Bodleian Library

Overview

Works:	4,598 works in 8,804 publications in 5 languages and 93,483 library holdings
Genres:	History Exhibition catalogs Criticism, interpretation, etc Catalogs Personal narratives Biographies Illustrated works Periodicals Manuscripts Personal correspondence
Roles:	isb, Other, Editor, Publisher, his, Correspondent, sht, Recipient, Organizer of meeting, Former owner
Classifications:	ND2897.O93, 027.742

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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 )
Illuminated manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford by Bodleian Library( Book )

Endymion Spring by Matthew Skelton( Recording )
Manuscripts in the Hatton and e Musaeo Collections, Bodleian Library, Oxford by Patrick J Horner( )
Treasures from the Bodleian Library by A. G Hassall( Book )
A discovery of witches by Deborah E Harkness( Recording )
The Bodleian Library in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by I. G Philip( Book )
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 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( )
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 )
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( )
Vicesimo octavo Ianuarij, 1611. nono regni regis Iacobi : present, the master, wardens, and assistants of the Company of Stationers by England) Stationers' Company (London( )
The Bodleian Library and its treasures, 1320-1700 by Bodleian Library( Book )
Appendix ad catalogum librorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, qui prodiit anno Domini 1620 by Bodleian Library( )
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( )

5 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 3,351 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

1 edition published in 2018 in English and held by 550 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 )

17 editions published between 1968 and 1969 in English and held by 515 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

3 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

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

1 edition published in 2017 in English and held by 341 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

The Bodleian library record by Bodleian Library( )

in English and held by 339 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 320 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 )

2 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 310 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 victories of love by Coventry Patmore( )

3 editions published between 1878 and 2003 in English and held by 291 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

Fine bindings 1500-1700 from Oxford libraries : catalogue of an exhibition by Bodleian Library( Book )

10 editions published in 1968 in English and held by 278 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Al final del texto: 52 laminas sobre diferentes tipos de encuadernaciones entre 1500-1700 -- indice : p. 137-144

Catalogue of the collection of medieval manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian Library, Oxford by James P.R. Lyell by Albinia C De la Mare( Book )

5 editions published in 1971 in English and held by 264 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Anglo-Saxon illumination in Oxford libraries by Bodleian Library( Book )

10 editions published in 1970 in English and Undetermined and held by 257 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Magical tales : myth, legend and enchantment in children's books by Bodleian Library( Book )

3 editions published in 2013 in English and held by 256 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A faun carrying an umbrella; a hobbit who lives in a hole; a mysterious name, Lyra; an ill-treated schoolboy with a scar and a secret. Children's fantasy books often begin with resonant images. However, they also begin in an author's reading practices. How do children's authors incorporate myths and legends into their work? And how do myths and legends change as a result? In this illustrated collection of essays a team of academic experts trace the magical tales from Norse myth, Arthurian legend and medieval literature which have inspired the finest writers for children, including C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Alan Garner. Drawing on collections of manuscripts and rare books in the Bodleian Library, additional chapters put the spotlight on spell books, grimoires and books that do magic, as well as exploring stunning examples of pop-up books, harlequinades and concertina panoramas from the Opie Collection of Children's Literature. Other writers under discussion include children's authors of the Victorian era, such as George MacDonald, Rudyard Kipling and E. Nesbit, and twentieth-century writers Susan Cooper, Diana Wynne Jones and Philip Pullman. Through wide-ranging analysis these essays show how literature and tales from the Middle Ages and earlier still have been reinterpreted for each generation and continue to have a profound impact on writers of fantasy books for children today

Supplementary catalogue of Turkish manuscripts in the Bodleian Library : with reprint of the 1930 catalogue by H. Ethé by Günay Kut( )

4 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 240 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In 1930 the Clarendon Press published a Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindustani, and Pushtu MSS in the Bodleian Library. Part 2 of this catalogue included all Turkish MSS acquired before 1900, compiled by H. Ethe (out of print since 1958). A supplementary catalogue has now been compiled by Professor Gunay Kut, Kemal Ataturk Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford 1989-90, which contains all Turkish MSS acquired by the Bodleian Library since 1900. Both the supplementary catalogue (approximately 356 entries) and a reprint of the original catalogue (approximately 280 entries) are issued as one volume, with an introduction by Professor Kut, an explanation of the numbering to be used, and a romanization table. The volume will contain fully cross-referenced name and title indexes covering Ethe as well as the supplementary catalogue. The entries are classified under subjects such as the Koran, Sufism, Islamic history and legend, jurisprudence, history, biography, medicine, botany, geography, divans and mesnevis, encyclopedias, dictionaries and grammars: the catalogue throws light on almost all scholarly aspects of the Turkish world

The Shelley correspondence in the Bodleian library; letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley and others, mainly unpublished, from the collection presented to the library by Lady Shelley in 1892 by Percy Bysshe Shelley( Book )

5 editions published between 1926 and 1976 in English and held by 221 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The ladies library : ... Written by a lady. Published by Mr. Steele by George Berkeley( )

1 edition published in 1714 in English and held by 213 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Shelley's prose in the Bodleian manuscripts by Percy Bysshe Shelley( Book )

7 editions published in 1910 in English and held by 210 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Bodleian Library : a subject guide to the collections by Bodleian Library( Book )

2 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 207 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This is the first systematic subject guide to the holdings of the oldest and largest academic library in Great Britain. The result of efforts by forty past and present Bodleian staff specialists, the book describes the Library's current collections in the historical context of its four hundred years of acquisitions."--Jacket

Early Bodleian music; sacred & secular songs, together with other MS. compositions in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, ranging from about A.D. 1185 to about A.D. 1505 by John Stainer( )

18 editions published between 1901 and 1967 in 5 languages and held by 203 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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