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The National Library of Greece ( Greek: Εθνική Βιβλιοθήκη της Ελλάδος, romanized : Ethnikí Vivliothíki tis Elládos) is the main public library of Greece, located in Athens. Founded by Ioannis Kapodistrias in 1832, its mission is to locate, collect, organize, describe and preserve the perpetual evidence of Greek ...
NLG in a Nutshell. The National Library of Greece is the par excellence depository and trustee for Greece’s cultural heritage. Founded. 1829. Status. Legal entity of public law supervised by the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs. Supervisory Council. Stavros Zoumboulakis (President), Emmanouil Dimitrakopoulos (Vice President ...
Among the collections of the National Library of Greece, there are 149 incunabula and this is the biggest collection of incunabula in Greece. To the above number must be added a rich collection of 4,500 manuscripts codices from the 9th to 19th century, a variety of historical documents, archives of personalities, the Archive of the Greek ...
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Starting in 2017, the National Library of Greece successfully completed in 2018 its relocation from the Vallianeio historic neoclassical building in downtown Athens to its new premises at the SNFCC. Moving 720,760 items of the Library’s collection was a painstakingly complex and demanding venture that lasted three months. It demanded the ...
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The National Library of Greece’s collection contains over 2.000.000 items, among them 5.200 manuscripts that include over 300 Greek New Testament manuscripts and hand-written renditions of works by Aristotle, Plato and Homer.
