Ecclesiastical Libraries

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Vatican Apostolic Library

EcclesiasticalVatican City

Formally established by Sixtus IV in 1475 on collections assembled by the popes since the 1440s, the Vatican Library safeguards 75...

Biblioteca Ambrosiana

EcclesiasticalItaly

Cardinal Federico Borromeo endowed the Ambrosiana and opened it to all readers in 1609, one of the earliest libraries founded as p...

Lambeth Palace Library

EcclesiasticalUnited Kingdom

Founded in 1610 by the will of Archbishop Richard Bancroft, this is the historic library of the Archbishops of Canterbury and the ...