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The collections:the wealth and amplitude of the bibliographic resourceThe collection of the Biblioteca de Catalunya is rich and has a great bibliographicand documentary value. It is made up of nearly three milliondocuments in various formats: books, magazines, newspapers, manuscripts,etchings, maps, scores, sound and audiovisual recordings, CD-rom, etc.Since 1981 it has brought together the printed and recorded material comingfrom the legal deposit of Catalonia. Since its foundation, documents, collectionsand libraries have been acquired from diverse sources and origins.The donations made by many private citizens and many institutions havecontributed, over many years, to strengthening the historical and bibliographicalvalue of the centre.
The collections of historical patrimonyManuscripts and archiveThe Manuscripts collection of the Biblioteca de Catalunyabrings together an important collection of documents,which includes everything from medieval manuscriptsto letters and writings by figures from the XX th century.Special mention must be made of the most emblematictexts: the Homilíes d’Organyà (XIII th century); the Llibrede l’Ordre de Cavalleria by Ramon Llull; Provençal andCatalan songbooks (XIV-XV th centuries); the Crònica ofDesclot; the Viatges of the Baron of Maldà (XVIII th century);the ’Oda a la pàtria de Bonaventura Carles Aribau (1833);L’Atlàntida and other original works by Jacint Verdaguer,and several manuscripts by the principal Catlan authorsof the XX th century, such as Eugeni d’Ors, Carles Riba,Josep Carner, Josep Maria de Sagarra, Josep Pla, or morerecently, Néstor Luján, Maria Mercè Marçal and JaumeFuster. The Biblioteca de Catalunya also has an interestingcollection of parchments, collections of autographs, noble,commercial and institutional collections. Of particularinterest are the collection of the Junta de Comerç, that ofErasme de Gònima, that of the Marquis of Saudín, etc. Thisentire documentary collection is of great use to scholars.Cançoner Gil, XIV th centuryEls Greuges de Guitart Isarn, senyor de Caboet. Parchment, XIth century
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