/ en /node/2144 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2020-12/New%20College%20Library%2C%20Oxford%20-%20BT3.55.12.png.webp?itok=EJ-TRZ-s" width="655" height="435" alt="°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, BT3.55.12" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Edward Bernard (1638–1697) and °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">William Poole</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2020): 14</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/289" hreflang="en">Edward Bernard</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/231" hreflang="en">Savilian professorships</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/80" hreflang="en">Library Antiquarian</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/85" hreflang="en">Library Benefactors' Book</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2020-12/14NCN3%20%282020%29%20Poole%20on%20Edward%20Bernard.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=656725" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">14NCN3 (2020) Poole on Edward Bernard.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">641.33 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Thu, 31 Dec 2020 01:19:19 +0000 Christopher 2144 at /node/1981 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2019-12/Paula%20Wilson%2C%20Portrait%20of%20New%20College%2C%20Oxford%27s%20first%20women%20JCR%20and%20MCR%20Presidents%2C%20Caroline%20Kay%20and%20Ruth%20Mazo%20Karras%20%282019%29.jpg.webp?itok=QK9Fk5LL" width="655" height="435" alt="Paula Wilson, Portrait of °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ, Oxford's first women JCR and MCR Presidents, Caroline Kay and Ruth Mazo Karras (2019)" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Anniversaries, Alumni, and Acquisitions: °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library in 2019 </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Christopher Skelton-Foord</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2019): 12</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/57" hreflang="en">°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/61" hreflang="en">°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ history</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/299" hreflang="en">21stC history</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/232" hreflang="en">Geometry</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/233" hreflang="en">Astronomy</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/231" hreflang="en">Savilian professorships</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/228" hreflang="en">Sir Henry Savile</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/80" hreflang="en">Library Antiquarian</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/234" hreflang="en">Women students</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/230" hreflang="en">Kate Mosse</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/137" hreflang="en">Reginald Pole</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/229" hreflang="en">Lodovico Beccadelli</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>2019 was a year of notable anniversaries, marking as it does both the 400th anniversary of the Savilian Professorships in geometry and astronomy, and the 40th anniversary of women students at °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ.&nbsp; In 1619, the scholar and diplomat Sir Henry Savile (1549–1622)&nbsp;founded two university chairs bearing his name, which have long been associated with °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ.&nbsp; And if we fast-forward from 1619 in Oxford some 360 years to 1979, women students are for the first time ever matriculating at °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Paula Wilson, Portrait of Ruth Mazo Karras and Caroline Kay (2019)<br> Oil on board, 100 x 90 cms,&nbsp;°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ, Oxford</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2020-10/12NCN10%20%282019%29%20Skelton-Foord%20on%20Anniversaries.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=2216712" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">12NCN10 (2019) Skelton-Foord on Anniversaries.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">2.11 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Tue, 24 Dec 2019 11:13:05 +0000 Christopher 1981 at /node/1978 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2019-12/New%20College%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20BT1.47.9.png.webp?itok=V-jScsQU" width="655" height="435" alt="°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, BT1.47.9" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Christopher Saxton’s 1579 Atlas of England and Wales: An Unexpected Savilian Book Among °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library’s Treasures </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Alexandra Plane</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2019): 12</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/235" hreflang="en">Christopher Saxton</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/228" hreflang="en">Sir Henry Savile</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/231" hreflang="en">Savilian professorships</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/80" hreflang="en">Library Antiquarian</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/61" hreflang="en">°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ history</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>Christopher Saxton’s 1579 <em>Atlas of the Counties of England and Wales</em> is one of °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library’s finest early printed volumes.&nbsp; The atlas was originally in the possession of the Savile family—a wealthy, academically inclined Yorkshire dynasty.&nbsp; It was first owned by John Savile, the older brother of the Elizabethan scholar and courtier Sir Henry Savile, who founded the Savilian Professorships in Geometry and Astronomy, both of which are attached to °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, BT1.47.9</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2020-10/12NCN6%20%282019%29%20Plane%20on%20Saxton.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=732736" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">12NCN6 (2019) Plane on Saxton.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">715.56 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Tue, 24 Dec 2019 11:05:42 +0000 Christopher 1978 at /node/1977 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2019-12/BT1.70.2%20t.p..JPG.webp?itok=RgtbBrvl" width="655" height="435" alt="Peter Apian, Astronomicum Cæsareum, °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, BT1.70.2" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Stephen Standish and the Provenance of the °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Astronomicum Cæsareum (1540) </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">William Poole and Daniel Fried</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2019): 12</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/236" hreflang="en">Stephen Standish</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/237" hreflang="en">Peter Apian</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/231" hreflang="en">Savilian professorships</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/233" hreflang="en">Astronomy</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/80" hreflang="en">Library Antiquarian</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h5><strong>One of °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ</strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Garamond&quot;,serif">’</span></span><strong>s most visually striking printed books, that came into the hands of the Savilian Professor of Astronomy almost four centuries after its publication . . .</strong></h5> <h5>&nbsp;</h5> <p>°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, BT1.70.2, title page</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2020-10/12NCN5%20%282019%29%20Poole%20and%20Fried%20on%20Stephen%20Standish.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1669503" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">12NCN5 (2019) Poole and Fried on Stephen Standish.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.59 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Tue, 24 Dec 2019 11:03:24 +0000 Christopher 1977 at /node/1889 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/default_images/Fellows%20placeholder_0.jpg.webp?itok=Ldi7pvRW" width="655" height="435" alt class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> The Bets of G. H. Hardy </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Joseph Conlon</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2019): 11</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/231" hreflang="en">Savilian professorships</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2019-07/11NCN11%20%282019%29%20Conlon%20on%20Hardy.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=203849" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">11NCN11 (2019) Conlon on Hardy.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">199.07 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Sun, 28 Jul 2019 21:52:15 +0000 Christopher 1889 at