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The Inner Temple Library is a private law library in Central London, England, serving barristers, judges, and students on the Bar Professional Training Course. Its parent body is the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, one of the four Inns of Court. Its law collections cover the legal systems of the British Isles (England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) and also Commonwealth countries. There are, in addition, extensive non-law collections covering such subjects as history, topography, biography and heraldry, and an important collection of legal and historical manuscripts. ==History== The Library is first mentioned in 1440,〔(''Inner Temple Papers'' ), p. 234, Taylor & Francis, 1948, MacKinnon, Sir Frank Douglas, accessed 25 November 2009〕 then in the Inn’s records in 1506. The Library refused to accept John Selden's manuscripts in 1654, most likely because the size of the collection would have necessitated a new building, but it has been described as "the greatest loss which the Library of the Inner Temple ever sustained".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Library History )〕 One building burned down in the Great Fire of 1666, and in 1678 another was blown up to stop a fire from spreading in the Temple.〔("The libraries of London," Edition 2 ), Irwin, Raymond, and Staveley, Ronald, Library Association, 1964, accessed 25, November 2009〕 In 1707 the Inner Temple was offered the Petyt Manuscripts (William Petyt had been Keeper of the Records in the Tower, and a well-known writer of constitutional law) and a sum of £150 to build a new Library, which was completed in 1709 and consisted of three rooms. A Librarian was appointed immediately, and the practice continues to this day.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Library History – 18th century )〕 The library building before World War II was a Gothic building built in 1827-8 by Sir Robert Smirke,〔(''London illustrated, 1604–1851: a survey and index of topographical books and their plates'' ), Adams, Bernard, Library Association, 1983, ISBN 0-85365-734-3, ISBN 978-0-85365-734-7, accessed 25 November 2009〕 contained about 60,000 volumes, and formed part of a larger building.〔(''The Scottish law review and Sheriff Court reports'' ), Volume 15, Scotland. Sheriff Courts, William Hodge and Co., 1899, accessed 25 November 2009〕 Modifications were made in 1867, 1872, and 1882 which extended the Library to eight rooms〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Library History – 19th century )〕 In 1886, J.E.L. Pickering, Librarian, read a paper at the Library Association monthly meeting on a 5-month trial at the Library, entitled "The Electric Light as Applied to the Lighting of the Inner Temple Law Library".〔("The Electric Light as Applied to the Lighting of the Inner Temple Law Library" ), ''The Library chronicle'', Pickering, J.E.L., Volume 3, p. 173, Library Association, Editor Ernest Chester Thomas, 1886〕 The building was destroyed during the Second World War: several thousand volumes of printed books (but none of the manuscripts) were lost.〔("Huge Bombs Fall; Nazis Batter Center of City—Use New Routes in 13th Night of Siege; More Landmarks Struck: British Museum, Inner Temple and Home Office Hit, but Vital Plants Carry On" ) Daniell, Raymond, ''The New York Times'', 20 September 1940, accessed 25 November 2009〕〔("Havoc in "The City"; Ancient Guildhall and Historic Churches Are Wreckedl Fire Bombs Spread Ruin; British Charge a 'Deliberate' Nazi Attempt to Destroy Heart of the Capital Censorship Restrictions Lifted Old Bailey Another Victim; Firemen Killed and Injured; Raid Held Invasion Prelude; Reprisai Clamor Expected; Only One Raider During Day" ) The New York Times, 31 December 1940, accessed 25 November 2009〕〔("London Letter" ) 26 A.B.A. J. 935 (10 October 1940), accessed 25, November 2009〕 The destroyed books were mostly replaced, either by gift or purchase, over the next 30 years or so. The present building was completed in 1958 to the design of T.W. Sutcliffe, and is in the style of the eighteenth century. It is on two floors above the private rooms of the benchers, and its natural, unstained English oak wood-panelled L-shape roughly matches that of the prior building. The history of the Library is discussed in some detail in the introduction to J. Conway Davies's ''Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple'' (Oxford, 1972). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Inner Temple Library」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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