University of Sydney Library

"Fisher Library" redirects here. For the library in the University of Toronto, see Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.

The University of Sydney Library is the library system of the University of Sydney. It comprises eight locations across several campuses of the university. Its largest library, Fisher Library, is named after Thomas Fisher, an early benefactor.

Among the collection are many rare items such as one of the two extant copies of the Gospel of Barnabas, and an annotated first edition of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton.[1] In 2017, a member of staff discovered an original Giorgione sketch in Rare Books and Special Collections with a definitive date and cause of death for Giorgione, information that had been lost for over 500 years in a 1497 edition of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.[2]

  1. ^ "Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica". The University of Sydney Library Catalogue. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  2. ^ Slattery, Luke (16 February 2019). "Divine discovery: Renaissance art found by Sydney University librarian". The Australian. Retrieved 22 February 2019.