A 14th-century manuscript, Book of Prayers, in the Francis Douce collection in the Bodleian Library at Oxford contains a drawing in which two persons are shown, but they bowl to no mark.

John Ernest Grabe found an otherwise unreported saying of Jesus, attributed to the Apostle Barnabas, amongst the Greek manuscripts in the Baroccian collection in the Bodleian Library ; which he speculated might be a quotation from this lost gospel ; and John Toland claimed to have identified a corresponding phrase when he examined the surviving Italian manuscript of the Gospel of Barnabas in Amsterdam before 1709.

The original wood blocks are now in the collection of the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

In November, 1883, Fortnam wrote to Arthur asking for his assistance in locating some letters in the Bodleian Library that would help to validate a noted ring in his collection, about which he had written.

The Bodleian Admissions Office has amassed a large collection of translations of the declaration allowing those who are not native English speakers to recite it in their first language.

When John Selden died in 1654, he left the Bodleian his large collection of books and manuscripts.

Another surviving manuscript from Leofric's collection is a Gospel book written in Latin now in the Bodleian Library, which was probably acquired by Leofric while he was on the continent, as the manuscript was originally written for a Breton monastery.

The outraged authorities immediately suppressed the collection, and only a few copies survived, three of which found their way into the College Library over the years, and one into the Bodleian Library.

Burton subsequently managed to recover several of the items given to Hales, and in 1632 and 1642-3 donated most of the collection — comprising the Collectanea, De scriptoribus and several of the Itinerary notebooks — to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, where the volumes remain.

A collection of 242 coins was given by his widow, at his desire, to the Bodleian Library after his death.

In 1858 the whole collection was transferred to the Bodleian, where 25 volumes of Wood's manuscripts had been since 1690.

His valuable collection of books and manuscripts is in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.

However it is not in a catalogue of Allen's library of 1622, and was not in the collection of Allen's manuscripts that was presented to the Bodleian Library by Sir Kenelm Digby in 1634.

Manuscript copies of all three plays were found in the manuscript collection of Thomas Hearne preserved in the Bodleian Library by the Rev.

The original wood blocks are now in the collection of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England.

Ashmole embarked on further catalogues, including one of the Roman coin collection of the Bodleian Library, which he finally completed in 1666 after eight years of work.

Two-thirds of his library now resides in the Bodleian at Oxford ; its separation from the museum collection in the Victorian era contributed to the belief that Ashmole designed the museum around the Tradescant collection, rather than his own.

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Wilkinson's papers are now held in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and form an invaluable resource to some of the earliest recorded states ( dating to 1821 to 1856, before the advent of widespread tourism and collection ) of many Egyptian monuments.

Category: Bodleian Library collection

Category: Bodleian Library collection

Oxford University's major exhibit " Citizen Milton " at the Bodleian Library ( to which Milton himself personally donated copies of many of his works ), honoring Milton's 400th birthday, used one of Lindall's artworks for Paradise Lost from the Nii Foundation collection.

Douce: manuscripts from the collection of Francis Douce ( 1757-1834 ) at the Bodleian Library

The building seats between 800 and 1000 people and is on the grounds of part of the Bodleian Library adjacent to Broad Street.

It was thought that the new building would be an extension westwards of the Selden End of the Bodleian Library.

After the Radcliffe Science Library moved into another building, the Radcliffe Camera became home to additional reading rooms of the Bodleian Library.

In 1863, when the building had become a reading-room of the Bodleian, the arches were glazed, a new entrance was created on the north side in place of a circular window, with stone steps leading up to the entrance.

By the 1920s, the Library needed further expansion space, and in 1937 building work began on the New Bodleian building, opposite the Clarendon Building on the north-east corner of Broad Street.

* Bodleian Library at Oxford University-Grant for a building to house five million volumes ;

The Arabic manuscript was discovered in 1665 by Edward Pococke the orientalist, and preserved in the Bodleian Library.

While he was at Cambridge, Abendana sold Hebrew books to the Bodleian Library of Oxford, and in 1689 he took a teaching position in Magdalen College.

The unseen and unheard Song of Roland had become a dim memory, until the antiquary Francisque Michel transcribed a worn copy in the Bodleian Library and put it into print in 1837 ; it was timely: French interest in the national epic revived among the Romantic generation.

It was published in two volumes, 1708-1718, and long enjoyed a great reputation ; unfortunately Ockley took as his main authority an MS. in the Bodleian of Pseudo-Al-Waqidi's Futúh al-Shám, which is rather historical romance than history.

In October 2008 Bennett announced that he was donating his entire archive of working papers, unpublished manuscripts, diaries and books to the Bodleian Library, stating that it was a gesture of thanks repaying a debt he felt he owed to the British welfare state that had given him educational opportunities which his humble family background would otherwise never have afforded.

In 1975 it was handed over to the Bodleian Library, and now provides office and meeting space for senior members of staff.

Between 1909 and 1912 an underground book store of two floors was constructed beneath the north lawn of the library with a tunnel connecting it with the Bodleian, invisibly linking the two library buildings, something envisaged by Henry Acland in 1861.

The library was formally re-opened on 8 November 1602 under the name “ Bodleian Library ” ( officially Bodley's Library ).

Until the establishment of the British Museum in 1753 the Bodleian was effectively the national library of England.

In 1975 it was handed over to the Bodleian Library, and now provides office and meeting space for senior members of staff.

The New Bodleian was designed by architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.

A tunnel under Broad Street connects the Old and New Bodleian buildings, and contains a pedestrian walkway, a mechanical book conveyor and a pneumatic Lamson tube system which was used for book orders until an electronic automated stack request system was introduced in 2002.

Tolkien had studied philology at Oxford and eventually became a professor, he was very familiar with the Red Book of Hergest which is kept at the Bodleian on behalf of Jesus College.

Osler was a strong supporter of libraries and served on the library committees at most of the universities at which he taught and was a member of the Board of Curators of the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

It was not clearly ascribed to Hall by name until 1674, when Thomas Hyde, the librarian of the Bodleian, identified " Mercurius Britannicus " with Joseph Hall, as is now accepted.

In 2006, Professionals was won by staff of the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford.