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Published: 14 November 2013
...Figure 9.1 Catalogus librorum bibliothecae publicae (1605) [Bodl., Antiq.e.E.1605.2, 199 x 142mm] This chapter surveys the works printed by the press for the University of Oxford. The book describes the published catalogues of the Bodleian Library and other collections in Oxford...
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Lucretius in the Early Modern Period: Texts and Contexts
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David Butterfield
Published: 01 October 2015
..., Obert van Giffen, and Thomas Creech. Close attention is paid to particular copies in the Bodleian Library which illustrate developments in reading and interpretation. Lucretius Titus Lucretius Carus Bodleian Library Oxford Lactantius mortalism Vossius Isaac Bentley Richard Evelyn John Bracciolini...
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Amateur Book Production and the Miscellany in Late Medieval East Anglia: Tanner 407 and Beinecke 365
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Carol M. Meale
Published: 11 June 2015
...The manuscripts discussed here, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner MS 407 and New Haven, Yale University Library, Beinecke 365, were produced roughly contemporaneously and within a relatively small geographical area. Tanner is the work of one man, Robert Reynes of Acle, and is noted...
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Published: 11 May 2003
... during the summer of 1847. Some of Mendelssohn's drawings, including most of his surviving sketchbooks dating from 1822 to 1847, can be found at the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford. Düsseldorf FMB's painting lessons Mendelssohn Bartholdy Felix Jacob Ludwig physical appearance Schirmer...
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Published: 19 October 2023
... 1680s was tempered. It qualifies and, to a degree, repudiates, the prevailing view that Oxford was a Tory bastion unable to adapt to the late Stuart and early Hanoverian order. Scholarship in history and the classics flourished; the Bodleian Library received visitors from across Europe; the University...
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Manuscripts of the Oxford Collection
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Richard Sharpe
Published: 11 April 1991
.... de Saygir 242 Sci Senani ep. 245 See Ite virginis 248 Sci Caingini ab. 252 Sci Molua Droma Snecta 254 Sci Boecii ep. et conf. 256 The Oxford collection is preserved in two parchment manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B. 485 (R) and MS...
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Bringing Maimonides to Oxford: Edward Pococke, the Mishnah, and the Porta Mosis
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Benjamin Williams
Published: 26 May 2022
... a manuscript now known to have been annotated by Maimonides himself (Bodleian Library, MS Poc. 295). This chapter considers how Pococke studied these texts and whether he realized that he owned part of Maimonides’ working copy. An analysis of Pococke’s annotated books and published works shows that he acquired...
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Introduction
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ANTHONY SELDON and STUART BALL
Published: 13 October 1994
... twentieth century Bodleian Library political institution The Conservative Party has dominated British politics to such an extent during the twentieth century that it is likely to become known as the ‘Conservative century’. Either standing alone or as the most powerful element in a coalition, the party...
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‘A Gifte of good Moment’ A New History of the Stationers’ Benevolence to the Bodleian Library, 1610 to 1616
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Tara L. Lyons
Published: 18 September 2023
...This essay offers a new assessment of the London Stationers’ Company and their 1610 agreement with the Bodleian Library. Manuscript documents in Bodleian Library Records show that London publishers were a vital part of building the Oxford library’s holdings through their many ‘gifts’ of books...
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‘My Skyn To Turne’: Beholding the Series in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 53
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David Watt
Published: 15 August 2013
... Cloud of Unknowing Corinthians Epistle to the Jonathas moralization Pisa Council of Basle Council of Connolly Margaret Konstanz Council of Strohm Paul Gayk Shannon Hagiography Lady Picard John? Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 53 Regiment of Princes Textual Mirrors Nicholas Love...
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Bodleian Library MS Eng. Poet. d.49
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Diane Purkiss
Published: 14 March 2019
...Figure 40.1. The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, MS Eng. Poet. d.49, 157. Figure 40.2. The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, MS Eng. Poet. d.49, 63. Figure 40.3. The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, MS Eng. Poet. d.49, 150–1. Figure 40.4. The Bodleian Library...
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Maps, Calendars, and Diagrams: Space and Time in Seventeenth-Century Maritime East Asia
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Robert Batchelor
Published: 29 February 2016
... to the seventeenth-century collection of Chinese materials in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Each of these artifacts offers evidence of overseas Chinese efforts to establish a new kind of authority over time and space that was distinct from or supplemental to the imperial center. They also provide a glimpse...
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Description of Egypt
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Jason Thompson
Published: 15 May 2010
... Christianity ghawazi Muhammad Bey Deftardar women Egyptian Jews of Cairo nizam gadid sabils Christie's Dahshur pyramids of Gainsborough Thomas Memphis Saqqara Description of Egypt Edward William Lane manuscript Bodleian Library illustrations Thebes Lane wrote the first draft of his book...
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Introduction
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G. J. TOMMER
Published: 28 March 1996
... element in the narrative. At this period, only the libraries of two universities are significant, those of Cambridge and Oxford. The role of Edward Pococke, a central figure at the Bodleian Library, is also explained. Netherlands Arabic studies in Bernard Edward correspondence Colomesius works...
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The Early Career of Pococke
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G. J. TOMMER
Published: 28 March 1996
...This chapter discusses the early career of Edward Pococke. Before his intensive study of Arabic language and literature, Pococke began to assemble the collection of manuscripts, which, after his death, became one of the chief ornaments of the Bodleian Library. Pococke was also engaged in actually...
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Oriental Studies
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Mordechai Feingold
Published: 26 June 1997
... resources of the Bodleian Library. The principal incentive for the study of Hebrew and Arabic was their application to scripture and their contribution towards the bolstering of Christianity. Bodleian Library Burnet Gilbert bishop of Salisbury Gibbon Edward Greek Latin oriental studies Pococke Edward...
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Libraries, Books, and Printing
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I. G. Philip and Paul Morgan
Published: 26 June 1997
...The Bodleian Library, founded and endowed by Sir Thomas Bodley at the opening of the 17th century, was the third library of Oxford University. The first comprised manuscripts bequeathed to the university early in the 14th century by Thomas Cobham, bishop of Worcester, while the second library...
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Libraries
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Giles Barber
Published: 07 April 1994
...18.1 Queuing for Professor Wind's lecture on Picasso, 1957 This chapter examines the history of the Bodleian Library during the period from 1914 to 1970. The head librarian post was occupied by E. W. B. Nicholson from 1882 to 1912, Falconer Madan from 1912 to 1919, Arthur Ernest Cowley from 1919...
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Editor’s Introduction
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Ronald Syme
Published: 10 November 2016
...This Introduction provides an overview of Ronald Syme’s Archive at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. It focuses predominantly on of the papers included in this volume, and aims to provide an assessment of their place within Syme’s scholarly production. Attention is also given to some unpublished...
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Mary Clapinson, A Brief History of the Bodleian Library, Revised Edition. Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2020. 264 pages.
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Robin Darwall Smith
Published: 19 November 2021
...Robin Darwall Smith, Mary Clapinson, A Brief History of the Bodleian Library, Revised Edition. In: History of Universities XXXIV/2 . Edited by: Mordechai Feingold, Oxford University Press (2021). © Oxford University Press.
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192857545.003.0012...