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de Vesci Collection

The National Library's de Vesci Collection is another country house library - an Irish Protestant one. Although it covers much the same period and subjects as the Clifford Collection, there is remarkably little duplication between the two.

This rare book collection contains about 4,000 volumes and consists of two distinct parts. The first, covering the 15th-18th Centuries, is strong in religion, philosophy, law and the classics. The second part of the collection is largely 19th Century, and has strength in the subjects of history, travel, science, literature and Irish affairs. As a matter of interest, it is to this collection that the Library's oldest complete printed book belongs: a 1478 Venice edition of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea, or 'Golden Legend'.

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