Nearly one half of these are preserved in the imperial library at Vienna. The Urbino library is partly in the Vatican and partly in other collections. The invention of printing, by increasing the num- ber and reducing the cost of books, made pos- sible the formation of many public libraries, which soon sprang up in all the considerable towns of Germany, Italy, and France ; and in these and the several university libraries were gradually merged most of the small collections of the monasteries which were suppressed after the reformation.
M Printed vch. Dublin University Trinity College. British Museum 1 Manchester. Public ' ooo Oxford Bodleian Aix Meianes 1 Bordeaux. Lyons city. Sorbonne 1 Paris Institute. City City City Berlin City Royal , Bonn University.
University Carlsruhe Cassel City Electoral now royal ' 1, Darmstadt. Grand ducal 4, Dresden Royal Erlangen University. Freiburg City University. University ' Greifswald Halle University University , Hamburg Hanover. City " Royal. Jena University University , 2, Kiel University. University and city. Mentz Munich City University City University Grand ducal Ducal , University University Imperial..
When founded. Printed vols. Padua National Bourbon. University , , 5, 1 Parma. Royal Brussels Royal.. Royal Upsal..
University Helsingfors. Kiev University University , Moscow University. Petersburg St. It is probable that other libraries are large enough to be in- cluded in the list, but it is difficult to obtain statistics regarding them. There are several other collections in London which number nearly if not quite , volumes; the libra- ry of the university of Aberdeen has over 90,, and that of St.
