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Incunabula and Early Manuscripts

Illuminated initial from Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda sanctorum (1353)

Amongst the Library´s holdings are a number of medieval manuscripts and incunabula (books printed up to the year 1500). The manuscripts include a twelfth-century Psalterium and a thirteenth-century charter. Among the incunabula is a French book of hours from 1494 and Hartmann Schedel´s "Nuremberg Chronicle" from 1493.