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Braidense has always had the dual role of both the preservation of historical and literary works and of maintaining its collection of all books published in Milan. It currently has 898,377 printed volumes, 2,119 manuscripts and 2,368
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Pertusati collection, the library also contained the holdings of the Collegio Braidense and the Jesuit houses of San Fedele and San Girolamo.
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