Ruiz Luque Library: Set in Montilla the constitution of its funds is a personal labour of its founder, who over fifty years has managed to put together a collection of quality and exceptionally rare works. The library contains a wide selection dedicated to local history, probably the most complete in Spain; travel books, geographical and scientific treatises, literature, moral works, and an extensive section of bibliographies. A large number of varied rare pamphlets are also preserved in the library. It must also be said that this type of printed material is very difficult to find in any library due to its short-lived publication life, which only goes to increase its interest remarkably. The same can be said of the exceptional eighteenth century publications which came from local presses, such as the very rare prints from Montilla, Utrera or Baeza. The library also holds at least one copy of the first publications made in Cordoba, Seville and Malaga.

Its manuscript section rich and varied, 501 pieces, above all everything related to the history of Andalusia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. There are a lot of legal documents as well as some extremely rare literary manuscripts, some foreign, most of them unpublished. In this section there are various unpublished stories of Montilla and other Andalusian cities. Amongst its possessions is the founding manuscript of 'Santa Ana de las Cuevas'.

As regards the number of copies, the library holds approximately 30,000 publications of which more than 20,000 belong to the old collection, between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Some hundreds of these are not in the Collective Catalogue of the Spanish Bibliographic Heritage, which is why they have to be provisionally estimated as unique copies. There are a lot of local and general history books from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries including literature, travel, sacred oratory, scientific treatises and bibliographies. The best printers of the period, such as Joaquin de Ibarra or Enrique Rasco, are widely represented. There is also a considerable quantity of publications related to the Spanish Civil War. The bibliographic collection, which includes the antiquary catalogues, has over 7,000 pieces, from the nineteenth century to the present day. Its remarkable collection of pamphlets and single sheet publications is perhaps the most complete in Andalusia.

By analysing this collection it can be asserted that it is not a library of residues but of a purposefully compiled structured collection, most significantly in the case of history and of local Andalusian and Spanish printers. The quality of the copies, which is not an anecdotic part in the constitution of a prestigious library, is ensured since it was a bibliophile who put it together.