Monastery library

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With the beginning of the construction of the Humac monastery, the Ljubuški and Herzegovinian Franciscans founded the monastery library in 1867. When the monastery was built, the books were in different rooms. In 1968, a special room was arranged in the western wing of the monastery, where all books with manuscripts and archival documents were transferred. Today, the library has over 20,000 copies of books from almost all areas of natural and social sciences: asceticism, fiction, biblical sciences, history, law, Franciscanism, catechesis, vocabulary, linguistics, natural sciences, etc. It contains well-preserved old books from the period from the 16th to the 19th century. A special part includes periodicals from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. The rarities of the Humac library include a group of books of Greco-Roman classics and works by Franciscan writers. Among others, it is worth mentioning: Homer's Odyssey printed in 1533, Iliad printed in 1537, Plutarch's Moralia opusculorum, Herodian's Historiae, Cicero's Epistolae ad Atticum, poems by Horace Flak published in 1606, and works by Croatian greats Matija Divković, Ivan Ančić, Filip Last Lovro Šitović, Rafa Barišić and the works of the Herzegovinian Franciscans. At the end of 2003, the library was thoroughly renovated and located in the west wing of the monastery.

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