Reblogging for all you book and library lovers: Never before seen images of the oldest Bodleian Library reading room. How I’d love to write there, surrounded by history! Click through to the article for more images.
Photograph by DAVID ILIFF. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0 Built in 1487, Duke Humfrey’s Library is the oldest reading room in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. 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…
via This Reading Room at the University of Oxford is One of the Oldest in Europe — TwistedSifter
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Love this picture! Want to GO!
Wonder who you have to be to USE this library? The interiors look like holy ground, inspiring a suitably reverent attitude!
I’m just blown away!!