what those libraries were in The Toast

I thoroughly enjoyed “How To Decorate Your Dream Library” by Amy Collier for The Toast. But because I am me, I was made insane by the lack of captions identifying any of the libraries pictured, so I went ahead and worked my way through them. Go read the article, laugh heartily, and then come back to find out the libraries and photography credits.

(A side note: How hard is it, really, to include this information in the original article? Most of the licensing on these images is some version of Creative Commons Attribution. But where’s the attribution in The Toast? It’s bad form. If I were a friend or family member of Jorge Royan, who took a slew of these and whose work is stunning, or any of the others, I’d be pretty pissed that I made my work available under an open license and that places couldn’t be bothered with the simply task of crediting me.)

(A second side note: How hard was it to identify these on my own? Pretty easy, between Tin Eye and Google Image Search. They’re all on Wikimedia Commons, which is a great place. But my ease in finding them doesn’t excuse the problem of not crediting the photographers who took them.)

Update January 6, 2016: It looks like the author or an editor of the post went through and added “via” links under each photo that takes users to the relevant wikimedia pages that I provide below. Well, to the pages in some cases; in other cases, it takes you to the image file which doesn’t actually provide any information and doesn’t actually count as proper attribution. </cranky>

1) Strahov Monastery Library, Prague, Czech Republic

2) Globe Museum, Vienna, Austria

3) Library of the Catholic Seminary in Budapest, former monastery of the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit (n.b.: I don’t know anything about this and I actually have work to do instead of this, so no link, I’m sorry! If you can provide one in the comments, I’ll gladly update.)

4) Library of the Catholic Seminary in Budapest, former monastery of the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit

5) Joanina Library, Coimbra University, Portugal

Coimbra-Library1 — By PhR61 (Portugal 2000 0074) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

6) Strahov Monastery Theological Hall, Prague, Czech Republic

7) Library of the Catholic Seminary in Budapest, former monastery of the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit

8) Norwiegen Maritime Museum, Oslo, Norway

9) Melk Abbey Library, Austria

10) Mafra National Palace Library, Portugal

11) Het Loo Palace Library, Apeldoorn, Netherlands

12) Nová Říše Monastery Library, Czech Republic
(nb: the photo used in The Toast appears to be one taken from this blog post by Jeanice Brooks, but since it’s not clear to me what sort of license that was published under, and I try to be a stickler, I’m using a photo of the same scene from Wikimedia Commons)