October 3, 2022 Spent some time today at the British Library. Am trying shorten these posts as there is only so much time in the day and I keep falling behind in posting.
Every time we go to the Library we always seem to exit at the back side of the Kings Cross Underground station, meaning we have to walk all the way around it to get to Euston Road.
Then we always walk by St. Pancras Hotel, never going inside to look at how glorious it is inside as well as outside.
The British Library building is not what one expects since many of the famous buildings in London were built so very long ago.
Our destination. This is one of those places we visit every time we are in London.
The oldest surviving copy of the Magana Carta.
Another very early copy of the Magna Carta with the complete Royal Seal attached.
Ornate bible written in two languages with gold highlights,
One of the first English bibles. The church wouldn’t allow English bibles to be printed in England so they were printed in Germany. This copy belonged to Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII., Anne Boleyn was executed by beheading three years after her marriage to Henry.
We are avid viewers of the British TV series, Time Team which is available on YouTube. In many of the archeological dig the team is shown consulting old maps to help determine what was where. This is a map of the type they use and dates from the late 1600’s.
The lighting is very low in the gallery and with some exceptions, the Beatles exhibit being one of them, photography is allowed with no flash.
Michelangelo did not just start chipping away at a chunk of marble. He extensively studied human anatomy and the results show the effort it takes be a genius at something.
Shakespeare’s First Folio.
Of the millions of books in the Library, Linda found one she liked best in the bookstore.
It is always amazing how fast the underground trains come into the stations.
The Piccadilly Line is known as a deep line. It takes two levels of extremely long escalators to go down to the tracks or up to the surface.
