Codrington Library
| Codrington Library | |
|---|---|
 The Great Library | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Type | Academic library |
| Established | 1751 |
| Location | All Souls College, Oxford |
| Collection | |
| Items collected | books, journals, newspapers, magazines, maps, drawings and manuscripts |
| Size | 185,000 items |
| Access and use | |
| Access requirements | Open to members of Oxford University upon application, and to external scholars by appointment. |
| Website | Codrington Library |
The Codrington Library is a historic academic library in the city of Oxford, England.[1] It is the library of All Souls College (a constituent college of the University of Oxford). The library in its current form was endowed by Christopher Codrington (1668–1710), a Fellow of the college who amassed his fortune through plantation slavery.[2] The library was completed in 1751, and has been in continuous use by scholars since then. The modern collection comprises some 185,000 volumes, about a third of which were produced before 1800.[3] The library contains one of the largest collections of manuscript and early printed books in the United Kingdom, and attracts scholars from around the world.
References
- ↑ John S Simmons, A note on the Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford, Oxford: All Souls College, 1982
- ↑ James Walvin, Slavery and the Building of Britain, BBC.
- ↑ All Souls College, The Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford
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