In the afternoon we visited the palace library, which is one of the largest historical libraries in the Czech Republic and contains the second largest historical coin collection in the world.
The library was formed in 1694 for bishops and noblemen, and it was open to the public. The majority of the collection is theological; it contains about 90,000 items, of which 435 are manuscripts and 172 are incunables (books printed before the 1500s, so before the printing press).
There are four globes which were part of the original collection: the two large globes are from 1688 and come from Italy and the small globes were made by a cartographer from the Netherlands around the same time.
An original Czech bible, from 1488. The cover is carved wood.
A Luther bible.
This book has had some repairs; here we see a page from the 20th century on the left and on the right, a page from the 15th century.
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