The Codrington Library, All Souls College

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Extracts from the College website -
“All Souls College was planned, built, and endowed in the 1430s by Henry Chichele, long-serving Archbishop of Canterbury. It received its foundation charter in 1438 from King Henry VI, co-opted by the Archbishop as the College's co-founder. Henry Chichele was in his seventies at the time, and this, his third Oxford benefaction, situated right at the University's heart, was the fruit of careful reflection about what was needed in a new college. The Codrington Library started to be built on 21 June 1716, to a plan by Nicholas Hawksmoor, but the fitting out was not completed until 1751. The Library has some 185,000 volumes, about a third of which were printed before 1800.”