The library is also open to researchers and readers interested in History, Human Sciences and Theology. The library’s mission is to support reading and research for the Benedictine Monastery as well as support its study centres and Montserrat’s cultural activities. The library specialises in Human Sciences and Theology.
The collection was saved during the Spanish Civil War and, after the latter’s end, doubling the number of items until reaching today’s figure of 350,000 books, with 6,800 periodicals, 1,400 manuscripts, 400 incunabula, 18,000 engravings and 500 ancient maps. At the end of the 19th century and the start of the 20th, it would once more begin to grow tremendously. Its collection suffered some losses, however, during the Napoleonic Wars when, in 1811, the monastery was destroyed. This library began to take shape based on the manuscripts prepared by the monastery’s own scriptorium from its very foundation in the 11th century and, as well, thanks to orders, donations and acquisitions. Landerer, and the donation of Narcís Monturiol Library’s technical books. Its documentary collection is dedicated fundamentally to the History of Science, including an incunabulum on Astronomy, approximately 50 texts from the 16th to 18th centuries, the historical collection of the magazine, Ibérica, as well as the following special collections: the legacy of the Naturalist, J. The library currently has approximately 11,000 volumes of which 1,400 date from before the 20th century. It also began establishing links with other scientific institutions around the world. From the outset, its library was conceived as a fundamental resource to be able to carry out research at the Observatory dedicated to promoting science. This is how the Ebro Observatory was inaugurated in 1904 next to the Faculty of Philosophy, specialising in “Earth and Space Sciences”. The Ebro Observatory University Institute’s library dates back to a change within the Society of Jesus at the end of the 19th century when it decided to incorporate Natural Sciences into the curriculum at its Col The collection includes parchments, 42 rolls, 41 incunabula, 1,127 rare and valuable books, and approximately 21,000 volumes of documents dating from the 16th to 18th centuries as well as other unique items of great historical value. There are other texts in other languages such as Catalan, Latin, Malaysian, Tamil, Coptic and Ge’ez (the ancient Ethiopian language). Today, the library’s collection includes 270,000 texts including 600 manuscripts including those in Hebrew from a synagogue once found in Tortosa.
At the end of the 19th century, the Borja Library received several more important collections through donations, exchanges and the return of the books the Jesuits had lost with their expulsion from Spain in 1767. It was also where the Jesuits opened a Centre for Superior Studies which would serve as the seed for the Faculty of Philosophy and Theology.
At that time, the Bishop of Tortosa ceded this space to the Jesuits and donated approximately 4,000 books.
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In October 1864, the Society of Jesus was able to install itself within an old Franciscan monastery located in Jesús (Tortosa-Roquetes). The origins of today’s library can be found in Tortosa.
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