 While Leibniz's schoolwork was largely confined to the study of a small canon of authorities, his father's library enabled him to study a wide variety of advanced philosophical and theological works—ones that he would not have otherwise been able to read until his college years.Access to his father's library, largely written in Latin, also led to his proficiency in the Latin language, which he achieved by the age of 12.He also composed 300 hexameters of Latin verse, in a single morning, for a special event at school at the age of 13.