The Library of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universit\u00e4t Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg holds more than 2,400 manuscripts from the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period as well as more than 2,000 incunabula. The private library of the Nuremberg scholar Christoph Jacob Trew (1695-1769), with about 34,000 prints one of the largest preserved scientific scholar libraries of the time, and his letter collection with about 19,000 letters of the 15th to 18th centuries belong together with single-sheet prints, estates, papyri and coins from antiquity to modern times to the unique collections.<\/p>\n\n\n
For more details about the holdings of the University Library and their provenance see the entry of the University Library in „Handbuch der Historischen Buchbest\u00e4nde in Deutschland, \u00d6sterreich und Europa“<\/a> („Handbook of Historical Book Collections in Germany, Austria, and Europe“).<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n