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Coordinates:53°20′31″N6°16′01″W / 53.342°N 6.267°W /53.342; -6.267

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Chester Beatty

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Former name	Chester Beatty Library
Established	1953
Location	Dublin Castle, Dublin
Coordinates	53°20′31″N6°16′01″W / 53.342°N 6.267°W /53.342; -6.267
Type	Art Museum, library, Visitor Attraction
Collections	The Chester Beatty is Ireland’s leading museum of world cultures, caring for and sharing an extraordinary collection of manuscripts, rare books, miniature paintings and other decorative objects that are of world importance. With collections from Europe, the Middle East and across Asia, the role of the museum is unique in Ireland’s cultural landscape.
Collection size	approx 25,000
Visitors	530,000 (2024)
Founder	Sir Alfred Chester Beatty
Public transit access	Luas, Dublin Bus, DART
Website	chesterbeatty.ie

TheChester Beatty Library, now known as theChester Beatty, is a museum and library in the grounds ofDublin Castle, Ireland. It was established in 1953 at 20 Shewsbury Road, Dublin 4,^[1] to house the collections of mining magnate, SirAlfred Chester Beatty.^[2] The present museum opened on 7 February 2000, the 125th anniversary of Beatty's birth and was namedEuropean Museum of the Year in 2002.^[3]

The Chester Beatty is one of the premier sources for scholarship in both the Old and New Testaments and is home to one of the most significant collections of historical artefacts and manuscripts from all over the world.^[4]^[5] The museum also offers numerous temporary exhibitions, many of which include works of art on loan from foreign institutions and collections. The museum contains a number of priceless objects, including one of the surviving volumes of the first illustratedLife of the Prophet and theGospel of Mani, one of the last survivingManichaean scriptures.^[6]^[7] Many manuscripts from theMedinet Madi library are currently held at the Chester Beatty Library.^[8]^[9]

Galleries

The museum's collections are displayed in two galleries: "Sacred Traditions" and "Arts of the Book". Both displays exhibit manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books and some decorative arts from the Persian, Islamic, East Asian and Western Collections.^[10]

Collections

Western Collections

The Western Collection houses many illuminated manuscripts, rare books and Old Master prints and drawings. With biblical texts written in Armenian, Church Slavonic, Coptic, Ge’ez, Greek, Latin and Syriac, the collection's Christian material comes from diverse cultural and geographical backgrounds. The papyrus codices in the Chester Beatty includePapyrus 45 andPapyrus 46 among others which are some of the earliest surviving Christian artefacts in the world. In addition, a significant proportion of the rare printed books and prints are also Christian in focus.^[11] The collection of papyri is one of the most extensive in the world and includes almost the entire corpus of Ancient Egyptian Love Songs.

Islamic Collections

The Islamic Collection is divided between theArabic,Persian,Turkish,Qur'an and Mughal-Era Indian Collections. The Arabic texts include treatises on religion, history, jurisprudence, medicine, geography, mathematics, astronomy and linguistics. Some of the finest miniatures from imperial Mughal albums, calledMuraqqa', are housed in the Chester Beatty Library, with important paintings from theLate Shah Jahan Album and theMinto Album. The albums were the subject of an exhibition and publication by the Islamic curator, Dr Elaine Wright,Muraqqa': Imperial Albums of the Chester Beatty Library. Often on display is theIbn al-Bawwab Qur'an, copied by one of the greatest medieval Islamic calligraphers.

Persian Collection

The Persian collection contains various miniatures and manuscripts of classical Persian poets such asFerdowsi andNizami.^[12]

East Asian Collections

The East Asian Collection has one of the most extensive collections of carved snuff bottles, many of which were included in the catalogue,The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin: Chinese Snuff Bottles. It also has Japanese art, including a pair of long picture-scrolls painted in the 17th century byKanō Sansetsu.^[13]

Collection highlights

Source:^[14]

Arabic collection

'Manual on the Arts of Horsemanship' by al-Aqsara'i.Cairo, 1366.

Armenian collection

Serapion of Edessa's Abridged Bible.Amida, 1601
ArmenianGospel Book made inIsfahan in 1655

Biblical papyri collection

Papyrus 45
Fragments ofPapyrus 46

Burmese collection

Court amusements and ceremonies.Myanmar, 19th century
Court amusements and ceremonies. Myanmar, after 1885

Chinese collection

Chapters 10,110 to 10,112 of the 'Great encyclopaedia of the Yongle Reign'
Imperially commissioned illustrations of agriculture and sericulture. Woodblock print byZhu Gui after designs byJiao Bingzhen. 1696
Paintings of birds and flowers byHu Mei. 18th century
'Diamond Sutra' written in Chinese, engraved and gilded on fifty-threefolios ofnephrite jade. 1732
'Song of the jade bowl written by the imperial brush (Yubi yu weng ge)'. 1745
'South façade of the Palace of Harmonious Delights (Xieqiqu nanmian)'. After drawing byYi Lantai. Between 1781 and 1787
Handscroll of birds and flowers. Circa 1800
Paintings of insects and fish. Early 19th century

Coptic collection

Wooden boards. Egypt, Third century
Papyrus with the fragments of theBook of Joshua. Egypt, 4th century
Coptic manuscript of the 'Pauline Epistles &Gospel of John'. Egypt, circa 600

Egyptian Papyrus collection

Manuscript of 'Contendings of Horus and Seth'
Book of the Dead of Lady Neskhons. Egypt, c. 300 BC

Ethiopian collection

The Resurrection. From an Ethiopian prayer book. 17th or early 18th century
Gospels of Matthew and Mark inGeʽez. 18th century
Scroll containing magical prayers to protect against evil in Geʽez. 19th century.

Hebrew collection

Machzor written onparchment inHebrew in anItalian square script.Italy, 14th or 15th century
Sefer Torah on parchment written in Hebrew in aSefardic square script in the 18th century.

Indian collection

Portrait ofRaisal Darbari.Allahabad, circa 1600-1605
Jujhar Singh Bundela kneels in submission toShah Jahan byBichitr, circa 1630
Awrangzib Hunts Nilgais. Circa 1660
Women on a palace terrace with a panoramic view.Faizabad, 1770
A woman preparing a meal.Kangra, c. 1810
Begum Samru and her household by Muhammad A'zam. Delhi, c. 1820
Iris, painted lacquer album cover. Delhi, c. 1850

Indian (non-Mughal) collection

Manuscript of theAṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra. Nepal, 1317
Manuscript of the Book of ritual (Kalpa-sūtra) and Story of the monk Kālaka (Kālakācārya-kathā).Gujarat, 1522
Two and a Half Continents.Jain cosmographical painting. Western India, late 18th - 19th century
Bhagavata Purana. Northern India, late 18th or early 19th century

Islamic collection

Parchment Qur'an manuscript. PossiblySyria orYemen, c. 700-750
Folio from the parchment Qur'an manuscript. Syria, c. 900
Two folios from theBlue Quran
TheIbn al-Bawwab Qur'an.Baghdad, 1000/1001
Qur'an copied byMuhammad ibn al-Wahid.Cairo, c. 1306-1310
Juz' 27 of the Qur'an copied and illuminated byAhmad ibn Kamal al-Mutatabbib. Cairo, 1332-1336
Ruzbihan Qur'an.Shiraz, c. 1550

Japanese collection

Jizō Bosatsu.Hanging scroll, 15th century
The Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari). Manuscript from the late 16th century
Pair ofhandscroll paintings with scenes fromNagauta Song byKanō Sansetsu, c. 1640s
17th century manuscript of theŌeyama Emaki.
17th century manuscript ofThe Tale of Genji
Dutch mansions inDejima,Nagasaki (Nagasaki Dejima Rankan no zu). Handscroll from the 18th century
Eleventh month (Jūichi gatsu). Woodblock print from the seriesTwelve months of the southern quarter (Minami jūni ko) byTorii Kiyonaga, c. 1783
Five cranes on a spit of sand.Surimono byKubo Shunman, probably 1816
Benkei crab and plum blossom. Surimono byYashima Gakutei with poems signedBunbunsha, c.1823
Seven-mile beach in Sagami province (Sōshū Shichiri-ga-hama). Woodblock print from the seriesThirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei) byKatsushika Hokusai, c. 1831
Plum Park in Kameido, woodblock print from the seriesOne Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei) byUtagawa Hiroshige, 1857

Papyrus collection

Official correspondence of theStrategos ofPanopolis concerning the preparations for the forthcoming visit ofDiocletian. Panopolis, 298

Persian collection

Bahram Gur kills a dragon in India. From the "First SmallShahnama". PossiblyTabriz, c. 1300
Zal meets kingManuchihr, asking for his mercy. From the "Great Mongol Shahnameh". Tabriz, c. 1330
The rescue at sea byAmir Khalil. FromPrince Baysunghur's Rose Garden (Gulistan).Herat, 1427
Filigree leather book cover, for theFive Poems (Khamsa) ofAmir Khusrau. Herat, 1485
A party at night.Safavid miniature (possibly byMirza Ali) attached to theTimurid copy ofBustan. Tabriz, c. 1540.
Tinted drawing of a hawk attacking a heron in landscape. From anmuraqqa forMuhammad Quli Qutb Shah. Possibly Iran, c. 1550-1600
Manuscript of theFutuh al-Haramayn. Mecca, late 16th-century
Zal Rescued by theSimurgh bySadiqi Beg. Miniature from theShahnameh commissioned byShah Abbas I. ProbablyQazvin, between 1590 and 1600
Young man in a fur hat byReza Abbasi.Isfahan, between 1600 and 1625

Syriac collection

Parchment manuscript of theEphrem's Commentary on theDiatessaron and an exchange of letters betweenSeverus of Antioch andJulian of Halicarnassus. Egypt, late 5th or early 6th century and 8th or 9th century

Thai collection

Extracts from the Pali canon (Tipitaka) and Qualities of the Buddha (Mahabuddhaguna).Thailand, late 18th century
Fortune-Telling Manual (Phrommachat) with the twelve animals of theThai zodiac and their associated attributes, avatars and plants. Thailand, c. 1845
Extracts from the Pali canon (Tipitaka) andStory of Phra Malai. Thailand, late 19th century
Extracts from the Pali canon (Tipitaka) and Story of Phra Malai. Thailand, 1897

Tibetan collection

Vajrapani Mandala.Thangka.Tibet, 18th or 19th century

Turkish collection

Binding from "The Cream of Histories" (Zubdat al-tawarikh).Istanbul, 1585-1590
Description of the Prophet (Hilya al-nabi), byHâfiz Osman. Istanbul, 1691/1692

Western collection

Byzantine Gospel Book, c. 1100
'Garden of knowledge (Viridarium)', a medieval encyclopaedia byJean Reynaud. ProbablyAvignon, between 1386 and 1425
TheCoëtivy Hours by theDunois Master.Paris, 1443-1445
TheHamilton Field Book of Hours by theMaster of Walters 219.Paris, 1412–1420

Western Miscellaneous collection

Triptych with Virgin and Child and St Nicholas.Russia,c. 1800
St John the Forerunner. Russia, 19th century

Western Prints and Drawings collection

Popish Plot Playing Cards, afterFrancis Barlow.England, c. 1679
Dressing gown (Saut de lit).Fashion plate afterGerda Wegener. Paris,Journal des Dames et des Modes, 20 July 1914 (no. 78)

Others

First edition of 'The Prester John of the India' (Ho Preste Joam das Indias) byFrancisco Álvares.Lisbon, 1540
Embroidered Binding. Possibly an Italian 18th-century binding of white silkDamask. TheBook of Common Prayer and administration of the sacraments
Art Nouveau binding byCharles Meunier. Paris, 1897

References

^"Chester Beatty Story".Chester Beatty. Retrieved2 April 2023.
^Clare Pollard (1 September 2000)."The Chester Beatty Library and its East Asian Collections".Antiquity. Archived fromthe original on 17 May 2011. Retrieved21 March 2008.
^Brian Lavery (17 July 2002)."Arts Abroad; An Irish Castle for Religious Manuscripts".The New York Times. Retrieved21 March 2008.
^https://www.catholicireland.net/in-the-beginning-was-the-word-chester-beatty-library/
^Elizabeth Hutcheson (3 December 2006)."Chester Beatty Library: Magnificent Collection of Islamic and Far Eastern Artefacts". Mathaba News Network. Archived from the original on 13 May 2015. Retrieved21 March 2008.
^"Priceless Ancient Text Reassembled".BBC News. 12 July 2001. Retrieved21 March 2008.
^"Thrilling Messages from a Shared Past".The Irish Times. 6 January 2007. Retrieved21 March 2008.
^Robinson, James M. (2015).The Manichaean Codices of Medinet Madi. Cambridge: James Clarke & Company.ISBN 978-0-227-90389-6.
^Beduhn, Jason D.; Dilley, Paul; Gardner, Iain (2023).The Medinet Madi Library of Manichaean Codices at 90: Papers from the Symposium at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, 18-19 October 2019. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies. Vol. 104. Leiden: Brill.ISBN 978-90-04-53982-2.
^"Castle is Fitting Home for Beatty Treasures".The Irish Times. 3 February 2000. Retrieved21 March 2008.
^"Christianity | Explore the Collections".Chester Beatty. Retrieved25 March 2020.
^A Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts and Miniatures Archived 3 August 2019 at theWayback Machine Chester Beatty
^Ireland and Japan cooperate in Preservation of Ancient ArtworksBy Shane McCausland, Curator of the East Asian Collections Archived 29 October 2013 at theWayback Machine Ireland Embassy in Japan
^These are collection highlights according to museum site"Chester Beatty Explore".Chester Beatty. (at least those, which have image in Wikimedia commons)

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