However by the time he died in 1455 , the collection had swelled to about 1500 codices and was the largest in europe .

而在他1455年去世时，已有1500件手稿，数量在当时的欧洲居首位。

The library snapped codices in ethiopia ( see picture ) some of which were destroyed after the marxist coup of 1975 .

该馆拍摄了埃塞俄比亚的古书（见图），其中一些毁于1975年的共产主义政变。