The Chester Beatty Library is a library and museum in Dublin .
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Here is an extensive collection of antique and medieval manuscripts, old printed books and works of art, both religious and secular. Many exhibits are of Near and Far Eastern origin. The library has many unique documents on the history of Ancient Egypt, the early manuscripts of the Bible and the Koran. The basis of the funds is a private collection of American industrialist Alfred Chester Beatty .
The museum was founded in 1950, since 2000 it has been located in Dublin Castle .
In 2002 he received the title of “European Museum of the Year”.
Collection
The time frame of the collection is from 2700 BC. e. and up to the present.
The Western section presents biblical texts on papyrus from the 2nd to 4th centuries, including very early texts of the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles , letters of St. Paul, a number of very early fragments of the New Testament. In addition, the department has many Armenian and Western European manuscripts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, as well as incunabula and old printed books. A collection of Manichaean sources, unique in size and importance, is also stored here.
The Islamic collection includes 6,000 written documents, calligraphers and drawings, as well as a unique collection of 260 full and fragmentary copies of the Koran , some of which date back to the end of the 8th century. Some copies of the Koran are made by leading calligraphers of the Islamic world.
The East Asian department presents a large number of albums and scrolls from China, a large collection of jade books from the Imperial Court of China and a collection of textile and other decorative and applied products, for example, a collection of 950 Chinese snuff-boxes.
Japan is represented by illustrated books on the ancient Japanese capital Nara , as well as numerous works by Japanese artists of the 17th – 19th centuries, among them works by Hokusai and Hiroshige .
The department funds include a large number of Tibetan Buddhist manuscripts, manuscripts from Thailand, Burma, Mongolia, as well as Jain, Hindu and Sikh books from India, Sri Lanka and Nepal. In addition, the department funds belong to the sacred books of the Batak people from the island of Sumatra .