Grand Library of Menaphos

The Grand Library of Menaphos is located underneath the Golden Palace in the Imperial district of Menaphos. The entrance to it can be found just south of the entrance to the Golden Palace itself. The library is divided into four levels, the top floor, the second level, the third level, and the bottom level.

A sundial is located in the centre of the library on the lowest level, which was used for completing the Golden Path Challenge. There are bookshelves scattered around the library.

A competition was held for players to write their own stories which have been added in game after the initial update on 3 July 2017.

It is maintained by Kohnen the librarian. During and after Our Man in the North, Aristarchus can also be found inside the library near the entrance, opposite of Kohnen.

Books

Name	Location within the Library
	Bookcase from corner	Wall	Closest corner	Level
Aragnya's Tale	Third	Southern	South-eastern	Bottom
Architect's Journal	Sixth	Southern	South-western	Top
The Courtship of Elidinis	Third	Northern	North-western	Second
The Diary of Dawnsu	First	Northern	North-western	Top
Embalmer's Log	Second	Eastern	South-eastern	Second
File Under: Low Priority	First	Northern	North-eastern	Bottom
From Nardah, With Love	Second	Eastern	North-eastern	Bottom
A Guide to Perfect Tea	Third	Western	North-western	Top
Klenter's Big Book of Rhymes	First	Western	North-western	Bottom
Poetic Mena	Third (central)	Western	Both corners	Bottom
The Priestess	First (directly west of the top floor stairs)	Southern	South-western	Second
The Red Devil	First (directly north of the second level stairs)	Western	North-western	Third
Saa Akila's Journal	Second	Western	South-western	Top
The Story of Phodopis	Third (directly north of the second level stairs)	Eastern	North-eastern	Third
Tefnut, Disciple of Amascut	Second (directly north of Kohnen the librarian)	Eastern	North-eastern	Top
To Err is Divine	First	Eastern	South-eastern	Third
Tumeken and the Wind	First	Eastern	North-eastern	Second
Ullek Woodworker Transcript	First	Western	South-western	Second
The Unforgiving Desert	First	Western	North-western	Third
The Unnumbered Faithful	Second	Southern	South-western	Third

Gallery

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  The huge library

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  One of the library's walls

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  Concept art of the library

Trivia

The design of the library is reminiscent of the Norrington Room in Heffers (now Blackwells) bookshop in Cambridge, the English city where Jagex is based.

Update history

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• ninja 12 October 2020 (Update):
  • The Menaphos Grand Library master clue step and hidey-hole has been moved just outside the main door to avoid an issue where double agents could spawn in an un-attackable state.

• ninja 23 October 2017 (Update):
  • The confirmation dialogue when attempting to enter or leave the Grand library of Menaphos has been removed.

• patch 10 July 2017 (Update):
  • A number of typos in the Grand Library books have been fixed.