The Chester Beatty Library, now known as the Chester Beatty, is a museum and library in Dublin. It was established in Ireland in 1953, to house the collections of mining magnate, Sir Alfred Chester Beatty. The present museum, on the grounds of Dublin Castle, opened on 7 February 2000, the 125th anniversary of Beatty's birth and was named European Museum of the Year in 2002.
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'Manual on the Arts of Horsemanship' by al-Aqsara'i. Cairo, 1366.
Serapion of Edessa's Abridged Bible. Amida, 1601
Armenian Gospel Book made in Isfahan in 1655
Dublin is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2022 census, the city council area had a population of 592,713, while Dublin City and its suburbs had a population of 1,263,219, and County Dublin had a population of 1,501,500.
Image: Samuel Beckett Bridge At Sunset Dublin Ireland (97037639) (cropped)
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