The library at Alcobaça was one of the largest Portuguese mediaeval libraries, but was pillaged by the invading French in 1810, and many items were stolen in an anti-clerical riot in 1834, when the religious orders in Portugal were dissolved.
Biblioteket i Alcobaça kom att bli ett av de största av Portugals medeltida bibliotek, men plundrades av invaderande fransmän 1810, och många föremål stals under ett antiklerikalt uppror 1834, då religiösa ordnarna i Portugal upplöses.