 The Fellows ' Library contains bookcases decorated with strapwork dating from about 1628 , which were used in an earlier library in the college . Hardy 's opinion was that , " if only it had an open timber roof instead of the plain ceiling , it would be one of the most picturesque College Libraries " . Another author said ( in 1914 , after the provision of a library for undergraduates elsewhere in the quadrangle ) that it was " one of the most charming of Oxford libraries , and one of the least frequented " . It holds 11 @,@ 000 antiquarian printed books and houses many of the college 's rare texts , including a Greek bible dating from 1545 and signed by Philipp Melanchthon and others , much of the library of the scholar and philosopher Lord Herbert of Cherbury and 17th @-@ century volumes by Robert Boyle and Sir Isaac Newton . 
