San Marco’s public library served up to a thousand literate male citizens

Evidence

The San Marco library would open with 400 volumes chained to the sixty-four reading benches. Access was restricted to literate male citizens of the city with scholarly interests, but this may have encompassed up to 1,000 men in fifteenth-century Florence. — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 157

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 157