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The British Library (BL) is the national library of the United Kingdom, and one of the world's largest libraries in terms of total number of items. The library is a major research library, holding over 150 million items from every country in the world, in virtually all known languages and in many formats, both print and digital: books, manuscripts, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, videos, playscripts, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints, drawings. The Library's collections include around 14 million books (second only to the USA's Library of Congress), along with substantial holdings of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 2000 BC. As a legal deposit library, the BL receives copies of all books produced in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, including a significant proportion of overseas titles distributed in the UK. It also has a significant budget for content acquisitions. The British Library adds some three million items every year occupying 11 kilometres of new shelf space. The library is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It is located on the north side of Euston Road in St Pancras, London, between Euston railway station and St Pancras railway station and at Boston Spa in Yorkshire. More about the British Library... Codex Sinaiticus (Hebrew: קודקס סינאיטיקוס‎, Greek: Σιναϊτικός Κώδικας; Shelfmarks and references: London, Brit. Libr., Additional Manuscripts 43725; Gregory-Aland nº א [Aleph] or 01, [Soden δ 2]) is an ancient hand-written copy of the Greek Bible. It is an Alexandrian text-type manuscript written in the 4th century in uncial letters on parchment. It came to the attention of scholars in the 19th century at the Greek Orthodox Monastery of Mount Sinai, with further material discovered in the 20th and 21st century. Although parts of the Codex are scattered across four libraries around the world, most of the manuscript today resides within the British Library. Since its discovery, study of the Codex Sinaiticus has proven to be extremely useful to scholars for the purposes of biblical translation. Originally, it contained the whole of both Testaments. Approximately half of the Greek Old Testament (or Septuagint) survived, along with a complete New Testament, plus the Epistle of Barnabas, and portions of The Shepherd of Hermas. The main gate of the British Library - designed by Liza Cardozo and David Kindersley - and its shadow. A bust of Colin Wilson on display in the foyer of the British Library. ... that British architect Sir Colin Wilson (bust pictured), known for designing the new British Library near St Pancras station, donated his collection of modern art to the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester? ... that the books and manuscripts in the Renaissance era Cotton library were categorized by their location in relation to busts of Caesars shelved alongside them? ... that grants given to the British Library by the Friends of the British Library have enabled it to acquire many historical treasures, such as the Dering Roll? ... that the Crawford Library was called the greatest philatelic library in the world when its owner died in 1913? ... that Menggu Ziyun is a 14th century rime dictionary of Chinese as written in the 'Phags-pa script? Ground floor “ The great British Library — an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or “pure English, undefiled” wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought. ” — Washington Irving (1783 –1859) The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1819 ▼ British Library ► British Library collections [−] Media The British Library WikiProject is a project that helps to assemble writers and editors interested in improving topics related to the British Library. The aim of this project is to standardize and improve articles related to the British Library, as well as to create any missing articles. To become a member of this WikiProject (anyone may join), simply click here and add your name.  FA   A   GA   B   C   Start   Stub   FL   List   Category   Portal   Project   Template   NA   ???  Total 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 More info on the project.... The following Wikimedia sister projects provide more on this subject:

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