Inside the premises of the library, but in a completely autonomous space, the Ancient Book Fund of the Euromediterranean Province of the Society of Jesus is housed. The fund was created following some organizational, pastoral, charitable and educational movements which, in recent decades, they have affected religious houses, theological schools, Jesuit institutes and seminaries, determining their transfers and, in some cases, even the closure and therefore the need to transport the goods present there elsewhere. These included almost always a library with more or less extensive collections of ancient books. As a result of these movements and transformations, tens of thousands of books over the years have been transferred to places capable of receiving and preserving them, ending up constituting three huge deposits of ancient books, one in Gallarate, at the Aloysianum Institute, another in Naples at the ‘Gesù Nuovo’ Community, and the third in Palermo, at the Gonzaga Campus. 

The concentration in three different cities of the books coming from the closure of the Houses respectively in the north, center and south of the Province has actually created three distinct book deposits which, through the recovery and enhancement project, we wanted to qualify as a unitary “Fund Librario Antico ”which, considering only the books published by 1830, currently amounts to over 100,000 units.