16/04/24

Opening of the exhibition: Trobes, 550 years of printing in Valencia

We invite you to the opening of this exhibition, on April 25, at 6:00 p.m., in the Duc de Calàbria rooms and the Bigues room.

As a complementary activity, from April 28 to May 26, the replica of Gutenberg's printing press (property of the Asociación de Amigos del Museo de la Imprenta. Senado del Museo) will remain installed at the entrance to the Duc de Calàbria room and will be will show its operation by printing the first page of the Trobes incunabulum,

Hours: Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and Wednesday, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

04/03/24

Consultation Pérez Bayer Room

The PÉREZ BAYER room will NOT be available for consultations on:

17/04/2024 from 9:00  to 12:30 h 

25/04/2024 from 15:30 to 17:00 h  

Users may consult the collections in another room indicated by the Library staff.

Sorry for the inconvenience

28/02/24

Horari Biblioteca Falles i Pasqua

Falles
Del 15 al 20 de març
Sala Pérez Bayer (investigadors) tancada:
Sala Duc de Calàbria (exposicions) oberta en horari habitual, diumenges de 10 a 14h.

Pasqua
Del 28 de març al 8 d'abril:
Sala Pérez Bayer (investigadors) tancada
Sala Duc de Calàbria (exposicions) oberta en horari habitual, diumenges de 10 a 14h.

31/01/24

Exhibition in preparation: TROBES, 550 years of printing in Valencia

In 1474, following the call for a poetry contest, Obres o trobes en lahors de la Verge Maria were published in Valencia. It was the first book printed by the Crown of Aragon and the first of a literary nature in the Iberian Peninsula. 

The only preserved copy of Les Trobes is kept in the Historical Library of the University of Valencia. To commemorate this anniversary, the Library presents the exhibition Trobes: 550 years of printing in Valencia. The exhibition can be visited in Room Duc de Calàbria and Room Bigues of the La Nau Cultural Centre. The original copy of  Trobes and a selection of incunabula from the University collection will be on display.

Opening: April 25, 2024

Organized by: the Historical Library of the University of Valencia, with the Vice-Chancellor of Research and the Cultural Center la Nau

Commissioners: Antoni Furió, Rosa Mª Gregori Roig, Pau Viciano Navarro

More information

17/01/24

Presentation of the book "Desaparecido" by Francisco Gimeno Blay

Day: January 23, 2024, Tuesday
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Duc de Calàbria Room of the Historical Library

The book "Desaparecido: el azaroso viaje del Liber Augustalis" will be presented at the Historical Library, the interesting and unknown story of the disappearance of the manuscript of the Liber Augustalis, when on November 26, 1940 the Historical Library of the University of Valencia denounced its disappearance, manuscript that had been part of the library of the kings of Aragon (15th century). Now, eighty-three years later, his whereabouts have been located.

The book is the first issue of the Inutilitas librorum series, within the Cinc Segles collection, the result of collaboration between the Historical Library of the University of Valencia and the publishing house Publicacions de la Universitat (PUV).

They will intervene:

• Cristina Tomás Martínez, Director of the Library and Documentation Service
• Teresa Ferrer Valls, Director of PUV
• Francisco Gimeno Blay, Author of the book