This Reading Room at the University of Oxford is One of the Oldest in Europe
Photograph by DAVID ILIFF. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0
Built in 1487, Duke Humfrey’s Library is named after Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, a younger son of Henry IV of England. He was a connoisseur of literature and commissioned translations of classical works from Greek into Latin. When he died in 1447, he donated his collection of 281 manuscripts to the University of Oxford. [...
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