My favourite exhibits included pages from the Rawlinson Necromantic Manuscript (I kid you not); Alan Garner's beautifully handwritten manuscripts; Tolkein's handmade facsimile of the Book of Marzarbul ('they're coming!'); and a medieval book of divination, the Prognostics of King Socrates, which included a pair of interlocked leather cogs, called a volvelle, used to generate random numbers.
Oh, there's some J. K. Rowling 'abilia too, if such things float your boat. On till September, and well worth the trip to Oxford.
Why, oh why, is the UK so annoyingly far from Australia?!!!
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