Bodleian Library

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Works:	6,934 works in 12,393 publications in 7 languages and 110,802 library holdings
Genres:	History Criticism, interpretation, etc Poetry Exhibition catalogs Sermons Legends Codices (Law) Personal narratives Biographies Illustrated works
Roles:	Other, Editor, isb, Publisher, Creator, Organizer of meeting, Originator, Correspondent, sht, his, Contributor, Former owner, Recipient, Publishing director
Classifications:	PR1119, 296.172

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Most widely held works about Bodleian Library

Endymion Spring by Matthew Skelton( Book )
Transforming the Bodleian by Catriona Cannon( )
In the name of the Bodleian, and other essays by Augustine Birrell( Book )
History of the Bodleian Library, 1845-1945 by H. H. E Craster( Book )
Lollard sermons( Book )

Endymion Spring by Matthew Skelton( Recording )
Illuminated manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford by Bodleian Library( Book )
Treasures from the Bodleian Library by A. G Hassall( Book )
The Bodleian Library in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by I. G Philip( Book )
A discovery of witches by Deborah E Harkness( Recording )
Manuscripts in the Hatton and e Musaeo Collections, Bodleian Library, Oxford by Patrick J Horner( )
Catalogus impressorum librorum bibliothecæ Bodlejanæ in academia Oxoniensi : curâ & operâ Thomæ Hyde è Coll. Reginæ Oxon. Protobibliothecarii by Bodleian Library( )
The index of middle English prose by S. J Ogilvie-Thomson( )
A thirteenth-century preacher's handbook : studies in MS Laud Misc. 511 by Mary E O'Carroll( Book )
A letter sent by William Lavvd Archbishop of Canterburie : with divers manuscripts to the Vniversity of Oxford : which letter in respect it hath relation to this present Parliament is here inserted : together with the answer which the Vniversitie sent him wherein is specified their integrity as he is their chancellor : the tenor whereof ensues by William Laud( )
Reliquiae Bodleianae : or Some genuine remains of Sir Thomas Bodley. Containing his life, the first draught of the statutes of the publick library at Oxford, (in English) and a collection of letters to Dr. James, &c. Published from the originals in the said library by Thomas Bodley( )
Librorum manuscriptorum academiarum Oxoniensis & Cantabrigiensis : & celebrium per Angliam Hiberniamque bibliothecarum catalogus cum indice alphabetico by Edward Bernard( )
Renaissance rhetoric : a short-title catalogue of works on rhetorical theory from the beginning of printing to A.D. 1700, with special attention to the holdings of the Bodleian Library, Oxford : with a select basic bibliography of secondary works on Renaissance rhetoric by James Jerome Murphy( Book )
The Bodleian Library and its treasures, 1320-1700 by Bodleian Library( Book )
The Oxford collection of the drawings of Roger de Gaignières and the royal tombs of Saint-Denis by Elizabeth A. R Brown( Book )

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Most widely held works by Bodleian Library

Calendar of the Clarendon state papers preserved in the Bodleian Library by Bodleian Library( )

8 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 3,697 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Junius manuscript by Caedmon( Book )

4 editions published between 1931 and 1969 in English and held by 709 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Tolkien : maker of Middle-Earth by Catherine McIlwaine( Book )

2 editions published in 2018 in English and held by 532 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This richly illustrated book explores the huge creative endeavour behind Tolkien's enduring popularity. Lavishly illustrated with over 300 images of his manuscripts, drawings, maps and letters, the book traces the creative process behind his most famous literary works--'The Hobbit', 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Silmarillion' and reproduces personal photographs and private papers (some of which have never been seen before in print). Tolkien drew on his deep knowledge of medieval literature and language to inform his literary imagination. Six introductory essays cover some of the main themes in Tolkien's life and work including the influence of northern languages and legends on the creation of his own legendarium; his concept of 'Faerie' as a literary construct; the central importance of his invented languages in his fantasy writing; his visual imagination and its emergence in his artwork; and the encouragement he derived from the literary group known as the Inklings. This book brings together the largest collection of original Tolkien material ever assembled in a single volume. Drawing on the archives of the Tolkien collections at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, and Marquette University, Milwaukee, as well as private collections, this exquisitely produced catalogue draws together the worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien--scholarly, literary, creative and domestic--offering a rich and detailed understanding and appreciation of this extraordinary author. Exhibition: The Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, UK (01.06.-28.10.2018)

First-line index of English poetry, 1500-1800, in manuscripts of the Bodleian Library, Oxford by Margaret Crum( Book )

18 editions published between 1968 and 1969 in English and held by 520 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Manifold greatness : the making of the King James Bible( Book )

5 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 418 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This books tells the fascinating story of the creation and immediate afterlife of the first and most popular Bible in English. With over 60 illustrations of manuscripts, artifacts, and archival material, this beautiful book presents essays by leading scholars, including Diarmaid MacCulloch

Twenty-six political and other poems : (including 'Petty Job') from the Oxford mss. Digby 102 and Douce 322 by J Kail( Book )

21 editions published between 1904 and 2002 in English and English, Middle and held by 411 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Old English homilies from MS Bodley 343 by Bodleian Library( Book )

2 editions published in 1993 in English and held by 389 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Posthumous poems of Shelley; Mary Shelley's fair copy book: Bodleian MS. Shelley adds. d. 9, collated with the holographs and the printed texts by Percy Bysshe Shelley( Book )

5 editions published in 1969 in English and held by 385 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Laud Troy book by Early English Text Society( Book )

25 editions published between 1902 and 2002 in English, Middle and English and held by 380 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This volume was edited from the unique manuscript, Laud Misc. 595, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The manuscript dates to the early 15th century, though it cannot be the original. Parts I and II of this Middle-English text are republished here as one volume, accompanied with glosses though without introduction

The Bodleian library record by Bodleian Library( )

in English and held by 366 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Volcanoes : encounters through the ages by D. M Pyle( Book )

1 edition published in 2017 in English and held by 333 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

For centuries, volcanic eruptions have captured our imaginations. Whether as signposts to an underworld, beacons to ancient mariners, or as an extraordinary manifestation of the natural world, volcanoes have intrigued many people, who have left records of their encounters in letters, reports and diaries and through sketches and illustrations. This book tells the stories of volcanic eruptions around the world, using original illustrations and first-hand accounts to explore how our understanding of volcanoes has evolved through time. Written accounts include Pliny's description of the 79 CE eruption of Vesuvius, stories recounted by seventeenth-century seafarers, and reports of expeditions made by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century natural historians, including Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin. Illustrations range from fragments of scrolls, buried in the great eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii, to Athanasius Kircher's extraordinarily detailed sketches, made in the seventeenth century, to the spectacular London sunsets caused by Krakatoa's eruption in 1883. They also include the first photograph of a volcanic eruption and twenty-first-century imaging of Santorini. These varied and compelling accounts enrich our perspective on current studies of volcanoes and challenge us to think about how we might use our contemporary understanding of volcanology to prepare for the next big eruption

History of the holy rood-tree : a twelfth century version of the cross legend : with Notes on the orthography of the Ormulum (with a facsimile) and a Middle English Compassio Mariae by Arthur S Napier( Book )

13 editions published between 1894 and 1974 in English and English, Middle and held by 331 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow : the life and times of a slave trade captain by Hugh Crow( Book )

2 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 329 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Hugh Crow was the captain of a slave-trading vessel which made one of the last legal journeys across the Atlantic with its 'human cargo'. This is a first-hand account written by a staunch defender of the slave trade

Mapping Shakespeare's world by Peter Whitfield( Book )

2 editions published in 2015 in English and held by 318 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Shakespeare never set a play in his own Elizabethan London. From the castle in Elsinore where Hamlet avenges his father's death to Cleopatra's Alexandria at the height of the Roman Empire to the seaport town in Cyprus where we await the arrival of Othello, each of Shakespeare's plays is set in a time or space remote from his primary audience. Why is this? How much did the Bard and his contemporaries know about the foreign lands his characters often inhabit? What expectations did an audience have if the curtains rose on a play which claimed to take place in ancient Troy or the Pyrenean kingdom of Navarre in northern Spain? Mapping Shakespeare's World explores these questions with surprising results. It has often been said that setting is irrelevant to Shakespeare's plays -- that, wherever they are set, their enduring appeal lies in their ability to speak to broad questions of human nature. Peter Whitfield shows that, on the contrary, many of Shakespeare's locations were carefully chosen for their ability to convey subtle meanings an Elizabethan audience would have picked up on and understood. Through the use of paintings, drawings, contemporary maps and geographical texts, Whitfield suggests answers to such questions as where Illyria was located, why The Merry Wives of Windsor could only have taken place in Windsor, and how two utterly different comedies -- The Comedy of Errors and Pericles, Prince of Tyre -- both came to take place in ancient Ephesus

The Douce Apocalypse : picturing the end of the world in the Middle Ages by Nigel J Morgan( Book )

4 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 317 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

'The Douce Apocalypse' depicts the Revelation of St John and was made for Edward I c.1270. This title conveys the beauty of the original and the fascination of its contents, exploring its imagery, artistic creation and contemporary significance in the context of prophecies concerning the coming of the Antichrist

The chronicles of Jeraḥmeel; or, The Hebrew Bible historiale. Being a collection of apocryphal and pseudo-epigraphical books dealing with the history of the world from the creation to the death of Judas Maccabeus by Elʻazar ben Asher( Book )

13 editions published between 1899 and 1972 in English and held by 293 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Cáin Adamnáin; an old-Irish treatise on the law of Adamnan by Adamnan( )

5 editions published in 1905 in English and held by 291 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The victories of love by Coventry Patmore( )

3 editions published between 1878 and 2003 in English and held by 290 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This eBook version of Victories of Love presents the full text of this literary classic

The code of Maimonides by Moses Maimonides( Book )

9 editions published between 1962 and 1975 in English and Hebrew and held by 283 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Maimonides' monumental 14-volume code on Jewish law has had a profound influence on Jewish life since the Middle Ages. This lucid study is the first thorough literary-historical study of the Mishneh Torah. Twersky ... analyzes the reasons for the Code's composition, its relationship to Maimonides' other works, the milieu in which it was written, and illuminates the reasons for its lasting importance."--Library Journal

A late fifteenth-century dominical sermon cycle( Book )

1 edition published in 2012 in English, Middle and held by 282 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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