Valencian Library

The Valencian Library is in custody of almost a million documents and has an automatized and searchable catalogue for making queries on the Internet.

The large collection is made up of several materials and supports, from parchment and paper, to the new electronic supports, and includes documents since the XIII age until the XXI age, all Valencian authors’ works, Valencian themed and produced in Valencia.

Apart from the initial donation from Nicolau Primitiu Gómez Serrano, funding for the library includes: the ones which correspond to Pere Maria Orts i Bosch, Ignacio Soldevila, Jesús Martínez Guerricabeitia, Familia Ventura, Guillermina Medrano y Rafael Supervía, Pedro Nácher, and more.

Also, it is essential the entry of works from the legal deposit and has some temporal deposits, which highlight the Colección Cervantina de Francesc Martínez i Martínez, representing one of the principal recuperations of the Cervantes’s works worldwide.

The Biblioteca Valenciana has furthermore and important manuscript collections which include the most ancient document in this Library, the municipal charter of Sant Mateu from 1274, and a magnificent collection of ancient funds with 53 volumes of incunabula and works from the XVI age until the XVIII age.