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The Clementinum (Klementinum in Czech) is the national library of the Czech Republic situated in Prague.

Curiosities

  • At one time Clementinum was the third largest Jesuit college in the world.
  • The oldest weather recording in area of today's Czech Republic started in Clementinum in 1775. The recording continues through the present day (details in Czech).
  • Clementinum is mentioned in The Secret Miracle by Jorge Luis Borges. The main character has a dream of the library of Clementinum where the librarians look for God in the books of the library. One of the librarians says: God is in one of the letters of one of the pages of one of the four hundred thousand books of Clementinum. My fathers and the fathers of my fathers have looked for this letter; I myself have gone blind looking for it.
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