Editing Chester Beatty Library (section)

{{short description|Archive in Dublin, Ireland}}
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{{Infobox museum
| name            = Chester Beatty
| logo            = CB Stacked Logo RGB Jpeg - Low Resolution.jpg
| image           = Exterior of the Chester Beatty, Dublin, Ireland.jpg
| caption         = Entrance of the Chester Beatty, Dublin, Ireland
| mapframe        = yes
| mapframe-caption = Interactive fullscreen map
| mapframe-zoom   = 13
| mapframe-marker = museum
| mapframe-wikidata = yes
| coordinates     = {{WikidataCoord|display=it}}
| former_name     = Chester Beatty Library
| established     = 1953
| location        = [[Dublin Castle]], Dublin
| type            = Art Museum, library, Visitor Attraction
| collections     = The Chester Beatty is Ireland’s leading museum of world cultures, caring for and sharing an extraordinary collection of manuscripts, rare books, miniature paintings and other decorative objects that are of world importance.  

With collections from Europe, the Middle East and across Asia, the role of the museum is unique in Ireland’s cultural landscape.
| collection_size = approx 25,000
| visitors        = 530,000 (2024)
| founder         = [[Sir Alfred Chester Beatty]]
| publictransit   = Luas, Dublin Bus, DART
| website         = [https://chesterbeatty.ie chesterbeatty.ie]
}}

The '''Chester Beatty Library''', now known as the '''Chester Beatty''', is a museum and library in [[Dublin]]. It was established in Ireland in 1953,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://chesterbeatty.ie/about/chester-beatty-story/|title=Chester Beatty Story|website=Chester Beatty|access-date=2 April 2023}}</ref> to house the collections of mining magnate, Sir [[Alfred Chester Beatty]].<ref name="antiq">{{Cite web|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-65802699.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517062045/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-65802699.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 May 2011|title=The Chester Beatty Library and its East Asian Collections|access-date=21 March 2008|date=1 September 2000|author=Clare Pollard|work=Antiquity}}</ref> The present museum, on the grounds of [[Dublin Castle]], opened on 7 February 2000, the 125th anniversary of Beatty's birth and was named [[European Museum of the Year Award|European Museum of the Year]] in 2002.<ref name="artsab">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/17/books/arts-abroad-an-irish-castle-for-religious-manuscripts.html|title=Arts Abroad; An Irish Castle for Religious Manuscripts|access-date=21 March 2008|date=17 July 2002|author=Brian Lavery|work=The New York Times}}</ref>

The Chester Beatty is one of the premier sources for scholarship in both the Old and New Testaments and is home to one of the most significant collections of Western, [[Islamic]] and East & South East Asian artefacts.<ref name="math">{{Cite web|url=http://mathaba.net/news/?x=546762|title=Chester Beatty Library: Magnificent Collection of Islamic and Far Eastern Artefacts|access-date=21 March 2008|publisher=Mathaba News Network|date=3 December 2006|author=Elizabeth Hutcheson|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150513145054/http://mathaba.net/news/?x=546762|archive-date=13 May 2015}}</ref> The museum also offers numerous temporary exhibitions, many of which include works of art on loan from foreign institutions and collections. The museum contains a number of priceless objects, including one of the surviving volumes of the first illustrated ''[[Siyer-i Nebi|Life of the Prophet]]'' and the ''[[Gospel of Mani]]'', one of the last surviving [[Manichaean scripture]]s.<ref name="bbcmani">{{Cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/entertainment/1435490.stm|title=Priceless Ancient Text Reassembled|access-date=21 March 2008|work=BBC News|date=12 July 2001 }}</ref><ref name="thrillm">{{Cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2007/0106/1168032999621.html|title=Thrilling Messages from a Shared Past|access-date=21 March 2008|date=6 January 2007|newspaper=The Irish Times}}</ref> Many manuscripts from the [[Medinet Madi library]] are currently held at the Chester Beatty Library.<ref name="Robinson 2015">{{cite book | last=Robinson | first=James M. | title=The Manichaean Codices of Medinet Madi | location=Cambridge | publisher=James Clarke & Company | date=2015 | isbn=978-0-227-90389-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last1=Beduhn | first1=Jason D. | last2=Dilley | first2=Paul | last3=Gardner | first3=Iain | title=The Medinet Madi Library of Manichaean Codices at 90: Papers from the Symposium at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, 18-19 October 2019  | publisher=Brill | location=Leiden | date=2023 | isbn=978-90-04-53982-2 | url=https://brill.com/display/title/64380 | series=Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies | volume=104}}</ref>