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The Largest Library in Europe (1328)


A reading room at the Library of the Sorbonne. (View Larger)

The Library of the Sorbonne, the largest in Europe, contained 1722 volumes of manuscripts in 1328.

Bischoff, Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and Middle Ages (1990) 226.

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