Frederic Madden attacked Antonio Panizzi, a rival keeper of these objects at the British Museum, as being “peasant-born, foreign, [and] scheming.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these objects, many of which were sold by Thomas Jefferson to restock a government institution following the burning of Washington DC.
ANSWER: books [or manuscripts of codices] (The books were sold to the Library of Congress.)
[10e] A Black woman named Belle da Costa Greene convinced J. P. Morgan to open his private library in this city as a museum. Two stone lions guard the Beaux-Arts (“boh-ZARR”) main branch of this city’s library on Fifth Avenue.
ANSWER: New York City [or NYC; accept Manhattan]
[10h] Like the Library of Congress, this British library at the University of Oxford receives a copy of every printed book published in the country.
ANSWER: Bodleian (“BOD-lee-in”) Library [accept Bodley or The Bod]
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