besides valuable collections of coins, antiquities, musical manuscripts and natural history, all of which survived the dangers of World War II and its immediate aftermath almost without loss.
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Sir Robert Ho Tung Library (1894)
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Girolamini Convent Library
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"The books of the library originated from practically all European printing houses of the period from the 15th to the first half of the 20th centuries. A map of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the so-called Radziwill map, was of particular significance to Central European cartography. It was the first map in the history of cartography to give a true picture of the entire territory of Belarus and Lithuania" (AB evaluation)
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Scientific library
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Yuso
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Certosa di Padula
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Long Library: its original books were sold, now the magnificent Willis organ is the centre piece
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The collections of Novodevichy contain a large number of precious objects and paintings, as well as an important library, related to the life of the tsarist dynasties and the history of the country (AB ev)
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City Library
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At Turn und Taxis Palace
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Krayova Library
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Monastery: containing some two thousand printed books and over a thousand manuscripts, many of them of great antiquity and beauty (AB ev)
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Joanine Library
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"Sheikh Safi al-din ensemble consists of a range of buildings including the tomb, Khānegāh, the library, the mosque, the school...This huge building ..was called Jannat Sara, and served as the library. In the Islamic [Islamia] encyclopedia, there is an account of the greatness of the library of Sheikh Safi al-din. Today, nothing of the library is left though it has once been the largest library in Iran.....At the time of occupation of Ardabil by the Russians (1827), the religious and cultural texture of the city suffered grave losses. The library was sent to Saint Petersburg by General Peskevich, and was attached to the library of that city". Nom File - this describes how Russian troops "diverted" to Ardabil "It was only the library of Sheikh Safi al-din Ardabili's shrine which held numerous books and precious manuscripts ..... (so) though Ardabil was not on their route, and its occupation would cost expenses and efforts to them ... a group of soldiers were dispatched to Ardabil to besiege the library and take control of it". This Russian article of 1996 claims that the library was actually "purchased" and selected "with the assistance of the mosque's mufti" (see link)
See www.islamicmanuscripts.info
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Jafaryya Library, Kalkatachi Library (nom file)
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in the 17th century it held 4,000 books
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Baroque library at St. John monastery
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Hafiz Ahmed Agha Library: "Among the most valuables there is a Koran from 1540, the history of the Turkish siege of the city in 1522, and manuscripts with Persian miniatures." (wiki)
See en.wikipedia.org
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The Archive-Library of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, "comprising books and documents from the Middle Ages until today; one of the main centers of the world for research on St. James."
See en.wikipedia.org
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Anna Amalia Library
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Burg Library
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St. Gall Library
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House of Common's Library in Westminster palace
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Archivo de Indias
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Bibliothéque de la Ville de la Chaux-de-Fonds (with murals)
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The Qing Palace in Shenyang
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At the Seminario
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Central Library
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National Library of Aleppo
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Greek Library
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Hofburg Library
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David Sassoon Mechanics Institute and Library; University Library and Convocation Hall (1874-78), designed by England’s famous architect Sir George Gilbert Scott (nom file)
See gilbertscott.org
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National Library of Malta (originated in 1555)
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Municipal Library of Archiginnasio
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National Library, holding documents since the 15th century
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"Library functions are an essential aspect for supporting study functions. As a space for the study of Neo-Confucian classics and other academic writing by Neo-Confucian scholars, seowon required libraries. The significant volume of old documents, literary works, and woodblocks stored in the nominated property prove its authenticity." - Nomination File
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Within the mosque
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scriptorum
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Zellenbibliothek at Stift Sankt Peter
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Old library of the University of Salamanca
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"The monastery library preserves the second largest collection of early codices and manuscripts in the world, outnumbered only by the Vatican Library. Its strength lies in Greek, Coptic, Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Georgian, and Syriac texts. The Codex Sinaiticus, now in the British Library, left the monastery in the 19th century for Russia, in circumstances that are now disputed."
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Housing 250 manuscripts and 9,000 old printed matters
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Strahov Monastery Library
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Gothic Library at Babelsberg Castle
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The Herculaneum papyri are more than 1,800 papyri found in the Herculaneum Villa of the Papyri, in the 18th century, carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The papyri, ..., come from the only surviving library from antiquity that exists in its entirety. (wiki)
See en.wikipedia.org
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"Pergamum was home to a library said to house approximately 200,000 volumes, according to the writings of Plutarch.[3] Built by Eumenes II between 220 and 159 BCE and situated at the northern end of the Acropolis, it became one of the most important libraries in the ancient world." (wiki)
See en.wikipedia.org
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Khaldiyya, Gulbenkian Library
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A number of the Monasteries on Mt Athos contain significant libraries eg Pantelemion Hilandar
See en.wikipedia.org
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a Library, still preserving 36,000 volumes from the Portuguese Kings’ collection (AB ev)
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Created 1852 - one of the world's major botanical libraries
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Qolsarif Mosque Library
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Great Library of the Society of Jesus, in Cordoba's University
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(Topkapi) Enderun Library
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Included in the nominated property are three Confucian academies Byeongsanseowon, Oksanseowon, and Donggangseowon. "Seowon, or a Confucian academy was a private educational institution set up exclusively for a man who had achieved outstanding learning and virtue. Its twin roles of enshrining a specific sage and educating students were reflected in its components: shrine, jeonsacheong, a building for the preparation of memorial rites, lecture hall, students' quarters (jaesa), library (jangpangak), and an elevated pavilion (nugak) where Confucian scholars held gatherings or took rests." - Advisory Body Evaluation
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Tripitaka Koreana Woodblocks
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Eggenberg Library
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National Central Library, Laurentian Library, Biblioteca Riccardiana, Gabinetto Vieusseux
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The campus includes a series of large buildings, in particular ... the Library (AB ev)
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Changdeokgung Palace's Court Library in the secret garden
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The library of the Sacro Convento, opened to the public in 1979, not only holds documents from the convent, but also the old collection of the municipal library, with the manuscripts dating from before the 19th century. It has 709 handwritten codes (12th-16th centuries), many of which present splendid illuminations, 356 incunabula, 3,256 "cinquecentine" and more than 92,000 volumes. Particularly interesting is the musical collection, which includes around 2,500 manuscripts. (Nomination file, p. 37)
See it.wikipedia.org
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Library Ets Haim
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Abbey of Lorsch is considered as the most significant library of the Carolingian period. Today, the inventory of the library is spread over more than 70 libraries worldwide
See www.bibliotheca-laureshamensis-digital.de
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Bahla Fort's empty library
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Chinguetti - a historically significant Koran library
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a library (Kitab khana) (AB ev)
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"The heliometer and telescope pavilions, the Meteor Department pavilion, the library and administrative buildings are also part of the nominated property" - nom file
