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Austrian National Library

Vienna, Austria | C.1368

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The architect who designed it died in 1723, the very year construction began. His son, Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach, inherited the daunting task of completing his father’s vision. Prince Eugene of Savoy donated 15,000 books to the collection, reportedly worth more than the cost of building his entire palace. The volumes are bound in red, blue, and yellow Morocco leather and sit in the central oval beneath the dome. Hidden behind certain bookcases are secret staircases and passages, built so librarians could access the upper shelves without ruining the hall’s symmetry with visible stairs. Joseph Emanuel himself died in 1742 in a house fire, leaving behind a fortune of 130,000 florins. The library he finished for Emperor Charles VI still houses 200,000 volumes from 1501 to 1850.

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