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The Calvet Library Calvet wished to preserve the originality of his library and it was the municipality which, by recognition, made the Calvet Library the only Avignon Library : it donated its religious collections, confiscated during the Revolution and, as a result, returned a collection of incomparable riches to the town. At present, the Library is established in the heart of the town, in the former Palace of Cardinal Annibal Ceccano, built in the 14th century and called "Livrée Ceccano". By 1930, Joseph Girard, an efficient and methodical curator, had counted "85,401 ancient printed works [...], 703 incunabulum, 5,367 manuscripts, and 371 collections of engravings". C.f. full text. The library has been completed over the years with many works: today, it contains more than 250,000 printed volumes, almost 7,000 manuscripts, a drawing and engravings collection containing approximately 60,000 items... Open to the publicFree entry
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