📜 Public library in Leiden, Netherlands, established in 1655.
🔍 Houses around 2,500 books and thousands of scientific pamphlets amassed by Johannes Thysius.
🏛️ Only surviving 17th-century public library in the Netherlands
📚 Incredibly well-preserved collection of academic books and medieval manuscripts
🧐 Offers a window into intellectual thinking and everyday life from the late Humanism period
📖 Features one of the 14 still existing bookwheels in the world
🚶♀️ Guided tours available, check website for prices and times.
📍 Rapenburg 25, Leiden.
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