And so to Bod… Antiquarian Booksellers visit the Bodleian’s Weston Library
Guest post from Laurence Worms of Ash Rare Books, who visited with a group from the Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA) As part of our ongoing series of exchange visits between booksellers and...
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Napoleonic ephemera in the Curzon Collection
This blog post comes to you from Adrian Kerrison, Senior Collections Support Assistant, who has been supervising the Weston Library re-ingest move since September 2014. When I am not working on the...
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Stuarts Online and animated
A web resource for schools, Stuarts Online, featuring materials from the Bodleian and Ashmolean has launched a video narrated by David Mitchell. The Stuarts in Seven Minutes has been produced as part...
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Lower Heyford and Caulcott War Memorial Library
“The best memorial of lives given in the defence of England and English ideals is something which will better the lives of those who are left and tend to make more secure the civilization for which our...
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Die Armenbibel im Stundenbuch–Zum mehrschichtigen Inhalt des frühen...
A guest post from Stefan Matter (Freiburg/Schweiz) This is the German preview of an original article to appear later this month in conjunction with the publication of the volume ‘German Manuscripts in...
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Invisible women: Yolande Bonhomme, 16th-century publisher
Francesca Galligan, Bodleian Rare Books There were many women printing in the 16th century. But for a variety of reasons, it can be hard to find their work in library catalogues. Yolande Bonhomme is a...
View ArticleHow the Bodleian Library collected playbooks: evidence from Library Records
Tara Lyons (Illinois State University) Sassoon Visiting Fellowship, Bodleian Libraries Through an examination of the Bodleian’s archive of its own history, the Library Records collection, Tara Lyons...
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How Religious Fanaticism Affected the Dating of a Book
Maria Czepiel Humanae Salutis Monumenta (‘HSM’) is a book of poems on Biblical subjects by the Spanish humanist Benito Arias Montano, richly illustrated with engravings. A copy of this work is in the...
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A virtual tour of Dante 1481 in multiple copies
See recording of the online multi-library event on 4 May 2021 See the film demonstrating printing an intaglio plate on a letterpress sheet A follow-up seminar will take place on 6 July 2021;...
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Nature Printing
by Elena Trowsdale, an English Literature and Language Finalist at Brasenose College on placement in Special Collections. Elena has been identifying some examples of ‘nature prints’ in Bodleian...
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