Library
The university's Jagiellonian Library (Biblioteka Jagiellońska) is one of Poland's largest, with almost 6.5 million volumes. It has a large collection of medieval manuscripts, including Copernicus' De Revolutionibus and the Balthasar Behem Codex.
The library also has an extensive collection of underground political literature (so-called drugi obieg or samizdat) from Poland's period of Communist rule between 1945 and 1989.
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