A Church's library that specializes in secular books...........it always seemed to me that the Roman Catholic church really only talked about the Bible or canon law........


it specialized in secular books from the beginning. Its collection of Greek and Latin classics was at the center of the revival of classical culture during the Renaissance age.^[7] The oldest documents in the library date back to the first century.^[13]

The library was founded primarily as a manuscript library, a fact reflected in the comparatively high ratio of manuscripts to printed works in its collection. Such printed books as have made their way into the collection are intended solely to facilitate the study of the much larger collection of manuscripts.^[21]