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Free informative course about all the
libraries in the Renaissance Library Collection - delivered direct to
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Since the first Renaissance Library Calendar was published in 2001, we have featured
96 beautiful old libraries.
To obtain more information about them, in a format and at a pace, which is easy and pleasurable to absorb, we make these
details available to you by email, in the form of a fortnightly course.
This will give you a fascinating education about the way libraries developed around the World up to the early part of
the 20th century.
Just sign up for the course and you will receive, every two weeks, information about a different library featured in the
calendar, including:
A brief history
Information about the library's collection and other items of special interest
Address and Opening Hours
Link to the library's own website
Links to books about the library, where possible
To sign up for the course, just fill in the form below, press the
"Subscribe" button
and your course will be delivered direct to your email inbox, with
information about a different library, every two weeks.
or send a blank email to libraries@renaissancelibrary.com
Here is a list of the libraries:
Abbey Library, St Gallen, Switzerland, 1758, 2001
Abbey Library, Waldsassen, Germany, 1585, 2001
Altenburg Abbey Library, Altenburg, Austria, 1729-42, 2003
Angelica Library, Rome, Italy, 1765, 2003
Artis Library, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1838, 2006
Austrian National Library, Vienna, Austria, 1723-26, 2002
Bernadotte Library, Stockholm, Sweden, 1796, 2002
Boston Public Library, Boston, USA, 1895 , 2003
Canterbury Cathedral Library, Canterbury, UK, 597AD, 2006
Casanatense Library, Rome, Italy, 1701, 2006
Cathedral Library, Freising, Germany, 1734, 2002
Cathedral Library, Kalocsa, Hungary, 1784, 2004
Chetham's Library, Manchester, UK, 1653, 2003
City Library of Antwerp, Belgium, 1883, 2004
City and University Library of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 1794, 2005
Duke Humfrey's Library, Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK, 1598, 2001
Einsiedeln Abbey Library, Einsiedeln, Switzerland, 1738, 2005
Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, USA, 1932, 2004
Fransiscan Monastery of Friars Minor, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 1695, 2005
Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA, 1905, 2004
George Peabody Library, Baltimore, USA, 1878, 2002
Great Library, Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto, Canada, 1895, 2004
Helsinki University Library, Finland, 1840, 2001
Hereford Cathedral Chained Library, Hereford, UK 1611, 2005
Joanina Library, University of Coimbra, Portugal, 1725, 2001
John Rylands University Library of Manchester, UK, 1900, 2004
Klosterneuburg Abbey Library, Klosterneuburg, Austria, 1834-1842, 2005
Kremsmünster Abbey Library, Kremsmünster, Austria, 1680, 2003
Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA, 1731, 2006
Library of Castilla-La Mancha, Borbón-Lorenzana room, Toledo, Spain, 1771, 2006
Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA, 1897, 2002
Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Canada, 1876, 2002
Library of St. Walburga, Zutphen, Netherlands, 1564, 2002
Library of the Benedictine Monastery of Admont, Austria, 1776, 2004
Library of the Boston Athenćum, Boston, MA, USA, 1849, 2005
Library of the Francke Foundations, Halle, Germany, 1698, 2006
Library of the National Palace of Mafra, Mafra, Portugal, 1717, 2006
Library of the Palace of the Conde d’Obidos, Lisbon, Portugal, unknown, 2005
Library of the Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerpen, Belgium, 1563, 2006
Library of the Sorbonne, Paris, France, 1897, 2003
Library/Sacristy of St. Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt, 527AD, 2004
Lilienfeld Abbey Library, Lilienfeld, Austria, 1202, 2006
Mackintosh Library, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK, 1909, 2003
Malatesta Library, Cesena, Italy, 1447, 2006
Marciana National Library, Venice, Italy, 1560, 2001
Marsh's Library, Dublin, Ireland, 1701, 2001
Mazarine Library, Paris, France, 1689, 2002
Monastic Library at Yuso, San Millán de la Cogolla, Spain, 1665, 2005
National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK, 1882, 2002
National Library of Malta, Valletta, Malta, 1796, 2005
National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1795, 2001
National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, 1727, 2002
New York Academy of Medicine Library, New York City, USA, 1926. 2003
Palafoxiana Library, Puebla, Mexico, 1646, 2006
Parliamentary Library, Wellington, New Zealand, 1899, 2002
Queen's College Library, Oxford, UK, 1695, 2002
Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, Rhode Island, USA, 1747, 2003
Riggs Library, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA, 1891, 2004
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, New Library, UK, 1682, 2001
Royal Library of the Monastery of El Escorial, Madrid, Spain, 1575, 2004
St. Florian Monastery Library, St. Florian, Austria, 1745-1751, 2005
St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, MO, USA, 1912, 2005
Salamanca University General Library, Spain, 1749, 2001
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, 1913, 2003
Suzzallo Library, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, 1926, 2005
Swedish Parliament Library, Stockholm, Sweden, 1851, 2004
Trinity College Library, Dublin, Ireland, 1732, 2003
Trolleholm Castle Library, Svalöv, Sweden, late 18th century, 2006
Upper Lusatian Library of Sciences and Humanities, Görlitz, Germany, 1807, 2004
Vatican Library, Vatican State, 16th century, 2001
Vilnius University Library, Vilnius, Lithuania, 1570, 2003
Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge, UK, 1695, 2001
You can also see information about some of the individual libraries
by clicking on the links above.
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