Abstract
The Jesuit scholar/teacher Claude Clement published in 1627 a work on libraries which is addressed to the users of his time. In it he described an ideal library with the expanded library concept of the Baroque age: a collection that is universal in scope and organized according to the fields of knowledge taught at the universities, and a well designed picture programme that embellishes the interior of the library hall and that is designed to guide visitors in their search for the spiritual. In the tradition of Horace's Ut pictura poesis, the print and art components are of equal importance, both forming the hybrid Baroque library he described. This paper explores this concept elaborated in the first three books of Clement's treatise and summarizes Book Four which is a guide to study methods and the proper use of the library
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