Historical Library

Data

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Asset:

200,000 volumes and brochures; 11 incunabula ; 350 editions of the Sixteenth Century; 150 manuscripts; 254 musical scores; 1,200 dissertations; 2,273 periodicals, one hundred of which are current; 347 maps; 482 prints; 375 units of graphic design; 1,000 photographs; 50 archival collections; 11 special bibliographical collections.

Special sections:

Archival

Catalogues:

Topographical (volume); author; subject

Special catalogues:

Periodicals; incunabula and cinquecentine, manuscripts; Piedmontese publishing; thesis; maps; prints; graphic arts; musical scores; photographs; theatrical archive.

Bare of bibliographical material:

Significant periodicals for the history and culture of Piedmont.

Rules of cataloguing:

RICA, ISBD, SBN.

Indexing system for subjects:

Individual

Collective catalogues:

The library participates in the National Census of Italian editions of the sixteenth century; the National Collective Archives of periodicals; the Catalogue of periodicals of Piedmontese libraries; the Catalogue of Italian books of the nineteenth century (CLIO).