Merton College Library

Author : Julia C. Walworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Academic librarians
ISBN : 1851245391

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Merton College Library by Julia C. Walworth Pdf

The Merton library is rightly known for its antiquity, its beautiful medieval and early modern architecture and fittings, and its remarkable collection of manuscripts and rare books. However, a nineteenth-century plan to tear the medieval library down and replace it was only narrowly prevented. This brief history of Europe's oldest surviving academic library begins with its origins in the thirteenth century, when a new type of community of scholars was first being set up, and follows through to the present day and its multiple functions as a working college library, a unique resource for researchers, and a delight for curious visitors. ​Drawing on the remarkable wealth of documentation in the college's archives, this is the first history of the library to explore collections, buildings, readers, and staff across more than seven hundred years. The story is told in part through stunning color images that depict not only exceptional treasures but also the library furnishings and decorations, and which show manuscripts, books, bindings, and artifacts of different periods in their changing contexts. Featuring a historical timeline and a floor plan of the college, this book will be of interest to historians, alumni, and tourists alike.

Author : Geoffrey Haward Martin,John Roger Loxdale Highfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015040031471

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A History of Merton College, Oxford by Geoffrey Haward Martin,John Roger Loxdale Highfield Pdf

Established in 1264, Merton College was the first self-governing college in Oxford and the model for all the historic colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. This history also covers the development of the college library and the impact of John Wyclif.

Author : Merton College. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : MINN:31951002004591S

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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of Merton College by Merton College. Library Pdf

Author : Henry Julian White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781108017978

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Merton College, Oxford by Henry Julian White Pdf

Sometimes humorous, always fascinating, this work first published in 1906 provides a rare insight into one of Britain's oldest institutions.

Author : Rodney M. Thomson,Nigel Guy Wilson
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124156337

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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Merton College, Oxford by Rodney M. Thomson,Nigel Guy Wilson Pdf

Descriptive catalogue provides a crucial guide to one of the most important repositories of medieval manuscrips. Merton College, Oxford, one of the oldest colleges in the University, was founded in 1264. Its library contains some 328 complete medieval manuscript books (plus several hundred fragments in, or extracted from, the bindings of early printed books), dating from the ninth to the late fifteenth century. Most of them came to the College before the Reformation, and are the remains of its medieval collection, part of which was chained in the library, part in circulation amongst the Fellowship. Together with the College's surviving medieval archive, which includes no fewer than twenty-three book-lists, this material provides an important window on intellectual life at the University of Oxford between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries, and on the manufacture, acquisition and use of the books that supported it. This first catalogue of the medieval manuscripts since 1852 offers full and detailed descriptions of each item, supported by a colour frontispiece, 50 colour plates, and 107 black and white plates. Its introduction provides the first detailed history of Merton's medieval library, including an account of the building anddesign of the College's 'Old Library', built in the 1370s, western Europe's oldest library room still in use today; and the volume is completed with four appendices (including a comprehensive set of extracts from the College's medieval account rolls referring to its books and library) and two indexes. RODNEY M. THOMSON is Professor of History and Honorary Research Associate in the School of History and Classics, University of Tasmania.

Author : Merton College Library
Publisher : Arkose Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1346024154

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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of Merton College by Merton College Library Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : David H. Stam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136777844

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International Dictionary of Library Histories by David H. Stam Pdf

Following the format of Fitzroy Dearborn's highly successful International Dictionary of Historic Places and International Dictionary of University Histories, the International Dictionary of Library Histories provides basic information for each institution - location and holdings - followed by an extensive (1,000-5,000 word) essay on its history as well as a Further Reading list. In addition, the dictionary includes introductory articles on the history of various types of libraries and a library history in various regions of the world. The dictionary profiles more than 200 institutions from around the world, including the world's most important research libraries and other libraries with globally or regionally notable collections, innovative traditions, and significant and interesting histories. The essays take advantage of the growing scholarship of library history to provide insightful overviews of each institution, including not only the traditional values of these libraries but their innovations as well, such as developments in automated systems and electronic delivery. The profiles will emphasize the unique materials of research in these institutions - archives, manuscripts, personal and institutional papers. The introductory articles on types of libraries include topics ranging from theological libraries to prison libraries, from the ancient to the digital. An international team of more than 200 leading scholars in the field have contributed essays to the project.

Author : E. Merton Coulter
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780820331997

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College Life in the Old South by E. Merton Coulter Pdf

Relates the early history of the University of Georgia from its founding in 1785 through the Reconstruction era. In this history of America's first chartered state university, the author recounts, among other things, how Athens was chosen as the university's location; how the state tried to close the university and refused to give it a fixed allowance until long after the Civil War; the early rules and how students invariably broke them; the days when the Phi Kappa and Demosthenian literary societies ruled the campus; and the vast commencement crowds that overwhelmed Athens to feast on oratory and watermelons.

Author : F. Douglas Scutchfield,Paul Evans Holbrook Jr.
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780813155654

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The Letters of Thomas Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer by F. Douglas Scutchfield,Paul Evans Holbrook Jr. Pdf

This study affords an entirely new view of the nature of modern popular entertainment. American vaudeville is here regarded as the carefully elaborated ritual serving the different and paradoxical myth of the new urban folk. It demonstrates that the compulsive myth-making faculty in man is not limited to primitive ethnic groups or to serious art, that vaudeville cannot be dismissed as meaningless and irrelevant simply because it fits neither the criteria of formal criticsm or the familiar patterns of anthropological study. Using the methods for criticism developed by Susanne K. Langer and others, the author evaluates American vaudeville as a symbolic manifestation of basic values shared by the American people during the period 1885-1930. By examining vaudeville as folk ritual, the book reveals the unconscious symbolism basic to vaudeville-in its humor, magic, animal acts, music, and playlets, and also in the performers and the managers -- which gave form to the dominant American myth of success. This striking view of the new mass man as a folk and of his mythology rooted in the very empirical science devoted to dispelling myth has implications for the serious study of all forms of mass entertainment in America. The book is illustrated with a number of striking photographs.

Author : Merton College. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:48497813

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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of Merton College by Merton College. Library Pdf

Author : David D. Nolte
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192528506

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Galileo Unbound by David D. Nolte Pdf

Galileo Unbound traces the journey that brought us from Galileo's law of free fall to today's geneticists measuring evolutionary drift, entangled quantum particles moving among many worlds, and our lives as trajectories traversing a health space with thousands of dimensions. Remarkably, common themes persist that predict the evolution of species as readily as the orbits of planets or the collapse of stars into black holes. This book tells the history of spaces of expanding dimension and increasing abstraction and how they continue today to give new insight into the physics of complex systems. Galileo published the first modern law of motion, the Law of Fall, that was ideal and simple, laying the foundation upon which Newton built the first theory of dynamics. Early in the twentieth century, geometry became the cause of motion rather than the result when Einstein envisioned the fabric of space-time warped by mass and energy, forcing light rays to bend past the Sun. Possibly more radical was Feynman's dilemma of quantum particles taking all paths at once — setting the stage for the modern fields of quantum field theory and quantum computing. Yet as concepts of motion have evolved, one thing has remained constant, the need to track ever more complex changes and to capture their essence, to find patterns in the chaos as we try to predict and control our world.

Author : Julia C. Walworth
Publisher : King College London Center for late
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 095398382X

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Parallel Narratives by Julia C. Walworth Pdf

Parallel Narratives examines several richly illustrated manuscripts as reflections of a transitional moment in the history of the book in medieval Germany. In the thirteenth century the nobility and their emulators had aspirations to own and to read books privately as an alternative to the traditional social experience of listening to recitation or to a reading in a group, large or small. But comfortable reading skills were not yet widespread. One solution was to `read' privately an illustrated book in which the images could carry the storyline without recourse to the written text. The focus of this study is a mid-thirteenth-century illustrated manuscript of Gottfried's Tristan. A close analysis of the visual narrative and its relation to the text demonstrates that the pictorial narrative presents a parallel independent telling of the Tristan story. A foil to the unusual Tristan is provided by a slightly later illuminated manuscript of the Willehalm von Orlens/ of Rudolph von Ems, in which the written text takes communicative precedence over sumptuous illuminations. In the course of developing its argument this book provides an introduction to the whole subject of the early manuscript illumination of vernacular German secular narratives. Julia C. Walworth is Research Fellow and Librarian at Merton College Oxford.

Author : John Claud Trewinard Oates
Publisher : [Cambridge, Eng.] : Cambridge University Library
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037022592

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Cambridge University Library by John Claud Trewinard Oates Pdf

Author : James Harford
Publisher : Continuum
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015070751717

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Merton and Friends by James Harford Pdf

Triple biography, told largely through their correspondence, of 3 college friends who ultimately went on to literary fame religious writer Thomas Merton, minimalist poet Robert Lax, and author/photographer/magazine publisher Edward Rice.

Author : George Charles Brodrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033574802

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Memorials of Merton College by George Charles Brodrick Pdf