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Historian Malcolm Walsby examines Renaissance books from our Old Library collection that reveal details about their successive owners and the ways in which they were altered over the centuries.

For our 15th anniversary, two special days of visits, demonstrations, storytelling and the chance to visit the chapel, Médiathèque and current exhibitions with a crêpe car in the courtyard too!

Visit our Old Library which houses 8,000 historic books including three illuminated manuscripts dating from the Middle Ages.

Visit our Old Library which houses 8,000 historic books including three illuminated manuscripts dating from the Middle Ages.

Visit our Old Library which houses 8,000 historic books including three illuminated manuscripts dating from the Middle Ages.

Writing or drawing in the margins of a book was quite acceptable up to the 19th-century. Emmanuelle Chapron discusses the wonderful variety of marginalia in works held in our Old Library collection.

This evening, in the candlelit surroundings of the Old Library, Marc Roger will read from 'The Battle of the Books' by Jonathan Swift.

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Discover the history of the collection and admire our three illuminated manuscripts

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