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characters, dates to around the year 780 and was the only book to survive the 1055 fire. Many of the books and manuscripts were collected from
Herefordshire, with many of those from the 14th century onwards related to county law. For several centuries books were stored in cupboards or wooden chests
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Chained Library has about 1500 older books in its collection, dating mainly from the late 15th to the early 19th centuries, although it has some 56 books published before 1500. The bulk of the collection is of books on theology, biblical and church studies and law. Aside from the 150 volumes,
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was appointed deputy librarian and he greatly improved the library and paid attention to details such as the room temperature and cleanliness. B. F. Streeter was responsible for a major change in the organisation of the library as were librarians such as
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of the 13th century. Another treasure is an ancient reliquary of oak, bequeathed to the cathedral by Canon
Russell, said to have been obtained it from a Roman Catholic family in whose possession it had long been. It is covered with copper plates overlaid with
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Transept and the Victorian Dean Leigh Library. In 1854,
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chained to their places, some of them fine specimens of ancient handwriting, containing beautiful illustrations in gold and colour. The library has an ancient and well-preserved
Hereford
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Chapter proposed the sale of the Mappa Mundi and aroused considerable national opposition. Following the setting up of a dedicated trust, a donation from Sir
235:(the largest medieval map known to still exist) and other valuable manuscripts from the medieval period were kept elsewhere in safety and returned to the collection in 1946.
162:. Hereford Cathedral Library is also well known for its chained books as it is the only library of this type to survive with all of the chains, rods and locks still intact.
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Driver, Christopher (19 November 1988). "World time forgot: the 13th-century world map up for sale is not the only neglected treasure of
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until the first library room was established, in the south-west cloister of the cathedral, in the 15th century.
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Blake, Monica (April 2004). "Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984 now available via EBSCOhost®".
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