Editing University of Sydney Library (section)

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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]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica|url=http://opac.library.usyd.edu.au/record=b3761126~S4|publisher=The University of Sydney Library Catalogue|access-date=3 October 2013}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Slattery |first1=Luke |title=Divine discovery: Renaissance art found by Sydney University librarian |date=16 February 2019 |url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/visual-arts/divine-discovery-renaissance-art-found-by-sydney-university-librarian/news-story/77420fce50252209f1c4daf877bea896?nk=56239546460dc1c65cb39d13c7303445-1550800030&login=1 |access-date=22 February 2019 |publisher=The Australian}}</ref>