Free visit of a library and discovery of the secrets of exceptional works

Name: Free visit of a library and discovery of the secrets of exceptional works
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Bibliothèque Humaniste

The library invites you to a journey between medieval and printed manuscripts from the 15th and 16th centuries, in a building designed by the architect Rudy Ricciotti.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free. Free entrance.

Ville de Sélestat

The library invites you to a journey between medieval and printed manuscripts from the 15th and 16th centuries, in a building designed by the architect Rudy Ricciotti.

Follow in the footsteps of the famous Beatus Rhenanus with the precious testimony left by his library inscribed in the UNESCO Memory of the World register.

Types d'événement

Visite libre

Thème 2022

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

About the location

Bibliothèque Humaniste

Place du Docteur Maurice Kubler, 67600 Sélestat

Bas-Rhin
Grand Est

Installed(Settled) since 1889 in the old(former) corn exchange of Sélestat, the Humanist Library(Bookcase) has its doors réouvert in June, 2018 after a closure(lock) of four years for restructuring, realised by the architect Rudy Ricciotti. This library(bookcase) possesses fund(collection) mattering from medieval manuscripts and from printed documents of XVTH - XVITH centuries. The main part of these works result(come) from the parish library(bookcase) and from the personal library(bookcase) of the Alsatian humanist Beatus Rhenanus (1485-1547), registered on the Register "Mémoire du Monde " of the UNESCO.