Oldest Library Intact

Oldest Library Intact. The St. Gallen Abbey Library is one of the oldest and most important libraries in the world, with a collection of over 2100 handwritten…

Location: St. Gallen Abbey Library, Switzerland, Switzerland

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Category: legendary

The St. Gallen Abbey Library is one of the oldest and most important libraries in the world, with a collection of over 2100 handwritten manuscripts and 1650 incunabula, and is the only one of the great medieval monastery libraries to have survived intact to the present day.

Source: Stiftsbezirk, Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen (746203/ 254241)

Oldest Library Intact — Switzerland, Canton of Zurich

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