Preface / Sir Colin Lucas -- Notes on contributors -- Chronology -- Abbreviations -- Introduction : from texts to collections / David Pearson -- The foundation collections. Henry VIII's library and ...

For only its second time on loan, the earliest known Bible is going on view this October at the British Museum. The Codex Sinaiticus at the British Library (courtesy British Library) For only its ...

The British Library's collection of Ethiopian manuscripts is the richest in Europe, where there are in fact numerous public and private collections of such manuscripts. Three inventory catalogs have ...

George Bernard Shaw called it his “magnificent library in Bloomsbury.” Samuel Butler said the two places where he was happiest were home and the British Museum. Many of the best brains of the last two ...