The Biblioteca Vallicelliana is a library in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

, Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

. The library is located in the Oratorio dei Filippini

Oratorio dei Filippini

The Oratorio dei Filippini is a building located in Rome and erected between 1637 and 1650 by Francesco Borromini. He belonged to the Congregation of the Oratory, founded by Philip Neri in 1561...

 complex built by Francesco Borromini

Francesco Borromini

Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli was an architect from Ticino who, with his contemporaries, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture.A keen student of the architecture of Michelangelo and the ruins of...

 in Piazza della Chiesa Nuova.

The library holds about 130 000 volumes of manuscripts, incunabula

Incunabulum

Incunable, or sometimes incunabulum is a book, pamphlet, or broadside, that was printed — not handwritten — before the year 1501 in Europe...

, and books. In this number about 3 000 manuscripts written in Latin, Greek, among them Bible of Alcuin

Alcuin

Alcuin of York or Ealhwine, nicknamed Albinus or Flaccus was an English scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria. He was born around 735 and became the student of Archbishop Ecgbert at York...

 from the 9th century, lectionary from the 12th century etc. The library holds documents from the time of the Reformation

Protestant Reformation

The Protestant Reformation was a 16th-century split within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin and other early Protestants. The efforts of the self-described "reformers", who objected to the doctrines, rituals and ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Catholic Church, led...

 and Counter-Reformation

Counter-Reformation

The Counter-Reformation was the period of Catholic revival beginning with the Council of Trent and ending at the close of the Thirty Years' War, 1648 as a response to the Protestant Reformation.The Counter-Reformation was a comprehensive effort, composed of four major elements:#Ecclesiastical or...

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History

The library was established in 1565 by Filippo Neri

Philip Neri

Saint Philip Romolo Neri , also known as Apostle of Rome, was an Italian priest, noted for founding a society of secular priests called the "Congregation of the Oratory".-Early life:...

. In 1699 Leone Allacci presented to the library 243 volumes, 137 Latin and 106 Greek (Fondo Allacci), in 1764 Giuseppe Bianchini

Giuseppe Bianchini

Giuseppe Bianchini was an Italian Oratorian, biblical, historical, and liturgical scholar. Clement XII and Benedict XIV, who highly appreciated his learning, entrusted him with several scientific labors...

 presented 293 volumes (Fondo Bianchini), in 1843 Ruggero Falzacappa presented 79 volumes of documents from 17-19th centuries (Fondo Falzacappa).

Manuscripts

In the library are housed the biblical manuscripts: Minuscule 169

Minuscule 169

Minuscule 169 , ε 305 , is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. It has marginalia.- Description :...

, 170

Minuscule 170

Minuscule 170 , ε 307 , is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. It has marginalia.- Description :...

, 171

Minuscule 171

Minuscule 171 , ε 407 , is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century. It has complex contents and full marginalia.- Description :...

, 393

Minuscule 393

Minuscule 393 , δ 452 , is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century. It has marginalia.- Description :...

, 394

Minuscule 394

Minuscule 394 , δ 460 , is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Dated by a colophon to the year 1330.It was adapted for liturgical use.- Description :...

, 397

Minuscule 397

Minuscule 397 , Cι10 , is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 10th or 11th century.- Description :...

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External links

• Biblioteca Vallicelliana at the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
• The Biblioteca Vallicelliana - Regole Per La Lingua Maltese
• De Leonis Allati Codicibus qui Romae in Biblioteca Vallicelliana asservantur
• List of press marks, Roma, Biblioteca Vallicelliana