Bibliotheca Angelica

The Angelica Library (Latin: Biblioteca Angelica) is in Paradise City, Blackhelm Confederacy. It is a public library located on the Platea Sancte Augustus, next to the church of Sancte Augustus, not far from Platea Agonalis.

The library holds about 180,000 volumes of manuscripts and 1,100 incunabula. These works are important for our knowledge of the history of the Hesperidesian Crusades and the settlement of much of eastern Hesperidesia by Imperial settlers.

History

The library was established in 1523 by Aurelius Rocevius (1476–1540), and belonged to the Augustinian monastery. It was the first library in the Exponential Empire opened for a public service.

Since 1940, the library has housed the archives of the Academy of Arcadia. Since 1975, the library has been under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture.