A unique source for the history of the county in the Chained Library contained some of the earliest printed books in Europe, printed by the Gutenburg press.
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The main concern was to prevent the books contained within the chained library from being damaged, either by fire or water from the fire brigade's hoses.
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The main manuscripts containing Dominic's works are Bodely MS Rawlinson A . 287, Hereford Cathedral Chained Library MS P . 7 . vi, Balliol MS 240.
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The church has a small chained library of 17th-century theological works and some notable monumental brasses particularly the altar tomb of John Harewell and his wife Anna ( 1505 ).
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The Chained Library has about 1500 older books in its collection, dating mainly from the late 15th to the early 19th centuries, although it has some 56 books published before 1500.
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The cathedral houses two treasures which any visitor to the area must see, the fabulous medieval world map the Mappa Mundi and an extraordinary Chained Library of priceless medieval and Anglo Saxon manuscripts.
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The north porch was built to house relics of St Wulfram ( possibly an arm bone ), and the chained library occupies a room over the south porch which was once a priests'living room.
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The earliest example in England of a library to be endowed for the benefit of users who were not members of an institution such as a cathedral or college was the Francis Trigge Chained Library in Grantham, Lincolnshire, established in 1598.
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After much controversy, large donations from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Paul Getty and members of the public kept the map in Hereford and allowed the construction of a new library to house the map and the chained libraries from the Cathedral and All Saints'Church.
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After much controversy, large donations from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Paul Getty and members of the public, kept the map in Hereford and allowed the construction of a new library to house the map and the chained libraries from the Cathedral and All Saints'Church.
