It boasts 150,000 volumes which includes numerous partitives, codices, incunabula and bibles. Collections range from important medieval and modern manuscripts to incunabula, papyri, autographs, ostraka and coins. The earliest printed books and broadsheets are known as incunabula. Among them, are many valuable bibliographical jewels, such as incunabula. Block books are categorized as incunabula, or books printed before 1501. From 1898, he was in charge of cataloguing the incunabula of Dresden library. The Franciscan monastery's library possesses 30,000 volumes, 216 incunabula, 1,500 valuable handwritten documents. Many incunabula are undated, needing complex bibliographical analysis to place them correctly. The Franciscan monastery's library possesses 30,000 volumes, 22 incunabula, 1,500 valuable handwritten documents. There are a number of other "incunabula" or early editions. Special Collections holds over 300 incunabula most of which are in the Brotherton Collection. Books printed prior to 1500 are known as "incunabula". The term "incunabula" came to denote the printed books themselves in the late 17th century. Latin printers of incunabula lacked the typeface to render it. Studies of incunabula began in the 17th century.