The ten volumes document the flora of the Mediterranean, based on the studies of John Sibthorp, Sherardian Professor of Botany at the university from 1784 until his death in 1796. Key works in 19th-century entomology from the library of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, with full-colour specimen drawings. Keble College’s greatest treasure, the 13th century Regensburg Lectionary. From 1651 to 1674 Junius again lived in the Netherlands, where he devoted himself to the study of the Old Germanic languages, culminating in the publication in 1665 of the first edition of the Gothic Bible, together with a Gothic dictionary. Brought up among the Calvinist scholars of the University of Leiden, he began his career as a theologian. Originally available on a separate website, the photographs are now part of Digital Bodleian. His work for Arundel resulted in the publication of De pictura veterum, a study of the classical arts. On returning from a momentous trip up the Nile, she set up the Egypt Exploration Fund which was instrumental in professionalising and regularising the excavation of Egyptian burial sites in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many manuscripts originated from the dissolved monasteries of Great Britain. The Collection is strongest in the 18th to early 20th centuries but also contains earlier material. Greek manuscripts collected by Francesco Barocci (1537-1604). Wellington Square. Login with Gmail. After the ceremony, we followed the newlywed couple outside for a short reception, before returning to the library for the wedding breakfast. The project was funded by The Polonsky Foundation, and was the first large-scale collaborative effort of its kind. Persian manuscripts from the collection of Sir William Ouseley (1767-1842), purchased by the Bodleian in 1843. 60. His collection comprises important medical, astrological, and alchemical manuscripts, and is also strong in heraldry, local history, and, to a lesser extent, in Middle English and 17th-century poetry. 23 and MS. Elliott 254. Sibthorp and Smith's Flora Graeca (1806-1840), illustrated by Ferdinand Bauer and often described as 'Oxford's finest botanical treasure', is considered the most splendid and expensive Flora ever produced. Sir Thomas Bodley himself was instrumental in building up the collection, and during the following century the Library acquired other Chinese works from several bequests. Spanning the range of liturgical, theological and philosophical subjects, the early print collections form an invaluable primary and secondary resource for scholars working on Christian thought, literature and history. There are currently 140 Armenian manuscripts in the Bodleian Libraries. The Bodleian’s Georgian manuscripts and archives collection holds manuscripts and archival materials from all subject areas from the 7th to the 20th century CE. Manuscripts, printed books and architectural plans from the library at The Queen's College, Oxford. Alternatively, you may have mistakenly bookmarked the web login form instead of the actual web site you wanted to bookmark or used a link created by somebody else who made the same mistake. His large library of manuscripts and printed books had particular strengths in English literature, especially Shakespeare, illuminated Books of Hours and French romances. Find out more and opt out » Digital Bodleian also includes the Ashmolean Museum’s Arthur Evans Papers, and post-1800 manuscripts from Oxford college libraries, including Christ Church's Lewis Carroll collection. The Hamilton manuscripts are believed to have belonged entirely to monasteries in Erfurt. By the mid-nineteenth century, the Bodleian’s Sanskrit manuscript holdings were described by Professor Friedrich Max Müller as the second best in Europe, surpassed only by those of the East India Company. It includes the principal University library – the Bodleian Library – which has been a legal deposit library for 400 years; as well as 30 libraries across Oxford including major research libraries and faculty, department and institute libraries. The University of Oxford's Visual Resources Centre holds a collection of 125 loose mounted photographs of the Sistine Chapel, taken by Braun and his sons, Henri and Gaston, in 1869. Over half the manuscripts Marshall bequeathed to the Bodleian are Oriental, and are not described here. Over 500 fully-digitized books printed in Europe before 1501. When Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603, her cousin King James VI of Scotland (1566-1625) inherited and united their crowns. The collection was brought to England by Henry Featherstone in 1628. Of particular note is the Foundation Deed of the college from the Archives (MC: CRC/81), Cardinal Wolsey’s beautifully decorated Gospel Lectionary from 1529 (MS Lat 223), and the early fragments of the Gospel of St Matthew (MS Gr 17). In Digital Bodleian are prints of William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), pioneer and inventor of modern photography; the Henry Taylor album, comprising a selection of prints by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879); and Prints from the Hyman Collection of British Photographs, including portraits and landscapes, as well as photographs of natural, industrial and social documentary subjects. In 1692 it purchased the collections of Dr Robert Huntington and Professor Edward Pococke. A catalogue of all Douce manuscripts and printed books by H. O. Coxe was published in 1840, and later supplemented by entries in the Summary Catalogue. Chinese, Hebrew, Persian and Western manuscripts donated by Archbishop William Laud (1573-1644/5). Franciscus Junius the Younger (1591-1677) was born in Heidelberg. The basis of the library and archive collection was formed from a donation of 800 volumes sent by Waynflete himself, but this collection has naturally expanded substantially throughout the subsequent centuries. The series of fresco reconstruction drawings, which reveal different stages and versions of reconstruction also have a crucial role in revealing information about the original state of the frescoes lost or obscured in the published reconstructions. The antiquarian collection is considerable, and includes the ca. Accessibility Statement - Over 800 games, playbills, posters, writing blanks and more from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. Today, the college libraries and archive house a collection of around 20,000 rare books and several hundred manuscripts. Manuscripts collected by Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665), given to the Bodleian in 1634-9. Over fifty Persian manuscripts, including richly decorated works by Jāmī, Firdawsī and ‘Umar Khayyām. If you have not received your Pick-Up Time within 3 days of departure, please contact our Sales Team on 01827 849700 Bodleian Libraries Oxford LibGuides SOLO - Search Oxford Libraries Online (Classic) Signing on Search this Guide ... Login to LibApps. Libraries and Oxford college libraries. These images meticulously surveyed the frescoes decorating the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. We will soon be asking you to log in to Space Finder using your single sign-on (SSO) in … The name is thought to originate from a 'brazen nose' - a bronze door knocker in the shape of a nose. Rare printed books produced after the 15th century, including Shakespeare's First Folio. In 2018, the College digitized the 14th century Psalter of Humphrey de Bohun, which served as the prayer book to two English Queens, Elizabeth of York and Katherine of Aragon. 18th and 19th century board games, writing blanks and other items printed for children's entertainment and education from the Bodleian's John Johnson Collection, Harding Collection and Opie Collection. John Selden (1584-1654) matriculated at Oxford from Hart Hall in 1600, but left the University without a degree. Subjects represented in the games and writing blanks include arithmetic, art, astronomy, geography, history, literature, spelling, and religion. The Bodleian holds one of the world’s largest and most wide-ranging collections of archives and manuscripts. Over the past five years, a major project has been to digitise and make accessible our College treasure, the hyper-illustrated Regensburg Lectionary, which is available here. Click here to login. A small number of these have been digitized to date, including 'Tradescant’s Orchard’, a set of 17th century watercolours of garden fruits; both volumes of John Aubrey's Monumenta Britannica; and Jane Austen's Volume the First. He finally returned to England and spent his last years in Oxford. The Library’s founder, Thomas Bodley, took a personal interest in Hebrew manuscripts, and after his death, the Library continued to enrich the Hebrew collections. To date, this project has digitized over 1,000 items, including editions of popular songs from the Southern Min region; Daoist manuscripts of the Yao people in northern Thailand; Democracy Wall publications, 1978-1980, and 19th century protestant missionary texts. It is situated in part of the Grade II*-listed St Cross Building on St Cross Road in the parish of Holywell, on the corner of Manor Road. Sometimes the record of a culture is made by its conqueror. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in Britain is second in size only to the British Library with over 11 million items. It is part of Oxford University, the Bodleian Libraries and is also the library of the Faculty of Law. Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), natural philosopher and courtier, was bequeathed in 1632 the scientific and historical manuscripts of Thomas Allen, his tutor at Gloucester Hall, Oxford. The Bodleian Libraries form the largest UK university library system, with more than 13 million printed items, 80,000 e-journals and outstanding special collections. The 19th and early 20th centuries brought further opportunities for acquisitions, notably of books belonging to Francis Douce and Matteo Luigi Canonici. Jumbo the childrens friend, Bodleian Library Games 25 (1), Chinese Maps, Manuscripts and Printed Books, Adolphe Braun Photographs of the Sistine Chapel Frescoes, Greek, Hebrew and Early Printing: A Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Illumination (from 35mm), Political Prints from the Curzon Collection, Educational Ephemera: Writing Blanks and Children’s Games, Key Works of Geological Literature, 1600-1900, Manuscripts from German-Speaking Lands: A Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project, Bodleian Library MS. Canon. After Marjory's early death in 1909, the Marjory Wardrop Fund was founded for the encouragement of Georgian studies and from 1910, through this fund, the Bodleian became the beneficiary of all Marjory Wardrop's papers, books and manuscripts .They were supplemented by further donations from Sir Oliver until his death in 1948 and two more recent donations from Sir Oliver's descendants in 2017 and 2018. Other collections include Lewis Carroll materials, the extensive archives of Archbishop William Wake, second world war documents related to Winston Churchill and Viscount Portal, and the huge F.W. BDLSS (Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services) is a Bodleian department facilitating the Bodleian Library’s digital portfolio. The Bodleian Library houses the largest collection of western incunabula - books printed with movable metal type up to the end of 1500 - in a university library, amounting to more than 5,600 editions in 6,755 copies. Around 50 Persian items entered the Library in 1714 with the collections of Narcissus Marsh, but it was with the acquisition of the collections of Sir William and Sir Gore Ouseley, who had travelled widely in the east and were part of a diplomatic mission to the Qajar court in Iran, that the Persian collections reached their zenith. Over 500 portraits, including easel paintings, sculptured works, drawings, photographs, and prints. Complete facsimiles of publications from the early-19th-century expeditions to Egypt by Champollion and Rosellini. Today, the Library has c.185,000 volumes, about a third of which were printed before 1800, as well as collections of archives relating to the College's estates and history, manuscripts dating from the 11th to the 20th century - and the architectural drawings digitized here, which include designs by Christopher Wren for St Paul's Cathedral. 133, the extraordinary 15th-century astrological compilation made in Jalāyirid Baghdad known as Kitāb al-Bulhān; and MS. Arab. A small number of images are derived from material in the Oxford University Archives. The Bodleian acquired its first Persian manuscripts in 1602, the year it opened. Its Collection mainly consists of Arts subjects, and it is especially strong in Modern Catholic Theology, Integral Ecology, and Jesuit studies. This collection of digital images includes a very small sample of some of our great printed treasures, including works by William Shakespeare and William Blake; the Bay Psalm Book (the first book printed in British North America); and examples of less well known titles. Over 4,000 digitized items from the Bodleian Libraries' collections of piano music intended for the amateur market in mid-Victorian Britain. Brasenose College was founded in 1509 by William Smyth, Bishop of Lincoln, and Sir Richard Sutton, a lawyer and the first lay founder of a college in Oxford or Cambridge. Guided Tour of the Bodleian Library, free time in Oxford, plus return coach travel from Staffordshire. A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges. b. Roliston's Travelling Adventures.' Please contact the department directly to check current arrangements. Digitized highlights include MS. Marsh 294, a copy of a 16th century Arabic portolan chart, and the Drink map of Oxford, an 1883 map created by the Temperance Union for Oxfordshire, which showed it was possible to buy a drink in every 22nd building in Oxford. Interest in Armenian culture and manuscripts goes back to the times of the foundation of the Bodleian Libraries with the first Armenian manuscripts entering the collection through the benefaction from Archbishop Laud (1573-1645). The manuscripts are divided into four series: Arch. Representing four centuries of collecting and 1,000 years of Jewish history, this book brings together extraordinary Hebrew manuscripts and rare books from the Bodleian Library and Oxford colleges. Beginning in 1995, the project photographed almost ninety manuscripts written between the ninth and nineteenth centuries. … The modern holdings (1801-) provide excellent sources for British political, diplomatic, social and economic history; the politics, economics and social development of African and Commonwealth countries during the colonial and post-colonial period; international development and international relations; British literature; science and medicine; and art history and visual culture. Public Affairs Directorate. Login with Facebook Substantial additions of Arabic material were soon made with the collections of scholars such as Archbishop William Laud, Edward Pococke and Robert Huntington. A project in the mid-2000s digitized a full set of the Flora Graeca, together with Bauer's original drawings and watercolours, on which the published engravings were based. Korean Treasures from Bodleian Library Publishing. At that time he was Chancellor of Oxford University, and his bequest of Napoleon-related books and prints, including the political cartoons, came to the library in 1926. He always hoped that the Jesuits would be restored, and intended in that case to make them his heir, but eventually died at Treviso without making a will. The requested page is not currently available due to visibility settings. Somerville was founded in 1879 as a women’s college. It consists of the archaeological records and papers of Sir Arthur Evans (Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, 1884-1908), which he bequeathed to the Museum upon his death in 1941. The Bodleian Library's Chinese collections date back to the earliest period of the Library’s history. Together, the Libraries hold more than 12 million printed items, over 80,000 e-journals and outstanding special collections including rare books and manuscripts, classi… He and his agents assembled around 320 manuscripts from Würzburg Cathedral, the Mainz Charterhouse, and Eberbach Abbey. Digitized items include pages from MS. OR BROWSE BY. Many of the most interesting items in the Magdalen collection are available to view in Digital Bodleian. Key dates for these buildings are as follows: Thursday 25 August The Bodleian boasts an extraordinary selection of photographic materials across its extensive archives and printed book collections. F. 4. Arm. Medieval and early modern manuscripts and papers donated to the Bodleian by antiquary Elias Ashmole (1617-1692). It also includes some later manuscripts, such as a five-volume set of Fons memorabilium uniuersi, a humanist encyclopedia from the fifteenth century (Balliol College MSS. He began his career as a solicitor, but in 1644 entered the service of the Crown as a commissioner of excise. Books and manuscripts collected by Francis Douce (1757-1834) and bequeathed to the Bodleian, including books of hours, French romances, and early English literature. Consisting of approximately 9,000 manuscripts, the Bodleian Libraries house the largest known collection of Sanskrit and Prakrit manuscripts outside of the Indian sub-continent. We are grateful to them all, and hope that you will enjoy becoming part of the story of the First Folio. Between 2012 and 2017, the Bodleian Libraries and the Vatican Library collaborated to digitize 1.5 million images of manuscripts and early printed books. PEOPLE. public.affairs@admin.ox.ac.uk 1, an 11th century autograph manuscript by Giorgi Prokhore, the founder of the Holy Cross Monastery in Jerusalem, which contains important hagiographic texts and other significant ecclesiastical texts; and MS. Wardrop d. 17 and MS. Wardrop d. 27, two 17th century copies of the ‘The Knight in the Panther's Skin’, Vepʿxistqaosani (ვეფხისტყაოსანი), that are listed in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register. Subjects: Information and Research Skills, Searching the Libraries (catalogues and finding aids) In 2018 work was undertaken to research and digitize the photographs. Included are bequests of Early Printed Books and manuscripts, as well as the personal library of John Keble. Bodleian Libraries. The Bodleian Library was a breath-taking venue, steeped in history and with a stunning vaulted ceiling which allowed for plenty of light. The College has digitized part of a French prose apocalypse decorated with 68 miniatures; Arnold Fairbairns' magnificent 1908 photographic survey of Lincoln College buildings and estates; and the core College administrative records from 1472-1640 and 1577-1739. https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/accessibility, Google Analytics - Bodleian Libraries use Google Analytics cookies on this web site. Left unchecked, this can cause errors on some browsers or result in you returning to the web site you tried to leave, so this page is presented instead. The filmstrips, illustrating a particular manuscript or a particular theme, were compiled and published by the Library from the 1960s onwards, and were accompanied by handlists which form the basis of the descriptions. Chinese, Hebrew, Persian and western manuscripts donated by the late thirteenth-century, monolingual Oxford,... 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