A 6th-century Greek and Latin manuscript of Acts that is believed to have been used by Bede survives and is now in the Bodleian Library ; it is known as the Codex Laudianus.

The 17th and 18th centuries include what is known as a golden age of libraries ; during this some of the more important libraries were founded in Europe, such as the Bodleian Library at Oxford, the British Museum Library in London, the Mazarine Library and the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, the Austrian National Library in Vienna, the National Central Library in Florence, the Prussian State Library in Berlin, the Załuski Library in Warsaw and the M. E.

* 1602 – The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public.

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.

* November 8 – The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public.

The first literary connection of Joseph of Arimathea with Britain had to wait for the ninth-century Life of Mary Magdalene attributed to Rabanus Maurus ( AD 766 – 856 ), Archbishop of Mainz ; however, the earliest authentic copy of the Maurus text is one housed in the Bodleian Library of Oxford University.

Swindon is home to the Bodleian Library's book depository, which contains of bookshelves.

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

Hawksmoor made a wooden model of his design which is in the Bodleian.

The Bodleian Library ( or ), the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in Britain is second in size only to the British Library.

The head of the Bodleian Library is known as " Bodley's Librarian ".

Thomas, an American, is also the first foreign librarian to run the Bodleian.

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.

( B ) Berry's Paradox, first mentioned in the Principia Mathematica as fifth of seven paradoxes, is credited to Mr. G. G. Berry of the Bodleian Library.

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.

Like the Bodleian Library at Oxford, the UU Library features chained books – although at Oxford this is done to protect the books from the students, whereas at UU it is done to protect the students from the books.

The high concentration of magical lore has warped the Library interior into a locus of L-Space where the concepts of distance and direction are only vaguely defined ( it is generally described as resembling an M. C. Escher pastiche of the Bodleian or the British Museum Reading Room ).

The area is also bounded on the left hand side by Convocation House, the Divinity School and the Bodleian Library, and on the right by Brasenose Lane.

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.

The original diaries are kept at Rhodes House ( the Bodleian Library ), Oxford, and contain differences in the paper used for certain entries as well as in the typewriter ribbon used, and there are oddities in the page numbering.

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.

This time was used mainly for the study of the Vedic manuscripts at the India Office and the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.

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.

Aubrey's mention of it ( 2:67, and Bodleian MS Aubr. 8, F. 63 ) comes from this prolusion, through Christopher Milton or Edward Phillips.

Acts 15: 22 – 24 from the 7th-century Codex Laudianus in the Bodleian Library, written in parallel columns of Latin and Greek language | Greek.

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

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.

Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1511, Ashmole Bestiary | The Ashmole Bestiary, Folio 21r, England ( Peterborough?

Bertrand Russell, the first to discuss the paradox in print, attributed it to G. G. Berry ( 1867 – 1928 ), a junior librarian at Oxford's Bodleian library, who had suggested the more limited paradox arising from the expression " the first undefinable ordinal ".

The Bodleian Manuscript of Jerome's Version of the Chronicle of Eusebius.

For example the words of " I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day " ( Roud 975 ) are known from a broadside in the Bodleian Library.

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.

), housed in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.

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

Examples of reference libraries include the British Library in London and the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.

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.

Translated from an Arabic manuscript in the Bodleian library at 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 MS. in the collection of the Bodleian Library, Tanner MS. 306, features a cast list of the amateur actors in the original production.

This one is identified as " The Great Pentacle " and appears in Bodleian Library Michael MS. 276, a 17th century Italian manuscript.

An important Italian manuscript is Bodleian Library Michael MS 276.

It was discovered at the Bodleian Library in Oxford by Michael Turner, a former curator and Head of Conservation at the Library.