The Fardelliana Library

The Fardelliana Library

Historical and conservation library, it holds fragments of local history, including busts of illustrious Trapani and noble coats of arms, a library heritage from very heterogeneous areas of about 170 thousand volumes. 

Exceptional elements of this heritage – whose most valuable volumes come from the dissolved religious guilds – are certainly Chorali and manuscripts, such as ‘Light of the intellect’ written by the Spanish mystic Abulafia, a very rare sixteenth-century manuscript of Hebrew origin. The incunabula are also important, including the one from Saint Augustine printed in Cologne in 1467, the oldest in the library, or the one dating back to 1486 with the works of the Roman poet Virgil. There are also parchments from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century, sixteenth-century books and works from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as well as a precious nucleus of engravings by Piranesi.