It was founded in 1668 and it includes a library of ca.

12,500 volumes, including 13 incunabula and

156 works written in Bosnian Cyrillic.[1] It is a designated National Monument of Bosnia and
Herzegovina.[2] It is part of the Franciscan Province of Bosna Srebrena.
The monastery's museum collections holds the 15th century Ahd-Namah (the Order) of Sultan Mehmed
II the Conqueror guaranteeing security and freedom to the Franciscans. This document allowed the
Franciscans of the day to preach freely among the Catholics in BiH, which in turn enabled the
preservation of Bosnian Catholicism through the centuries.
The museum also houses the Book of Coats of Arms, dating from 1304—probably one of the oldest
books in the region—with historical coats of arms of some Balkan countries and of then-prominent
Bosnian families. A rare numismatic collection is also on exhibit.
Most of the works are philosophical and theological, printed from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The
library's archive preserves more than 3,000 documents from the Ottoman Empire, with 13 of them
dating back to 1481.