Oxford University
 Balliol College |
 Not sure what college this was |
 Clarendon House |
 Quad of the Bodleian Library |
 Seal over the door |
 One quad of the library |
 Close-up of the ceiling |
 Inside door of the Bodleian Library |
 Another quad of the library |
 Museum of the History of Science |
 Trinity College |
 Inside the gates of Trinity College |
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Oxford University's great research library stands in a complex of historic buildings which includes the 15th-century Divinity School, built in 1488 for the teaching of theology. With its elaborate vaulted ceiling and carved bosses, it is a masterpiece of English Gothic architecture. The entrance is in the Old Schools Quadrangle, built in 1617. Painted over the doors are the Latin names of the schools to which they gave access. Leading off the Divinity School is the Convocation House where Oxford University's governing body once transacted its business and where Charles I's parliament also met during the Civil War. Above it is Duke Humfrey's Library, a medieval treasure-house of rare books and manuscripts which takes its name from Humfrey Duke of Gloucester, brother of Henry V. One of only six libraries entitled to a copy of every book published in the UK, the Bodleian now houses over six million books, principally in the New Bodleian Library in Broad Street and the circular Radcliffe Camera, built by James Gibbs in 1737--49. |
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