The Romanian Academy Library (Biblioteca Academiei Romane), located in Bucharest, was founded in 1867 and, since 1885, is a depositary library serving as the first Romanian national library as well. Among its holdings numbering more than 11 million items the library hosts the most outstanding patrimonial collection of manuscripts including 6000 volumes of medieval and modern Romanian manuscripts, more than 1500 Greek and 860 Church Slavonic manuscripts, all dating from the XIIth.-XIXth. Centuries.