I have written in several places and at relatively great length of my admiration for Jonathan Sumption. (This is a scholarly admiration, and I have no opinion to publish here on his work as a silk.) I think this admiration has just been upgraded to green envy, on reading that he has a library of 7,000 medieval history books.
The provenance of that figure seems to be this Guardian profile from 10 years ago. In which case one would suspect that there are now another 1000 or so books on the shelf. If they are all on medieval history then it sounds like a magnificent collection indeed.
