State Hall of the Austrian National Library
You’re entering Austria’s largest library: the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek holds more than 12 million items, spread across several collections and museums. Its roots go back to 1368, when the Habsburg duke Albert III—born in 1349 and ruling until 1395—moved books from the Viennese vaults into a library and supported translating important works from Latin into German. That early collection included the 1368 golden Holy Gospels, owned by Albert III. In that same year, Johannes of Troppau—at the time a priest at Landskron and a canon in Brno—transcribed the four Gospels in gold letters with detailed illustrations in Burgundian book art, with coat-of-arms for Austria, Tirol, Styria, and Carinthia. Today the library complex is housed in the Hofburg, in the 18th-century Neue Burg wing, with the State Hall designed by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. …
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