Abstract
An Analysis of the Content of the Library of the Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol (1529-1595), based on its estate inventory from 1596 - texts on rhetoric and philology: ancient works about language and literature (grammar, rhetoric, epistolography), medieval grammar books, humanist handbooks (grammar, dictionaries, stylistic, rhetoric, epistolography). Books on Latin, Old Greek, Hebrew, German, Czech, French, Italian, Spanish, and other languages.