הספרייה העירונית של טריר

The Collection: The collection holds some 3.000 manuscripts from middle ages and some 3.000 prints from the times of Gutenberg (Incunabula). The moust famous manuscripts are the ״Codex Egbert¡״ (UNESCO Memory of the World), the ״Ada-Evangeliar״ (main work of the court school of emperor Charlemagne), the ״Trierer Apokalypse" (oldest cycle of images of the Apocalypse in a book) and at least the ״Gutenberg-Bible״. About the library (history, description of collections etc. up to 250 words): The city library of Trier was founded in 1798 by the French, who had occupied the city of Trier after the French Revolution. Many former libraries of dissolved cloisters and abbeys (secularisation) came into the city library of Trier. First working as a library of the „Departement de la Sarre״, the library was given into the organisation of the city of Trier in 1804. Today one can find some 450.000 titles from all areas of knowledge in the city library of Trier.