Guided tour of the exceptional old library collection

Name: Guided tour of the exceptional old library collection
Start: 2022-09-17T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:50:00+02:00
Location: Médiathèque protestante du Stift (Strasbourg)

Discover or rediscover the long history of the Collegium Wilhelmitanum heritage library.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free. Free entry. On-site registration. The old fund room can accommodate up to 15 people maximum.

Registration

accueil@mediathequeprotestante.fr 03 88 25 90 15

©Médiathèque protestante

Discover or rediscover the long history of the Collegium Wilhelmitanum heritage library.

This year again the Protestant Media Library opens the doors of its ancient collection.
After a detour in a place usually closed to the public, you can admire books of the fifteenth (the famous incunabula), sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Our new selection brings together works of theology but also of general culture (from geography to astronomy, from mathematics to ancient literature). Did you know that our library has near 5 centuries ? That it still contains the books given by the first Strasbourg reformers?
Are you familiar with the Chapter of Saint Thomas that manages this written heritage?
All these questions and much more will be answered during the visit.

About the location

Médiathèque protestante du Stift (Strasbourg)

1bis quai Saint-Thomas, 67000 Strasbourg

Bas-Rhin
Grand Est

The library(bookcase) of Collegium Wilhelmitanum grew organically with the institution the name of which it bears and of that it became a jewel(flagship). Further to the passage of the city of Strasbourg in Reform, a boarding school(internship) for students was installed(settled) in 1544 in the disused convent of the monks of Saint Guillaume. From the beginnings and across centuries, the directors for this home(foyer) were eager to make available of the students, works necessary for their training(formation). A library(bookcase) of theology and of general knowledge so developed by purchases, but especially thanks to gifts(donations) and legacies. From now on, the library(bookcase) keeps(preserves) several thousand volumes of the XVIth and XVIIth century s. Fortunately, the old(former) collections did not undergo major damages: they were saved in 1860 during the fire of the middle school Saint Guillaume which was then installed(settled) in the old(former) convent of the Dominicans, they survived the war of 1870, which was fatal in the library(bookcase) of city of Strasbourg and in that of Protestant seminary(seminar) and the Second World War saved(spared) them. These books(pounds) are currently grouped(included) in a particular(special) room of the Protestant media library: the room Peter. We invite you to come discover these old(former) books!