13/12/23

Extraordinary and 24-hour opening

The Humanities Library is open on weekends 16-17, and 23 from 9:00 am to 2:00 am.
It will be open 24 hours from 27 December to 26 January at 21.00.

17/10/23

Closing room 0.2 and 1.0. Loan in room 0.1

Room 0.2, where the lending desk is located, and room 1.0, where the reference material is located, will be closed from Monday, October 20 until the end of the work due to the renovation of the lending desk. During this time, the lending service will be provided in room 0.1, which has been set up for this purpose only. We apologize for the inconvenience.

13/10/23

Presentation of book in the Humanities Libraryl

11/10/23

"Desaparecido: el azaroso viaje del Liber Augustalis"

We present  “Desaparecido: el azaroso viaje del Liber Augustalis”, primer llibre de la sèrie Inutilitas Librorum.

The Historical Library of the University of Valencia and the publishing house Publicaciones de la Universitat (PUV), and the collaboration of the Humanities Library, have started Inutilitas Librorum, a new series of monographs on ancient books, the management of bibliographic heritage, the collections of heritage libraries and the tools for their study. The objective is to disseminate studies on these topics and encourage research on the heritage collections that the Historical Library of the University of Valencia preserves.

The series is included in the Cinc Segles institutional collection and has an advisory board made up of professionals and researchers of recognized national and international prestige.

Desaparecido, number 1 of this series, tells an interesting and unknown story. On November 26, 1940, the Historical Library of the University of Valencia reported the disappearance of the manuscript of the Liber Augustalis, which had been part of the library of the kings of Aragon in Naples (15th century). A century later, the dukes of Calabria would give it to the monastery of San Miguel de los Reyes de València. In 1837, on the occasion of the confiscation of Mendizábal, this valuable manuscript would be kept by the University Library. Now, eighty-three years later, his whereabouts have been located. An exhaustive study of the existing documentation has allowed us to conclude that the manuscript currently kept in the Peralada Palace Library is none other than the one that disappeared from our library in 1940.

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20/09/23

Exhibition on Fernando Reati's book, Filosofia de la incomunicación

In collaboration with the author Fernando Reati, who presents his book, Filosofía de la incomunicación, in the cycle of meetings "Palabras y papeles sobre la memoria", the Humanitats library has elaborated this virtual exhibition about the letters and crafts that the political prisoners carried out between 1976 and 1979 in the prison of Cordoba when they were subjected to a regime of complete isolation and inactivity, but managed with ingenuity to keep the communication alive beyond the walls.   Access to the exhibition