Royal Library of Turin

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Royal Library
Biblioteca Reale
Interior of the Royal Library of Turin
Location	Turin, Italy
Established	1842
Collection
Size	250,000 item (2019), 4,500 item (2019), 300,000 item (2020, 2021), 342,000 item (2022), 5,500 item (2022)
Other information
Website	Official website

The Royal Library of Turin (Italian: Biblioteca Reale di Torino) is a library located within the ground floor of the Royal Palace of Turin, itself a World Heritage Site in Turin, Italy.

The library contains approximately 200,000 print volumes, 4,500 manuscripts, 3,055 drawings, 187 incunabula predating 1501, 5,019 sixteenth century books, 20,987 pamphlets, 1,500 works on parchment, 1,112 periodicals, and 400 photo albums, maps, engravings, and prints.^[1]

History

Since his ascent to the throne of the

In 1998, an underground exhibition room was crafted to safely display the collection to the public with the most up-to-date museum technologies.^[5]

• 
  The Geocarta Nautica Universale (1523), the first known map to show the discoveries of the

  Magellan Expedition
• 
  The presumed

  self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci

  held by the Royal Library

See also

• Head of a Woman (Leonardo, Turin)

References

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