In the core of Monreale (PA), next to the famous beautiful Cathedral, there was a big Benedictine monastery, named Santa Maria La Nuova. In 1875 it was expropriated from the Church to become the Municipal Library of the town (but it kept the name Santa Maria La Nuova).
The original collection of the Benedictines (in part transferred to the Archiepiscopal Seminary from cardinal Ludovico II De Torres) was enriched by some volumes arriving from the convent of San Martino delle Scale and from the Capuchin monastery of Monreale.
This collection contains about forty-four Hebrew printed books, mainly grammars (14) and Hebrew-Latin dictionaries (14).
