The main focus of the Augustinianum is on patristics, theology, canon law and the history of ancient Christianity. Its specialized library, member of the URBiS library network, is one of the best for the study of Early Christianity, with a collection of approx. 60,000 volumes and 500 periodicals. The Institute also has the Corpus of the Coptic Literary Manuscripts (CMCL), an important photographic archive which comprises the largest number of texts and fragments of Coptic Christian literature. For further information (e.g. access, opening hours, events, etc.) please consult the Augustinianum's website.
Via Paolo VI, 25, 00193 Rome
tel. 06 6800 6238 or 06 68 88 69 or biblioteca [at] patristicum.org (biblioteca[at]patristicum[dot]org)