London virtual tour with a 360 ° British Library, together with a Google map. One of the attractions of London travel guide. London virtual tour with a 360 ° British Library, together with a Google map. One of the attractions of London travel guide. British Library, London, houses the Lindisfarne Gospels, Gutenberg two Bibles, 1215 Two copies of the Magna Carta, the Egerton Gospel, the only surviving copy of the poem Beowulf and 347 sheets of the Codex Sinaiticus, the collection Stein Central Asia and the Diamond Sutra (claims to be the world's oldest printed book). And this is just the beginning, although some of the highlights, one of the largest collections of manuscripts and other objects in the world. The King's Library is also located here in a glass tower of 3 storeys. The collection itself has about 65,000 books by other pamphlets, manuscripts and maps that are collected by King George III between 1763 and 1820.