Donation to the Bodleian Library by Julian Blackwell

Thanks to a £5m donation to the Bodleian Library by Julian Blackwell, president of the Blackwell's academic bookshop chain, a rare collection of books and artefacts will be open to the public. Included in this permanent public display will be original manuscripts from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Also amongst the new exhibits will be the earliest complete book written in the English language, Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care, one of only eight Gutenberg Bibles, four of the original copies of the Magna Carta written in the 13th Century and original hand-written texts of many popular classics.