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The Monastery of El Escorial, where the library is located. The main reasons for Philip II's idea of establishing a grand library in Spain were the following: . the humanist character of the king himself, a person with a strong intellectual formation, as well as a great bibliophile, who saw the impulse to build a library as natural.
El Escorial, or the Royal Site of San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Spanish: Monasterio y Sitio de El Escorial en Madrid), or Monasterio de El Escorial (Spanish pronunciation: [el eskoˈɾjal]), is a historical residence of the king of Spain located in the town of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, 2.06 kilometres (1.28 mi) up the valley (4.1 km [2.5 mi] road distance) from the town of El Escorial and ...
San Lorenzo de El Escorial, also known as El Escorial de Arriba, is a town and municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain, located to the northwest of the region in the southeastern side of the Sierra de Guadarrama, at the foot of Mount Abantos and Las Machotas , 47 kilometres (29 mi) from Madrid. It is head of the eponymous judicial party.
Castile-La Mancha Library; ... Library of the Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial; See also ... "Spain". Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (4th ed ...
In the central nucleus of the Route (San Lorenzo de El Escorial-El Escorial), we find the Paraje Pintoresco del Pinar de Abantos y Zona de La Herrería. On the southwestern slope of Mount Abantos (1,753 m; 5,751 ft) stands the Royal Monastery and in its northern part is the Valley of the Fallen .
The Zaydani Library (Arabic: الخزانة الزيدانية, Al-Khizāna Az-Zaydāniyya) or the Zaydani Collection is a collection of manuscripts originally belonging to Sultan Zaydan Bin Ahmed that were taken by Spanish privateers in Atlantic waters off the coast of Morocco in 1612. The collection is held to this day in the library of El ...
Colombian migrants deported from the United States in the early days of President Donald Trump's administration say they experienced degrading treatment, but some said they still want to try and ...
The two codices were brought to Spain by Pompeo Leoni, a sculptor in the court of Philip II. After various changes of ownership, they were transferred to the monastic library of El Escorial and finally to the Biblioteca Real , where they remained unknown for 252 years.