Latin Libraries: Yes, it is true. The Vatican Library, developed by Pope Nicholas V in 1451, does have an enormous collection of incunabula. We refer, of course, to documents produced before 1501. You may have thought we meant dirty books. The Vatican has those, too, but it doesn't have the world's largest such collection. That appears to belong to the Kinsey Institute in Bloomington, Ind.

Egyptian Libraries: Alexandria's fabled library is mostly fabled for being burned to the ...

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