Capitular Library

The Capitular Library is the oldest library in the world of the Latin cultural area to be still in business today.
It was born as an emanation of the "Scriptorium", a sort of bookshop where books on parchment were produced for the disciplinary and religious education and training of future priests.

The scribes, in charge of copying the texts, were priests of the Schola majoris Ecclesiae, that is, the Canons of the Chapter (hence the adjective "capitolare") of the Cathedral.

During the centuries of transition between Late Antiquity and the High Middle Ages, characterized by deep crises, it was in fact mainly the men of the Church who received an education, as well as who had the opportunity to acquire and pass on the ancient classical culture despite the political and social decadence, demographic and economic.

One of them, Ursicino, leaves us the first evidence of the existence of the Scriptorium. After having finished writing the life of St. Martin, composed by Sulpicius Severus, and the life of the Theban hermit St. Paul, compiled by St. Jerome, at the conclusion of codex XXXVIII he adds some data decidedly unusual for the time: his name, the place ("Verona") and the date: the calends of August in the year of Agapito's consulate.

The dating is therefore easily identifiable as August 1, 517, when Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, ruled in Verona.

Map: Capitular Library

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Address: Piazza Duomo, 19, 37121
Verona (VR) Veneto
Latitude: 45.447053976237314
Longitude: 10.995967984199524
Site: http://bibliotecacapitolare.or...

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Type: Building
Function: Library
Creation date: 12-10-2020 08:59
Last update: 02/08/2022