Next door to the museum, the BUB library is located. There were several areas of note. The card catalogue area had the most beautifully painted walls and ceilings to augment the cabinet after cabinet of cards. There the story of Andreo Caronti was told. He took it upon himself to manually correct the catalogue system of the collection. He worked on this from 1866 to 1878. This task would be nearly impossible for a single person today as the library as 1,250,000 volumes and 400 pieces of art and 900 Japanese manuscripts. In 1755, the Pope Benedict XIV decreed that every book that was printed in Bologna had to provide a copy to the library and the collection really grew. Another place of note was the grand reading room. It was huge and decorated in rich wooden tones with wooden inlay in the tables and on the shelves. We then headed over to the Physics Building where they had a small collection of physics instruments.
Row after row of books
Some special ones were on display
A map on an animal skin
Scientific instruments
So old they are falling apart
Looking over the world
We entered a vault door and this was the logo
The stacks begin
Lauro for Laura, Lesla for Leslie and Lepe for Leip
This room is so beautiful
Monk with book
The stairway is an art gallery
Many sets of stairs
Spacious hallways
A fancy incense burner and its case
More great manuscripts
The grand hall
We were amazed at this place
Behind the wire mesh
Big gates
Royal guards
Wood inlay
Palentology
The Latin quarter
This is one impressive reading room
A sale outside
Outside the Physics Building
Very Italian
Various old style weights and measures
The tops are teardrop shaped, very elegant
I think these were volumes of gas
An odd drum thrown in for good measure
Newton's balls, he was never the same afterwards
A Fresnel lens
An old bellows camera
A light bar for optical experiments
The rest of the collection
Hand cranked electricity
We have reached the conclusion of the collection
Outside the ground was littered with champagne corks and glitter. This must be the graduation celebration place
Corks!
It has been 2 years and 341 days since we began our Migration
