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The library in the long gallery at Blickling Hall, Norfolk. It is a very rare and important collection, containing about 12,500 books and manuscripts dating from the 11th to the 19th century. One of its famous holdings is the Blickling Homilies, a very early example of English vernacular writing. It also contains the third atlas ever printed (from 1482) and very early Bibles and theological texts.
