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While you're studying various timeworn novels, you can take a moment to look up and admire Jan Hiebl's heavenly, Renaissance-style ceiling paintings with the symbolic designs that represent the importance of education, along with fantastic portraits of Jesuit saints and walk through the corridors that hosts Jan Hiebl’s astronomical clocks.
Hiebl's paintings actually pay tribute to the fact that the library was originally a Jesuit university. Many of the school's rare, 17th-century books are among its collection today. Now, Google has several of these volumes in their possession because they're scanning them for Google Books that gives the opportunity to search and preview millions from libraries and publishers worldwide.
In 1777, Maria Theresa declared Klementinum to be a public and university library, allowing its treasure to be seen and discovered by everyone.

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Klementinum Library
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