Find out more and opt out » Digitized items include the MS.Laud Or.145, the well-known manuscript rutter, or manual of compass directions Shun feng xiang song (‘Favourable Winds in Escort’), which may have been derived from accounts of the voyages of the great Ming Dynasty navigator Zheng He; and the Selden Map of China, one of the first Chinese maps to reach Europe. Subjects: Information and Research Skills, Searching the Libraries (catalogues and finding aids) The Huntington collection includes the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides (1155-1204) with the author’s signature. Bodleian Libraries Space Finder In order to comply with new Tier 4 Covid-19 restrictions in Oxfordshire, our physical library spaces are now only open to University of Oxford members. A, Selden Superius (nearly all oriental), Arch. 793, a glorious Safavid era copy of the Qur’an (which once belonged to Tīpū Sulṭān of Mysore); MS. Bodl. 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. In middle age Edwards also decided to see the world, setting off on an adventure which would change the course of her life, and the course of the study of ancient Egypt. 8,000 volumes of manuscripts and printed books which he bequeathed to the Library were received in 1659 and housed in the newly built West End. His work for Arundel resulted in the publication of De pictura veterum, a study of the classical arts. 175, a sumptuous edition of the works of 3 poets including Hāfiẓ of Shīrāz; and three further decorated manuscript copies of works by the poet Jāmī’: MS. Hyde 10, MS. Ouseley Add. 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. 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. Five early modern estate maps from the archives of Brasenose College, Oxford. The project was funded by The Polonsky Foundation, and was the first large-scale collaborative effort of its kind. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Marshall’s own correspondence is to be found scattered in several other collections in the Bodleian and elsewhere. © Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford 2020 Bodleian Libraries, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG The Library’s collection of 90 manuscripts and 100 incunabula is particularly fine for a young college - we were founded in 1870 - and includes missals, breviaries, lectionaries and books of hours. The images were migrated to Digital Bodleian in 2015. When Accademico of the college of St. Catherine at Parma he formed a first collection of medals and books; but in 1768, when the Jesuit Order was suppressed in the kingdom of Naples and duchy of Parma, it was confiscated. 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. The collection was further enhanced by donations through the 17th and 18th centuries, such as those of William Laud, Sir Kenelm Digby, and Elias Ashmole. 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. MANUSCRIPTS. The Bodleian boasts an extraordinary selection of photographic materials across its extensive archives and printed book collections. 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. The Bodleian Library Oxford United Kingdom illustration from the magazine The Graphic volume XXV no 653 June 3 1882. Its Collection mainly consists of Arts subjects, and it is especially strong in Modern Catholic Theology, Integral Ecology, and Jesuit studies. Repositories. Brady collection of theatrical ephemera. When Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603, her cousin King James VI of Scotland (1566-1625) inherited and united their crowns. 32); and the oldest copy of The Song of Roland, from the early twelfth century (MS. Digby 23b). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. Set or reset your password (Step 1 of 2): Please enter your barcode and complete the reCaptcha verification and then click Continue. He finally returned to England and spent his last years in Oxford. Oxford OX1 2JD. What’s the Score at the Bodleian? 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. Over 1,000 items from the Bodleian’s Chinese maps, manuscripts and printed books collections, acquired since the 17th century. The holdings range from the experiments of early photographers in the 19th century to the negatives and prints of contemporary artists in the 20th and 21st centuries. There are an estimated 80,000 early printed books, and well over 1,500 manuscripts in the Western, Byzantine, Hebrew, Arabic and Music collections. Hebrew books and manuscripts from the collection of Rabbi David ben Abraham Oppenheim (1664-1736). Over 500 fully-digitized books printed in Europe before 1501. PLACES. 125 photographs of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes, captured by Adolphe Braun in 1870. Arm. 238A, 238B, 238C, 238D, 238E). Read Wikipedia in Modernized UI. Canonici's collections passed to his brother Giuseppe, and on his death in 1807 to his nephews Giovanni Perissinotti and Girolamo Cardina, who divided them. These images first became accessible online in 2012 via the BBC’s Your Paintings website, which in 2016 became Art UK. Lat. A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges. The rare books holdings of the Bodleian Library reflect its history as the library of the University of Oxford since 1602, with particular strengths in theology, law, the classical tradition, mathematics, life sciences, literature and early children’s books, although almost all subjects and genres are represented. Your entrance into this grand library is made grander still as you, as a non-student, are required to orally recite a formal declaration through which you pledge to not remove or vandalize any item from the library … (2013) was a project to increase access to music scores from the Bodleian’s collections through a combination of rapid digitization and the creation of descriptive metadata through crowd-sourcing. Its holdings are of international importance and are particularly rich in music, theology, classics, travel books, numismatics, early science and Hebrew studies. Click here to login. Many of the most interesting items in the Magdalen collection are available to view in Digital Bodleian. Medieval and early modern manuscripts and papers donated to the Bodleian by antiquary Elias Ashmole (1617-1692). Other subjects came also to be represented through donation and acquisition, among them the history of England and Italian humanism. These include the library of John Stuart Mill; the papers of Mary Somerville; the watercolours, books and antiquities collection of Victorian writer and traveller Amelia Edwards; the letters of Vernon Lee; photographs and watercolours of Far Eastern traveller Emily Kemp; photographs and letters of Vera Brittain and papers of her daughter Baroness Williams of Crosby. Thanks to the generosity of the William Delafield Charitable Trust, Brasenose College has been able to digitize some of its collection of 18th century maps showing College estates across England. Around 50 modern manuscripts and archives from the Bodleian have been digitized to date, including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein drafts; 30 volumes of William Godwin's diary; an important album of photography by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879); and T.E. CONTACT US. 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 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. Bodleian Libraries. Other digitized material includes MS. Bodl. Over 800 games, playbills, posters, writing blanks and more from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. It was a collaboration between the Bodleian Library, Balliol College, Corpus Christi College, Jesus College, Magdalen College, Merton College, and St John’s College. In the mid-2000s, all 18th and 19th century board games in the John Johnson Collection (mostly single sheets) and all educational writing blanks from the Johnson, Opie and Harding Collections were digitized, together with other games of the same period, selected for their educational content. Collections were selected for digitization based on areas of shared strength between the two libraries: Hebrew manuscripts, Greek manuscripts, and incunabula or 15th-century printed books, primarily ones printed in Italy. Books and manuscripts collected by Francis Douce (1757-1834) and bequeathed to the Bodleian, including books of hours, French romances, and early English literature. The Bodleian now holds as many as a quarter of all the extant Chinese books that arrived in Europe in the 17th century. Written by the 16 year old Edwards, it foreshadows her own life. Arm. 23 and MS. Elliott 254. The formal list of volumes handed over was signed on 18 May 1817, and the books probably arrived later that year. He presented these to the Bodleian in 1634. They help tailor your day to suit your budget and tastes. The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford is the largest university library system in the United Kingdom. Bodleian Readers can also access the Lower and Upper Reading Rooms, and the Duke Humfrey's Library, from the Proscholuim (main entrance hall) - please note that these routes are via stairs. B, and Selden Supra. Login with Facebook Five items from the library at Merton College, Oxford. Between 2012 and 2017, the Bodleian Libraries and the Vatican Library collaborated to digitize 1.5 million images of manuscripts and early printed books. 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. c. 90, the remarkable cosmographical treatise known as the Book of Curiosities. 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 requested page is not currently available due to visibility settings. The College has extensive special collections with material dating from the 12th to the 20th centuries. The Rosellini and Champollion expedition publications are an invaluable and irreplaceable record because they contain information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the period of modern Egyptology. The filmstrips and slides were digitized in 2007, and made available on a precursor site to Digital Bodleian. This collection has been developing since the 17th century, when the first South Asian books were donated to the Library by Archbishop William Laud in 1635-40. These items were digitized in the mid-2000s for a precursor site to Digital Bodleian. University Offices. The early history of the College is preserved with remarkable completeness: records of early College business, fifteenth century Library catalogues and manuscripts all still form part of Lincoln’s historic collections, giving us an unparalleled picture of its intellectual and administrative history and of what was considered to be the finest College Library in Oxford. These fragments may be the earliest known fragments of the New Testament and one of the earliest codices in existence. The 19th and early 20th centuries brought further opportunities for acquisitions, notably of books belonging to Francis Douce and Matteo Luigi Canonici. The digitized portraits include a series of 19 portraits of Oxford College founders executed c.1670; the sculpted head-stops which decorate the Old Schools Quadrangle of the library; and an early "grand tour" portrait recently attributed to Pompeo Batoni. Before the foundation of the College part of the site was occupied by one of the medieval Oxford halls, Brasenose Hall. Printed books, maps and manuscripts from the Bodleian's Chinese special collections. Over the five years of the project, the Bodleian was able to digitize nearly the entire Barocci collection of Greek manuscripts; several import collections of Hebrew manuscripts; and more than 500 printed books, including the Bodleian's copy of the Gutenberg Bible. High quality Bodleian Library gifts and merchandise. The Bodleian map collection holds 1,500,000 sheet maps and 20,000 atlases from all parts of the globe, with topographic and thematic maps dating from medieval times to the present day. These large photographs (37x48 cm) exemplify Braun’s technical abilities in successfully capturing the curved surface of the ceiling. In successive centuries many more portraits arrived, by gift, by bequest, and, rarely, by purchase. There is no login or password required to carry out a search via Heritage as no e-resources are available. 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. Key works in 19th-century entomology from the library of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, with full-colour specimen drawings. Nearly 800 fully-digitized Hebrew manuscripts and printed books from the medieval and early modern periods. They range from a copy of the Gutenberg Bible purchased in 1793, and the sumptuous ‘Strozzi copy’ of Pliny’s Natural History in Italian from the bequest of Francis Douce (one of the Library’s principal donors), and both of which have been digitized, to smaller and much-used copies of medieval devotional works and school-texts. 10% discount in the shop and online. The digitized items include MS. Kennicott 1, ‘the Kennicott bible’ a magnificently decorated 15th century Hebrew bible donated to the library by Benjamin Kennicott; and MS. Kennicott 3, a rare example of a dated and lavishly illustrated Ashkenazi Pentateuch. Western manuscripts and archives from the years 1500 to 1800. Solo Link SOLO is the Bodleian’s search and discovery tool for the major collections of the libraries of the University of Oxford. Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew and Persian manuscripts from the collection of Edward Pococke (1604-91), bought by the Bodleian in 1692. Wellington Square. Bodleian Library, library of the University of Oxford, one of the oldest and most important nonlending reference libraries in Great Britain. The collection of Greek manuscripts was formed by the mathematician Francesco Barozzi (1537-1604), who lived for most of his life in Crete, and by his nephew Iacopo Barozzi of Venice (1562-1617), who inherited and added to it. A volume of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, with annotations from Edmund Campion. These images meticulously surveyed the frescoes decorating the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The collection has a special significance as reflecting the academic interests of members of the medieval university. Also digitized were Bauer's "Fauna Graeca" drawings of animals of the Mediterranean, created for a never-published work, and a unique series of topographic "Mediterranean Scenes". The digitized material includes writing blanks and board games, and 18th century entertainment ephemera. Greek manuscripts collected by Francesco Barocci (1537-1604). Chinese, Hebrew, Persian and Western manuscripts donated by Archbishop William Laud (1573-1644/5). The books themselves are in the classical and vernacular languages, and cover all subjects and disciplines. The collections of Laud and Pococke contained a small number of Persian items, but it was with the collections of John and Thomas Greaves that the first Persian manuscripts of note entered the Library. 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. Originally available on a separate website, the photographs are now part of Digital Bodleian. Christ Church Library houses one of the largest and richest collections of early printed books and manuscripts in Oxford. 133, the extraordinary 15th-century astrological compilation made in Jalāyirid Baghdad known as Kitāb al-Bulhān; and MS. Arab. Select important Georgian texts spanning 900 years, from an 11th-century menologion to the 1907 Memorandum of the people of Georgia. Please contact the department directly to check current arrangements. The first portrait in the Library, the polychromed bust of Sir Thomas Bodley by an unknown artist, arrived in 1605. Beginning in 1995, the project photographed almost ninety manuscripts written between the ninth and nineteenth centuries. PEOPLE. The Bodleian holds one of the world’s largest and most wide-ranging collections of archives and manuscripts. The Radcliffe Camera and Bodleian library will begin the transition this week, and the Upper Camera Reading Room will close on two mornings to accommodate the work. In addition, the Bodleian’s collections also contain several blockbooks (printed from wooden blocks, on to which the texts and illustrations have been cut). They were migrated to Digital Bodleian in 2018. 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. Many are vividly illustrated, depicting fossils, rock sequences and landscapes. Bodleian Library Shop. 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. 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. May we send you important email updates about the conference, including agenda updates and joining instructions? Some more modern material is also included, such as bindings, examples of the revival of calligraphy and illumination in the 19th and 20th centuries, and antiquarian drawings of medieval monuments. THE Bodleian library, however, refers to a group of 5 buildings located adjacent to one another. 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. Archbishop Laud's donation to the Library comprised 1242 volumes which were received in three main instalments in 1635, 1636 and 1639, and in smaller ones in 1640-1. He was a Keeper of the Manuscripts at the British Museum from c. 1807 to 1811, and took part in the preparation of the Lansdowne and Harleian catalogues. ‘The Bodleian is where I shall most happily rest’: John Le Carré’s archive shows the literary craftsman at work. Bodleian Library is temporarily closed until further notice. 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. The Sir Arthur Evans Archive is held by the Department of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum. Login with Gmail. The library has continued to acquire German manuscripts in the last century, including the recent purchase of a prayer book made by a Cistercian nun at Medingen Abbey. 60. University of Oxford. Manuscripts collected by Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665), given to the Bodleian in 1634-9. The result of almost four centuries of building the collections is a veritable treasure trove of cartographic materials. They were purchased by Count von Bülow following the destruction of the monastic libraries in 1806; after his death (probably in 1836) some of these were bought by Mr. John Broad, who presented them to Sir William Hamilton, his former mentor at Edinburgh. Items from the library at Magdalen College, Oxford. Yes ... Visit the Bodleian Library; Donate; A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges. Throughout the centuries numerous manuscripts have been donated to or acquired by the library with a significant number of acquisitions dating to the late 19th century. 0 / £0.00. The scores include dance music and other pieces designed for home entertainment, many with illustrated covers. Over 4,000 digitized items from the Bodleian Libraries' collections of piano music intended for the amateur market in mid-Victorian Britain. The completed school piece would then be given to parents, relations or friends. It was a miscellaneous collection in at least 20 languages, both Western and Oriental, partly acquired from Germany, especially Würzburg. Included among them is an edition of the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, unique due to Edmund Campion’s annotations, volume one of which was selected as the first item from Campion Hall’s collection to be digitized. Also available are items from other Oxford organisations, including a series of images taken by Arnold Fairbairns to illustrate a history of Lincoln College by Stephen A. Warner (1880-1948). A small number of images are derived from material in the Oxford University Archives. He bequeathed all his manuscripts, printed books, coins and prints to the Bodleian Library. PLACES. Manuscripts from the collection of Robert Huntington (1637-1701), including Arabic, Coptic, Hebrew and Syriac manuscripts. 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