The Chester Beatty Library is in which city?
Chester Beatty Library of the Chester Beatty Library". Often on display is the "Ibn al-Bawwab" Qur'an, copied by one of the greatest medieval Islamic calligraphers. 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 good Japanese arts, including a pair of long picture-scrolls painted in the 17th century by Kanō Sansetsu. Chester Beatty Library The Chester Beatty Library was established in Dublin, Ireland in 1950, to house the collections of mining magnate, Sir Alfred Chester Beatty. The present
Chester Beatty Library one of the most extensive in the world and includes almost the entire corpus of Ancient Egyptian Love Songs. The Islamic Collection is divided between the Arabic, 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, called "Muraqqa'", are housed in the Chester Beatty Library, with important paintings from the "Late Shah Jahan Album" and the "Minto Album". The albums were the subject of an exhibition and publication by the Islamic curator, Dr Elaine Wright, "Muraqqa': Imperial Albums