Wren Library
The Wren Library is that the library of Trinity school in Cambridge. It was designed by Saint Christopher Wren in 1676 and completed in 1695.
The library could be a single giant area engineered over Associate in Nursing open colonnade on the bottom floor of Nevile's Court. The floor of the library correct inside the higher construction lies many feet below the external division between the 2 storeys, adaptative the strain of use with the harmony of architectural proportion. It is attributable as being one in all the primary libraries to be engineered with giant windows to present comfy lightweight levels to assist readers.
The book stacks are arranged in rows perpendicular to the walls under the intervals between the windows. At the top of every stack could be a fine limewood carving by Grinling Gibbons, and on top of these square measure patch busts of notable writers through the ages. Other marble busts standing on plinths depict notable members of the school and square measure principally graven by Louis-François Roubiliac. A later addition may well be a full size sculpture of Lord Lord martyr Gordon Byron graven by Bertel Thorvaldsen, originally offered to Westminster Abbey for inclusion in Poets' Corner, but refused thanks to the poet's name for immorality.
On the east balusters of the library's roof square measure four statues by archangel Cibber representing Divinity, Law, medicine (medicine), and Mathematics.
Cloisters beneath main library room. Note ceiling level at springing point of exterior arches rather than at their peak.
As a part of the advanced of buildings encompassing Nevile's Court, nice Court and New Court, the library is a Grade I listed building.
The other library designed by Wren is Lincoln Cathedral Library.
Notable books
The library contains several notable rare books and manuscripts, many bequeathed by past members of the college.
Included in the collection are
Isaac Newton's 1st edition copy of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica with written notes for the second edition.
Isaac Newton's (1659–61) Notebook
An eighth-century copy of the Epistles of St Paul
About 1250 medieval manuscripts including the great 12th-century Eadwine Psalter from Christ Church, Canterbury, the 13th-century Anglo-Norman Trinity Apocalypse and the 15th-century Trinity Carol Roll.
A. A. Milne's manuscript of Winnie-the-Pooh and also the House at Pooh Corner.
The Capell collection of early Shakespeare editions
A collection of autograph poems by John Milton
A 14th-century manuscript of The Vision of Piers Plowman
Several works written by printer, including the first book printed in English and the first dated printed book produced in England
Several notebooks written by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Handwritten notes by Robert Oppenheimer describing the "Trinity" atomic bomb test in New Mexico, U.S.
Ramanujan's "lost notebook"
1620 edition of William Morgan's translation of the bible into Welsh
· Digitization programmed
In early 2014 the library began a major programme of digitisation. To date, over one hundred sixty of the 1250 medieval manuscripts in hand by the school are digitised and square measure freely obtainable to scan on-line. A link to the list of digitised manuscripts can be found in the external links below.
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