Collections

The Biblioteca Nacional is the main information and document centre on Spanish and Ibero-American written, graphic and audiovisual culture. Its collections include all kinds of material and its holdings are largely enriched through acquisitions: purchase, copyright, donation and exchange.

 

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Manuscripts, cartography, sound files...

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The best works, ordered by interests

Drawings

One of the most important collections in the country both for the quality and the volume of its works

De aetatibus mundi imagines
Incunables

Libros impresos antes del 1 de enero de 1501

Ethica ad Nicomachum
Music and musicology

Partituras manuscritas e impresas, libros y folletos de música y musicología etc.

Missae sex Philippi Rogerii
Geography and maps

Formed by a large number of old maps and modern around the world.

[Derrotero del Mediterráneo y costa atlántica]
Manuscripts

The most important of all hispanic level both for its size and importance, the richness and variety of funds

Códice de Metz
Ephemera

"extensive and varied range of pictorial developed with a specific purpose that their aim is to survive the timeliness of its message".

[Habilitaciones.. Figuras alegóricas y mitológicas]
Impresos antiguos y reservados

Formada por piezas fundamentales de la historia, la literatura y la música

Retorico (aunque mudo Romance) a la Inmaculada Concepcion de N. Señora ... dedicado a ... Felipe IV ...
Posters

The posters are documents with ephemeral nature, made to provide information about an event, to announce a new product or to persuade the masses to attending an event.

Anís del Mono