Formed Collection
Valente Collection
The 7,200 titles in the Valente Collection are mainly in Portuguese and date from the 17th-19th Centuries. The collection reflects the wide range of the Valente family's interests over the years: Portuguese literature, history, art, bibliography, music and folklore, canon law, civil law, theology and politics. A particular feature of the collection is its 1,400 items of Portuguese drama of the last three centuries. All the material printed before 1801 is held in the Rare Book Collection; the remainder of the Valente library forms part of the Library's General Collection.
The Valente Collection is complemented by a further 1,500 volumes of Portuguese and Brazilian drama, covering the 16th-20th Centuries. This collection was bought in 1974. It includes critical works and theatrical ephemera as well as texts of plays.
