Sackler Library
| Sackler Library | |
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 Entrance to the new building between old buildings on St. John Street, Oxford
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| founding | 2001 |
| Duration | Oxford University Collection , specializing in Archeology , Art History and Classical Studies |
| Library type | University library |
| place | St John Street, Oxford |
| Website | www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/sackler/ |
The Sackler Library ( Sacklerbibliothek ) is the central library of the University of Oxford for scientific literature in the field of classical studies , archeology and art history .
history
The library's neo-classical building was completed in 2001 and opened on September 24 of this year. It replaces the library of the Ashmolean Museum . The location is 1 St John Street, at the back of the Ashmolean Museum. The library was founded and named after him through a generous donation from the pharmaceutical entrepreneur Mortimer Sackler .
The building was designed by the architects Robert Adam and Paul Hanvey . The striking building is characterized by a central round block. This is how it fulfills its classic purpose, as one of the outer walls is decorated with the model of a classic frieze . The design of the entrance goes back to the Doric order of the Temple of Apollo at Bassae , which was first examined by Charles Robert Cockerell and who designed the Ashmolean Museum.
Stocks
The library includes the collections of several older libraries, specifically the Ashmolean Library , the Classics Lending Library , the Eastern Art Library, and the History of Art Library . The most important collection focuses are:
- Middle Eastern archeology and cuneiform languages
- Egyptology and Coptic Studies
- Papyrology and Greco-Roman Egypt
- Classical Philology
- Old story
- Epigraphy
- numismatics
- Classical and Byzantine Archeology and Art
- Prehistoric archeology of Europe and North Africa
- Archeology of the Roman Provinces
- Archeology of the European Middle Ages
- European art history
- Asian art history
The library also houses around 100,000 fragments of the Oxyrhynchus papyri , one of the largest collections of Egyptian papyri in the world.
literature
- Robert Adam: The Sackler Library, Ancient and Modern . In: Donna C. Kurtz (editor): Reception of Classical Art. An Introduction. (= Studies in classical archeology. Volume 3). Beazley Archive and Archaeopress, Oxford 2004, ISBN 1-84171-645-6 , pp. 85-89.
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