Biblioteca Pública Episcopal del Seminari de Barcelona

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The Episcopal Public Library of Barcelona (in Catalan and Spanish: Biblioteca Pública Episcopal de Barcelona, BPEB), is a library located in the building of the Conciliar Seminary of Barcelona. Founded in 1772, it is the oldest preserved public access library in the city of Barcelona, Spain. It houses a large collection of old and modern books, with 229,005 volumes . The BPEB belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Barcelona and is its central library. It collaborates with the Collective Catalogue of the Catalan Bibliographic Heritage. The library houses a large collection of old and modern books, with a total of 229,005 volumes as of December 2024. The collection primarily concerns theology, ecclesiastical sciences, the Bible, philosophy, arts and humanities. Of the library's collection, 95 of the books are incunabula (printings from before the 16th century) and 625 are manuscripts. The oldest of these is dated to the 14th century.