Oxford’s Bodleian grew from 2,000 to 23,000 volumes within two decades.

Evidence

By June 1600 the hall was fitted out with oak bookcases with integral reading desks. On 8 November 1602, the library was inaugurated with a collection of over 2,000 volumes. By 1605, when the first published catalogue of the collection appeared, it had 5,600 volumes; fifteen years later the collection had quadrupled in size, to 23,000. — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 319

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 319