Library Antiquarian / en John Russell (c. 1430–1494) and a Fragmentary Witness to Peter Schoeffer’s 1470 edition of Jerome’s Letters /john-russell-c-1430-1494-and-fragmentary-witness-peter-schoeffers-1470-edition-jeromes-letters <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/2024-07/John%20Russell%E2%80%99s%20inscription%20on%20the%20second%20of%20two%20fragmentary%20flyleaves%2C%20New%20College%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20LPF3-2%2C%20f.%2047%20%5Bdetail%5D.jpg.webp?itok=erktWbBh" width="655" height="435" alt="John Russell’s inscription on the second of two fragmentary flyleaves, °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, LPF3/2, f. 47 [detail]" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> John Russell (c. 1430–1494) and a Fragmentary Witness to Peter Schoeffer’s 1470 edition of Jerome’s Letters </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">James Willoughby</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">(2024): 21</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/560" hreflang="en">Library Printed Fragments</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/561" hreflang="en">John Russell</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/562" hreflang="en">Peter Schoeffer</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/248" hreflang="en">Saint Jerome</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/563" hreflang="en">LPF3/2, f. 47</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/564" hreflang="en">BT1.16.1</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>The fragments in °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library which are the focus of this note are two large vellum leaves of Imperial size, three sides of which are printed, the fourth blank, and it was on this blank page that John Russell wrote his name in 1472. The discoloration at the edges shows that they were once pastedown; they may originally have been flyleaves; in either case, the verso was the natural place for an inscription.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, LPF3/2, f. 47 [detail]</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/2024-07/21NCN2%20%282024%29%20Willoughby%20on%20Russell.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1032544" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">21NCN2 (2024) Willoughby on Russell.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1008.34 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 29 Jul 2024 17:04:22 +0000 Christopher 3146 at Unique and Distinctive Acquisitions to °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library in 2023 /unique-and-distinctive-acquisitions-new-college-library-2023 <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/2023-12/New%20College%20Rowing%20IV%2C%20Cloisters%2C%20New%20College%20%281909%29%E2%80%94showing%20Ernest%20Victor%20Culme-Seymour%20%28second%20from%20left%29.jpg.webp?itok=kQxoOdvy" width="655" height="435" alt="°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Rowing IV, Cloisters, °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ (1909)—showing Ernest Victor Culme-Seymour (second from left), NCA JCR/R/Culme-Seymour/23" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Unique and Distinctive Acquisitions to °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library in 2023 </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">(2023): 20</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/80" hreflang="en">Library Antiquarian</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/74" hreflang="en">Archives</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/536" hreflang="en">Thomas Harding</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/537" hreflang="en">George Bate</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/79" hreflang="en">Edward Young</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/538" hreflang="en">Thomas Ken</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/539" hreflang="en">Walter Montagu</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/540" hreflang="en">Sir Joseph Miles Clay</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/541" hreflang="en">Ernest Victor Culme-Seymour</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/300" hreflang="en">William Leonard Courtney</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/529" hreflang="en">John Fowles</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/542" hreflang="en">D. M. Thomas</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/543" hreflang="en">Owen Sheers</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/544" hreflang="en">Duff Cooper</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/545" hreflang="en">John Julius Norwich</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>Ongoing collection development activity ensures we do not rest on our laurels, and 2023 saw us procure important antiquarian items that speak to times of religious and political conflict. Chief among them are: a rare copy of <em>An Answere to Maister Juelles Chalenge</em> (1564) by °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Jesuit theologian Thomas Harding (1516–1572), who fled to Louvain for refuge following the accession of Elizabeth I; a donation by a generous alumnus of <em>Miscellanea Spiritualia: or, Devout Essaies</em> (1648) by Benedictine abbot Walter Montagu (1603?–1677), who as a recusant was banished, then later imprisoned in the Tower of London; a copy of a defence of Charles I during the Civil War period, <em>Elenchus Motuum nuperorum in Anglia</em> (1649), by °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ man George Bate (1608–1668), who extraordinarily was chief physician successively to Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, and Charles II; and four books (at auction) by college fellow Thomas Ken (1637–1711), who refused to comply with the attempts of James II to grant the realm religious freedom and suspend enforced conformity to the Church of England.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Rowing IV, Cloisters, °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ (1909)—showing Ernest Victor Culme-Seymour (second from left)<br>°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Archives, Oxford, NCA JCR/R/Culme-Seymour/23</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/2023-12/20NCN10%20%282023%29%20Skelton-Foord%20on%20Acquisitions%20in%202023.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1730828" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">20NCN10 (2023) Skelton-Foord on Acquisitions in 2023.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.65 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Fri, 29 Dec 2023 02:09:49 +0000 Christopher 2928 at Collecting /collecting <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/2023-12/John%20Fowles%2C%20The%20Collector%20%281963%29%2C%20dustjacket%2C%20New%20College%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20NC-FOW.jpg.webp?itok=U12njtZw" width="655" height="435" alt="John Fowles, The Collector (1963), dustjacket, °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, NC/FOW" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Collecting </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">(2023): 20</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/529" hreflang="en">John Fowles</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/277" hreflang="en">Exhibitions</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/530" hreflang="en">The Collector, 1963</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/531" hreflang="en">Book collecting</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/104" hreflang="en">20thC history</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/532" hreflang="en">BT3.275.1</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>Recently I acquired for °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library’s collections a first edition copy of <em>The Collector</em>, the debut novel by °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ alumnus John Fowles (1926–2005), which sixty years ago in 1963 launched his spectacular career as a writer. First published in May 1963 by Jonathan Cape of London, the copy I acquired bears the iconic original dustjacket with a <em>trompe-l’œil</em> design by Tom Adams (1926–2019), who also created the artwork for paperback editions of Agatha Christie’s novels. Moreover, this particular copy was signed by Fowles.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>John Fowles, <em>The Collector</em> (London: Jonathan Cape, 1963), dustjacket<br>°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, NC/FOW</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/2023-12/20NCN8%20%282023%29%20Skelton-Foord%20on%20Collecting%20%28Fowles%29.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=970716" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">20NCN8 (2023) Skelton-Foord on Collecting (Fowles).pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">947.96 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Fri, 29 Dec 2023 00:59:16 +0000 Christopher 2926 at A Tale of Two Books: The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies at °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library /tale-two-books-naturall-and-morall-historie-east-and-west-indies-new-college-library <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/2023-12/New%20College%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20BT3.204.16%20%5Bdetail%5D.jpg.webp?itok=nYkYt-eq" width="655" height="435" alt="°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, BT3.204.16, title page [detail]" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> A Tale of Two Books: The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies at °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">William Shire</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">(2023): 20</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/80" hreflang="en">Library Antiquarian</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/521" hreflang="en">BT3.204.15</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/522" hreflang="en">BT3.204.16</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/523" hreflang="en">José de Acosta</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/85" hreflang="en">Library Benefactors' Book</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/73" hreflang="en">Arthur Lake</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>What is the history of two copies (BT3.204.15 and BT3.204.16) of the same text held at °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library—an English translation of José de Acosta’s <em>The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies</em>, first published in 1604? &nbsp;The readership, marginalia, binding, and provenance of these two copies are not only unique, but also provide insight into the history of °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ, that of its alumni, and the development of its extensive library over the centuries.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, BT3.204.16, title page [detail]</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/2023-12/20NCN5%20%282023%29%20Shire%20on%20East%20and%20West%20Indies.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1312912" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">20NCN5 (2023) Shire on East and West Indies.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.25 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Thu, 28 Dec 2023 23:11:03 +0000 Christopher 2923 at Sir Philip Rashleigh, Mineralogy, and the Cornish Industrial Revolution /sir-philip-rashleigh-mineralogy-and-cornish-industrial-revolution <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/2023-07/Rashleigh%2C%20A%20depiction%20of%20copper%20ore.jpg.webp?itok=pwuLutmH" width="655" height="435" alt="A depiction of copper ore—°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, NB.190.10" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Sir Philip Rashleigh, Mineralogy, and the Cornish Industrial Revolution </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">William Shire</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">(2023): 19</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/80" hreflang="en">Library Antiquarian</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/471" hreflang="en">Philip Rashleigh</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/472" hreflang="en">Mineralogy</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/473" hreflang="en">NB.190.10</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><em>Specimens of British Minerals</em> was written by the mineralogist and antiquary, Sir Philip Rashleigh. Published in two parts in 1797 and 1802, the °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library copy contains both of these parts bound together to form one volume. Although in a relatively unassuming binding, its author, provenance, and contents are significant both historically and bibliographically.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, NB.190.10</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/2023-07/19NCN6%20%282023%29%20Shire%20on%20Sir%20Philip%20Rashleigh.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=329728" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">19NCN6 (2023) Shire on Sir Philip Rashleigh.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">322 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:03:11 +0000 Christopher 2766 at Fear Sells: Addenda to the 1588 Malleus Maleficarum /fear-sells-addenda-1588-malleus-maleficarum <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/2023-07/New%20College%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20BT3.259.6.jpg.webp?itok=kKR8zd6I" width="655" height="435" alt="°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, BT3.259.6 [detail]" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Fear Sells: Addenda to the 1588 Malleus Maleficarum </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Caitlín Kane</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">(2023): 19</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/465" hreflang="en">Witchcraft</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/466" hreflang="en">BT3.259.6</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/467" hreflang="en">BT3.259.7</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/468" hreflang="en">Malleus Maleficarum</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/469" hreflang="en">Heinrich Kramer</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>°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library holds a 1588 edition of the renowned treatise on witchcraft, the <em>Malleus Maleficarum</em> or&nbsp;‘Hammer of Witches’, the archetypal misogynistic text which advocated the persecution and torture of witches as heretics in secular courts.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, BT3.259.6</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/2023-07/19NCN4%20%282023%29%20Kane%20on%20Addenda.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=394454" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">19NCN4 (2023) Kane on Addenda.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">385.21 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 31 Jul 2023 13:09:34 +0000 Christopher 2764 at Old English at New: Early Printed Books in Anglo-Saxon Type, 1570–1705 /old-english-new-early-printed-books-anglo-saxon-type-1570-1705 <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/2023-07/Typographic%20tables%20of%20Anglo-Saxon%20and%20runic%20type%20used%20in%20Hickes%E2%80%99s%20Thesaurus%20%281703%29%2C%20New%20College%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20NB.187.17%2C%20p.%201%20and%20p.%20136.png.webp?itok=xYpGZLl0" width="655" height="435" alt="Typographic tables of Anglo-Saxon and runic type used in Hickes’s Thesaurus (1703), °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, NB.187.17" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Old English at New: Early Printed Books in Anglo-Saxon Type, 1570–1705 </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Antje G. Frotscher</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">(2023): 19</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/80" hreflang="en">Library Antiquarian</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/454" hreflang="en">Old English</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/455" hreflang="en">Anglo-Saxon</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/456" hreflang="en">Anglo-Saxon type</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>After over four centuries of neglect and disregard, Anglo-Saxon language, lore, and literature saw a renaissance in the 16th century. This is usually associated with the Reformation, and more specifically with the dissolution of the monasteries through which a number of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts from the monastic libraries came into the hands of interested antiquarians bent on preserving ancient knowledge and art.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, NB.187.17</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/2023-07/19NCN2%20%282023%29%20Frotscher%20on%20Old%20English.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1661041" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">19NCN2 (2023) Frotscher on Old English.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.58 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 31 Jul 2023 12:21:20 +0000 Christopher 2762 at A Library about °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ: Noteworthy Acquisitions in 2022 /node/2604 <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/2023-02/Openings%2011.jpg.webp?itok=HzxvUyqT" width="655" height="435" alt="°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, NC/SKE Oversize" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> A Library about °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ: Noteworthy Acquisitions in 2022 </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">(2022): 18</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/80" hreflang="en">Library Antiquarian</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/74" hreflang="en">Archives</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/170" hreflang="en">Colleges of St Mary Winton Collection</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/77" hreflang="en">Winchester College</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/438" hreflang="en">George Isaac Huntingford</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/439" hreflang="en">John Evelyn Barlas</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/440" hreflang="en">Evelyn Douglas</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/441" hreflang="en">John Galsworthy</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/442" hreflang="en">Shamus Frazer</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/443" hreflang="en">James Ian Arbuthnot Frazer</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/444" hreflang="en">Sir Jonathan Trelawny, third baronet</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/448" hreflang="en">Lord Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu, third Baron Montagu of Beaulieu</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/445" hreflang="en">Theodore Wratislaw</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/446" hreflang="en">Fernando Leal Audirac</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/361" hreflang="en">Alice Oswald</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>Ensuring through collection building that °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library is a library about as well as for college is one of the librarian’s many rewarding responsibilities. As we seek to enrich our collections and to preserve our institutional history, 2022 has seen important purchases and donations: of books written by alumni past, of items associated with our college and our partner Wykehamist foundation Winchester College, as well as of books penned by celebrated fiction writers and poets of °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ presently writing.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Fernando Leal Audirac, <em>The End of the Known World</em> (Milan, 2022)<br> °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, NC/SKE Oversize</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/2022-12/18NCN12%20%282022%29%20Skelton-Foord%20on%20Acquisitions%20in%202022.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=985808" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">18NCN12 (2022) Skelton-Foord on Acquisitions in 2022.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">962.7 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Thu, 29 Dec 2022 23:59:07 +0000 Christopher 2604 at The Other Samuel Johnson’s English Grammar /node/2600 <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/2022-12/New%20College%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20Keynes%201.jpg.webp?itok=o-KE3dHg" width="655" height="435" alt="°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, Keynes 1" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> The Other Samuel Johnson’s English Grammar </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade</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">(2022): 18</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/422" hreflang="en">Robert Lowth</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/426" hreflang="en">Samuel Johnson</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/423" hreflang="en">Randal Keynes</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/427" hreflang="en">Letters</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>An anonymous grammar was published a few years after Robert Lowth’s <em>A Short Introduction to English Grammar</em> (1762)—<em>The First Easy Rudiments of Grammar, Applied to the English Tongue</em> (1765), attributed to Samuel Johnson. But copies are elusive. Who was this Samuel Johnson, and what was his connection to our °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ scholar and fellow Robert Lowth?</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, Keynes 1</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/2022-12/18NCN8%20%282022%29%20Tieken-Boon%20van%20Ostade%20on%20The%20Other%20Samuel%20Johnson.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=267984" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">18NCN8 (2022) Tieken-Boon van Ostade on The Other Samuel Johnson.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">261.7 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Thu, 29 Dec 2022 22:04:42 +0000 Christopher 2600 at Identifying the ‘Revd. Robt. Lowth’ in J. Sturges’s Letter to Mr. Cadell /node/2599 <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/2022-12/New%20College%20Archives%2C%20Oxford%2C%20NCA%20803.jpg.webp?itok=HrmwJ3QM" width="655" height="435" alt="°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Archives, Oxford, NCA 803" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Identifying the ‘Revd. Robt. Lowth’ in J. Sturges’s Letter to Mr. Cadell </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade</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">(2022): 18</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/422" hreflang="en">Robert Lowth</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/423" hreflang="en">Randal Keynes</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/74" hreflang="en">Archives</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/424" hreflang="en">John Sturges</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/425" hreflang="en">Thomas Cadell</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>All four of the published books by bishop and biblical critic Robert Lowth (1710–1787) are part of °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library’s outstanding Keynes Collection, and, amazingly, in multiple editions and reprints, posthumous ones included. There are as many as 31 copies of his grammar, 13 each of <em>De sacra poesi</em> and <em>Isaiah</em>, and four copies of <em>William of Wykeham</em>. But the Keynes Collection contains much more than these and similar books, and one particular if mysterious little gem is an undated letter by J. Sturges addressed to ‘Mr. Cadell, Strand, London’.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Archives, Oxford, NCA 803</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/2022-12/18NCN7%20%282022%29%20Tieken-Boon%20van%20Ostade%20on%20Sturges%E2%80%99s%20Letter.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=379833" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">18NCN7 (2022) Tieken-Boon van Ostade on Sturges’s Letter.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">370.93 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Thu, 29 Dec 2022 21:39:57 +0000 Christopher 2599 at