The Escorial Library, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain. The library’s collection consists of more than 40,000 volumes and many important illuminated manuscripts.
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Admont Abbey Library, Austria. It is the largest monastery library in the world. It contains c. 70,000 volumes of the monastery's entire holdings of c. 200,000 volumes.
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Biblioteca Joanina, Coimbra, Portugal. It is the Baroque library of the University of Coimbra, built in the 18th century, and it contains about 250 thousand volumes, namely works of medicine, geography, history, humanistic studies, science, civil and canon law, philosophy and theology.
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(written by FK for Walkley Library)
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