Chester Beatty Library
Dublin Castle, Dublin 2, Ireland
Description:
The Chester Beatty Library is a famous Irish library with an extensive collection of medieval manuscripts, old books, scrolls and other ancient documents. Located in the capital of Ireland, Dublin.
The library of Chester Beatty is not much like an ordinary library - it is rather a museum where rare books and monuments of printed art, various ancient manuscripts are exhibited. The library was founded in 1950, and the basis of its collection consisted of exhibits provided by a wealthy American industrialist Chester Beatty.
Visitors are presented with an incredible exhibition. Its oldest exhibit is dated 2700 BC. Here are collected manuscripts from all corners of the Earth - from Egypt, Asia, Japan and Europe. The Chester Beatty Library contains the oldest handwritten copies of the Quran and the Bible, books from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Buddhist texts from Tibet and much more.
In general, the Chester Beatty Library is an absolutely unique collection of antiquities. At this place you can wander for hours, looking at ancient books, scrolls and papyri, while replenishing the baggage of knowledge.