Biblioteca Liciniana
| Biblioteca comunale Liciniana di Termini Imerese | |
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 Entrance to the monastery and library
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| founding | 1800 |
| Duration | 102,000 volumes, 150 manuscripts, 13 incunabula, documents |
| Library type | library |
| place | Termini Imerese |
| ISIL | IT-PA0188 |
| Website | Biblioteca Liciniana |
The Biblioteca Liciniana is a public library, now the Termini Imerese City Library .
Founded in 1800, it is the second oldest municipal library in the metropolitan city of Palermo . The Biblioteca comunale by Carini (1775) and the Biblioteca Comunale di Palermo (1760) are older . The foundation goes back to the initiative of the priest Giuseppe Cipri, who made his own collection of books available to the public in order to promote general education. The name Liciniana is derived from the pseudonym Mopso Licinio, which Cipri had adopted when he was admitted to the Accademia Euracea. Originally managed as a foundation by a deputazione , to which the respective archpriest and the mayor belonged, the lack of financial resources led to the takeover as the city library in 1968. Originally, in the College of Jesuits housed, the Liciniana was transferred to the Klarissenkloster (Monastero di Santa Chiara) 1952nd
The historical holdings include other libraries of scholars from Termini as well as manuscript bequests, including those of Niccolò Palmeri and Gregorio Ugdulena . 4500 volumes come from the closed library of the monastery of San Martino delle Scale above Monreale . The files of the Accademia Euracea also belong to the holdings of the Liciniana. The parchments form a separate fund , primarily privileges for the city of Termini from 1313 to 1645. In addition to 13 incunabula, there are 700 cinquecentines , prints from the 16th century.
The library keeps the historical archives of the municipality as well as the archives of the abolished monasteries and spiritual communities of Caccamo , Caltavuturo , Montemaggiore Belsito , Sclafani and Termini Imerese. In February 2010 it became known that more than 50 original documents were found during order work, the provenance of which is the archive of the Greek monastery of Santa Maria della Grotta in Palermo. The oldest, an Arabic document, dates from the beginning of the 12th century, plus eight Greek-language documents from the period between 1160 and 1261. The oldest documents in Latin from this collection were issued in 1197.
Web links
- Biblioteca Comunale on the Termini Imerese website (archive link)
- Publications about the Biblioteca Liciniana in the Opac des Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale
- Entry in SIUSA on the archives of the Biblioteca Liciniana
Remarks
- ↑ Short inventory overview ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Report by Rosella Leonforte in La Repubblica of February 23, 2010 as well as in the online magazine Il Mondo degli Archivi, published jointly by the General Directorate of the Italian Archives and the Italian Association of Archivists, penned by Elena Montagno Cappuccinello ( Memento of August 2, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ).
- ↑ Horst Enzensberger : Some unknown documents from the Norman and Staufer times. In: Nea Rhome. Rivista di ricerche bizantinistiche 9, 2012, 153–181 (Chronos synegoros. Mélanges André Guillou II): Santa Maria della Grotta pp. 155–168 and pp. 172–176 Appendix No. 1 to 3.
