Donations To The Bodleian Library

Author : Mary Clapinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : 1851245448

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A Brief History of the Bodleian Library by Mary Clapinson Pdf

How did a library founded over four hundred years ago grow to become the world-renowned institution it is today, home to over thirteen million items? From its foundation by Sir Thomas Bodley in 1598 to the opening of the Weston Library in 2015, this illustrated account shows how the Library's history has been involved with the British monarchy and political events throughout the centuries. The history of the Library is also a history of collectors and collections, and this book traces the story of major donations and purchases, making use of the Library's own substantial archives to show how it came to house key items such as early confirmations of the Magna Carta, Shakespeare's First Folio, and the manuscript of Jane Austen's earliest writings, among many others. This revised edition brings the history of the Bodleian Library up to the present moment. Beautifully illustrated with prints, portraits, manuscripts, and archival material, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of libraries and collections.

Author : Rebecca Abrams,César Merchán-Hamann
Publisher : Bodleian Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 1851245022

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Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries by Rebecca Abrams,César Merchán-Hamann Pdf

Representing four centuries of collecting and 1000 years of Jewish history, this book brings together extraordinary Hebrew manuscripts and rare books from the Bodleian Library and Oxford colleges. Highlights of the collections include a fragment of Maimonides' autograph draft of the Mishneh Torah; the earliest dated fragment of the Talmud, exquisitely illuminated manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible; stunning festival prayerbooks and one of the oldest surviving Jewish seals in England. Lavishly illustrated essays by experts in the field bring to life the outstanding works contained in the collections, as well as the personalities and diverse motivations of their original collectors, who include Archbishop William Laud, John Selden, Edward Pococke, Robert Huntington, Venetian Jesuit Matteo Canonici, Benjamin Kennicott and Rabbi David Oppenheim. Saved for posterity by religious scholarship, intellectual rivalry and political ambition, these extraordinary collections also detail the consumption and circulation of knowledge across the centuries, forming a social and cultural history of objects moved across borders, from person to person. Together, they offer a fascinating journey through Jewish intellectual and social history from the tenth to the twentieth century.

Author : Bodleian Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015036838228

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Annual Report of the Curators of the Bodleian Library by Bodleian Library Pdf

Author : Bodleian Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044089346886

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Donations to the Bodleian Library by Bodleian Library Pdf

Author : David Vaisey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1851244778

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Bodleian Library Treasures by David Vaisey Pdf

Since its founding, the Bodleian Library has become home to treasures from throughout history and every corner of the globe. From among this remarkable and historically rich collection, David Vaisey has selected nearly one hundred treasures with a particularly fascinating story to tell. Rare books, music, manuscripts, ephemera, and maps, many of the treasures photographed and described for this lavish volume are well-loved around the world, from Jane Austen's manuscript of The Watsons to notebooks created by the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a map of Narnia drawn by C. S. Lewis, and the original manuscript of the renowned children's work The Wind in the Willows. Others are known for their beauty or historical significance, including the Gutenberg Bible, Magna Carta, and the extraordinary medieval manuscript the Douce Apocalypse. Still others hold poignant stories like the small handwritten book presented as a New Year's present in 1545 to Katherine Parr by an eleven-year-old stepdaughter who would later become Queen Elizabeth I. Vaisey brings these and other treasures together in chronological order, showcasing the Bodleian Library's renowned collections.

Author : Edward Williams Byron Nicholson,Bodleian Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Library administration
ISBN : BSB:BSB11516910

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The Bodleian Library in 1882-7 by Edward Williams Byron Nicholson,Bodleian Library Pdf

Author : Bodleian Library,Edward Williams Byron Nicholson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015033918130

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The Bodleian Library in 1882-87 by Bodleian Library,Edward Williams Byron Nicholson Pdf

Author : Paul Gooding,Melissa Terras
Publisher : Facet Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783303779

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Electronic Legal Deposit by Paul Gooding,Melissa Terras Pdf

Legal deposit libraries, the national and academic institutions who systematically preserve our written cultural record, have recently been mandated with expanding their collection practices to include digitised and born-digital materials. The regulations that govern electronic legal deposit often also prescribe how these materials can be accessed. Although a growing international activity, there has been little consideration of the impact of e-legal deposit on the 21st Century library, or on its present or future users. This edited collection is a timely opportunity to bring together international authorities who are placed to explore the social, institutional and user impacts of e-legal deposit. It uniquely provides a thorough overview of this worldwide issue at an important juncture in the history of library collections in our changing information landscape, drawing on evidence gathered from real-world case studies produced in collaboration with leading libraries, researchers and practitioners (Biblioteca Nacional de México, Bodleian Libraries, British Library, National Archives of Zimbabwe, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Sweden). Chapters consider the viewpoint of a variety of stakeholders, including library users, researchers, and publishers, and provide overviews of the complex digital preservation and access issues that surround e-legal deposit materials, such as web archives and interactive media. The book will be essential reading for practitioners and researchers in national and research libraries, those developing digital library infrastructures, and potential users of these collections, but also those interested in the long-term implications of how our digital collections are conceived, regulated and used. Electronic legal deposit is shaping our digital library collections, but also their future use, and this volume provides a rigorous account of its implementation and impact.

Author : William Dunn Macray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044051732873

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Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A. D. 1598-A. D. 1867 by William Dunn Macray Pdf

Author : Richard Ovenden
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674241206

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Burning the Books by Richard Ovenden Pdf

The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction—and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Burning the Books recounts the history that brought us to this point. Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the UK Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations for these acts—political, religious, and cultural—and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process. More than simply repositories for knowledge, libraries and archives inspire and inform citizens. In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself. By preserving records of citizenship and records of the rights of citizens as enshrined in legal documents such as the Magna Carta and the decisions of the US Supreme Court, they support the rule of law. In Burning the Books, Ovenden takes a polemical stance on the social and political importance of the conservation and protection of knowledge, challenging governments in particular, but also society as a whole, to improve public policy and funding for these essential institutions.

Author : Bodleian Library,Stanley Lane-Poole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Coins, Arab
ISBN : UCAL:C3332679

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Catalogue of the Mohammadan Coins Preserved in the Bodleian Library at Oxford by Bodleian Library,Stanley Lane-Poole Pdf

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0199680922

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Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts by Jane Austen Pdf

Kathryn Sutherland presents an edition of the fiction manuscripts of Jane Austen: the first substantial collection of autograph writings to survive for a British novelist. Volume I contains the introductory material to the edition, three original essays, and the facsimile and facing-page transcription of Volume the First.

Author : Jerry Brotton,Nick Millea
Publisher : Bodleian Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
ISBN : 1851245154

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Talking Maps by Jerry Brotton,Nick Millea Pdf

Every map tells a story. Some provide a narrative for travellers, explorers and surveyors or offer a visual account of changes to people's lives, places and spaces, while others tell imaginary tales, transporting us to fictional worlds created by writers and artists. In turn, maps generate more stories, taking users on new journeys in search of knowledge and adventure.Drawing on the Bodleian Library's outstanding map collection and covering almost a thousand years, 'Talking Maps' takes a new approach to map-making by showing how maps and stories have always been intimately entwined. Including such rare treasures as a unique map of the Mediterranean from the eleventh-century Arabic 'Book of Curiosities', al-Sharīf al-Idrīsī's twelfth-century world map, C.S. Lewis's map of Narnia, J.R.R. Tolkien's cosmology of Middle-earth and Grayson Perry's twenty-first-century tapestry map, this fascinating book analyses maps as objects that enable us to cross sea and land; as windows into alternative and imaginary worlds; as guides to reaching the afterlife; as tools to manage cities, nations, even empires; as images of environmental change; and as digitized visions of the global future.By telling the stories behind the artefacts and those generated by them, 'Talking Maps' reveals how each map is not just a tool for navigation but also a worldly proposal that helps us to understand who we are by describing where we are.

Author : Bodleian Library,Minh Chung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Korea
ISBN : 185124526X

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Korean Treasures by Bodleian Library,Minh Chung Pdf

Many important and valuable manuscripts, rare books, and artefacts related to Korea have been acquired by donations throughout the long history of the Bodleian Library and the museums of the University of Oxford. However, due to an early lack of specialist knowledge in this area, many of these Korean items were largely neglected. This publication uncovers these treasures and presents them together in a single volume for the first time. Notable items include the court painting scroll of the funeral procession of King Yongjo (1694-1776); a presentation edition of a book given by King Yongjo to his son-in-law; a group of documents issued by Emperor Kojong (1852-1919) between 1885 and 1886 to confer various titles to his civil and military officials; a sundial made by the famous maker Kang Yun (1830-98) for Emperor Kojong; a ceramic dish made and signed by Princess Yi Pangja (1901-89) as well as a rare example of a suit of armour, an ornate helmet of the early sixteenth century, a general's quiver and arrows, and many more. -- Book jacket.

Author : Richard Bruce Parkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1851245855

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Tutankhamun by Richard Bruce Parkinson Pdf

In 1922, as Egypt became an independent nation, the tomb of the young king Tutankhamun was discovered at Luxor, the first known intact royal burial from ancient Egypt. The excavation of the small but crowded tomb by Howard Carter and his team generated enormous media interest and was famously photographed by Harry Burton. These photographs, along with letters, plans, drawings and diaries, are part of an archive created by the excavators and presented to the Griffith Institute, University of Oxford after Carter's death. These historic images and records present a vivid and first-hand account of the discovery, of the spectacular variety of the king's burial goods and of the remarkable work that went into documenting and conserving them. The archive enables a nuanced and inclusive view of the complexities of both the ancient burial and the excavation, including often overlooked Egyptian members of the archaeological team. This selection of fifty key items by the staff of the Griffith Institute provides an accessible and authoritative overview of the archive, drawing on new research on the collection and giving an intimate insight into the records of one of the world's most famous archaeological discoveries.