BODLEIAN: THE NEW EDITION

摘要

Home to more than 11 million books and manuscripts, the Bodleian in Oxford is one of the world's most important libraries. Among the artefacts to be found in the UK's second-largest collection - after the British Library - are a quarter of the world's original copies of the Magna Carta, the private papers of six British prime ministers, a Gutenberg Bible, the earliest surviving book written entirely in English and almost 10,000 western medieval and renaissance manuscripts. Founded in 1602, the University of Oxford's world-famous Bodleian Library is one of the oldest in Europe. It is also a copyright library -one of only six depositories in the country that is sent copies of all books published in the UK and, latterly, Ireland. And as such, one logistical feature has defined the Bodleian's long history: expansion.