Rossellò Fund

A jurist and bibliophile of Majorcan origin (Cagliari, c. 1560–1613), Monserrat Rossellò owned one of the most important private libraries in modern Sardinia (about 4,500 editions), which he bequeathed to the Jesuit College of Santa Croce along with an annual income of 25 ducats to purchase new books, with the clause that they bear the Monserrati Rossellò ex libris.
Following the suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773, his entire collection passed to the University Library of Cagliari. The most important section is represented by works of a religious nature, but there are also numerous works on civil and canon law. There are also Greek and Latin classics, philosophical texts, treatises on medicine, botany, mathematics, and geometry, some poetic works by Sardinian writers such as Antonio Cano, Antonio lo Frasso, and Gerolamo Araolla, and important texts published in Cagliari in the printing house founded in 1566 by Niccolò Canelles.
There are also some extremely rare items, such as the Bible printed in Lyon in 1494 by Mathias Huss (Inc. 95), of which no other copies are known to exist in Italy.