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Author : John Henry Mee
Publisher : London : J. Lane ; New York : John Lane
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Oldest Music Room in Europe written by John Henry Mee and published by London : J. Lane ; New York : John Lane. This book was released on 1911 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Holywell room.
Author : George Philip Krapp
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351338706
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Revival: The Junius Manuscript (1931) written by George Philip Krapp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first volume in a collective edition, the plan of which includes all the surviving records of Anglo-Saxon poetry. The main body of Anglo-Saxon poetry as it has come down to us is contained in four important miscellany manuscripts, the Junius Manuscript, the Vercelli Book, the Exeter Book, and the Beowulf Manuscript, each of which will constitute a separate volume in this edition. The remaining minor and more or less scattered examples of Anglo-Saxon poetry will be grouped together, in a volume of volumes of their own.
Author : Mary Clapinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781851245444
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (454 download)
Download or read book A Brief History of the Bodleian Library written by Mary Clapinson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a library founded over four hundred years ago grow to become the world-renowned institution it is today, home to over thirteen million items? From its foundation by Sir Thomas Bodley in 1598 to the opening of the Weston Library in 2015, this illustrated account shows how the Library's history has been involved with the British monarchy and political events throughout the centuries. The history of the Library is also a history of collectors and collections, and this book traces the story of major donations and purchases, making use of the Library's own substantial archives to show how it came to house key items such as early confirmations of the Magna Carta, Shakespeare's First Folio, and the manuscript of Jane Austen's earliest writings, among many others. This revised edition brings the history of the Bodleian Library up to the present moment. Beautifully illustrated with prints, portraits, manuscripts, and archival material, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of libraries and collections.
Author : David Vaisey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781851244775
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (447 download)
Download or read book Bodleian Library Treasures written by David Vaisey and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its founding, the Bodleian Library has become home to treasures from throughout history and every corner of the globe. From among this remarkable and historically rich collection, David Vaisey has selected nearly one hundred treasures with a particularly fascinating story to tell. Rare books, music, manuscripts, ephemera, and maps, many of the treasures photographed and described for this lavish volume are well-loved around the world, from Jane Austen's manuscript of The Watsons to notebooks created by the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a map of Narnia drawn by C. S. Lewis, and the original manuscript of the renowned children's work The Wind in the Willows. Others are known for their beauty or historical significance, including the Gutenberg Bible, Magna Carta, and the extraordinary medieval manuscript the Douce Apocalypse. Still others hold poignant stories like the small handwritten book presented as a New Year's present in 1545 to Katherine Parr by an eleven-year-old stepdaughter who would later become Queen Elizabeth I. Vaisey brings these and other treasures together in chronological order, showcasing the Bodleian Library's renowned collections.
Author : Bodleian Library
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9780851157535
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (575 download)
Download or read book Bestiary written by Bodleian Library and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Bestiary was created during the 13th century. The 136 illustrations afford insight into medieval interpretations of natural history, travellers' tales and mysticism. They are accompanied by a translation of the original Latin text.
Author : Richard Bruce Parkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781851245857
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (458 download)
Download or read book Tutankhamun written by Richard Bruce Parkinson and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1922, as Egypt became an independent nation, the tomb of the young king Tutankhamun was discovered at Luxor, the first known intact royal burial from ancient Egypt. The excavation of the small but crowded tomb by Howard Carter and his team generated enormous media interest and was famously photographed by Harry Burton. These photographs, along with letters, plans, drawings and diaries, are part of an archive created by the excavators and presented to the Griffith Institute, University of Oxford after Carter's death. These historic images and records present a vivid and first-hand account of the discovery, of the spectacular variety of the king's burial goods and of the remarkable work that went into documenting and conserving them. The archive enables a nuanced and inclusive view of the complexities of both the ancient burial and the excavation, including often overlooked Egyptian members of the archaeological team. This selection of fifty key items by the staff of the Griffith Institute provides an accessible and authoritative overview of the archive, drawing on new research on the collection and giving an intimate insight into the records of one of the world's most famous archaeological discoveries.
Author : Robert Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Anatomy of Melancholy written by Robert Burton and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Dunn Macray
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A. D. 1598-A. D. 1867 written by William Dunn Macray and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bodleian Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 910 pages
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Download or read book Calendar of Charters and Rolls Preserved in the Bodleian Library written by Bodleian Library and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Master of Mary of Burgundy
Publisher : New York, G. Braziller [1970]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Book of Hours for Engelbert of Nassau written by Master of Mary of Burgundy and published by New York, G. Braziller [1970]. This book was released on 1970 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The happiest, sweetest, and liveliest little book imaginable."--John Canaday.
Author : Rebecca Abrams
Publisher : Bodleian Library
ISBN 13 : 9781851245024
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries written by Rebecca Abrams and published by Bodleian Library. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing four centuries of collecting and 1000 years of Jewish history, this book brings together extraordinary Hebrew manuscripts and rare books from the Bodleian Library and Oxford colleges. Highlights of the collections include a fragment of Maimonides' autograph draft of the Mishneh Torah; the earliest dated fragment of the Talmud, exquisitely illuminated manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible; stunning festival prayerbooks and one of the oldest surviving Jewish seals in England. Lavishly illustrated essays by experts in the field bring to life the outstanding works contained in the collections, as well as the personalities and diverse motivations of their original collectors, who include Archbishop William Laud, John Selden, Edward Pococke, Robert Huntington, Venetian Jesuit Matteo Canonici, Benjamin Kennicott and Rabbi David Oppenheim. Saved for posterity by religious scholarship, intellectual rivalry and political ambition, these extraordinary collections also detail the consumption and circulation of knowledge across the centuries, forming a social and cultural history of objects moved across borders, from person to person. Together, they offer a fascinating journey through Jewish intellectual and social history from the tenth to the twentieth century.
Author : Mark Cruse
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843842807
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Illuminating the Roman D'Alexandre written by Mark Cruse and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survey of one of the most important surviving medieval manuscripts reveals much of its contemporary cultural, literary and social milieu. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264 is one of the most famous and most sumptuous illuminated manuscripts of the entire Middle Ages. Completed in 1344 in Tournai, in what is now Belgium, the manuscript preserves the fullest version of the interpolated Old French Roman d'Alexandre (Romance of Alexander the Great), and some of the most vivid illustrations of any medieval romance, ranking amongst the greatest achievements of the illuminator's art, its borders in particular offering a panorama of medieval society and imagination. A celebration of courtliness, a commemoration of urban chivalry, a mirror for the prince instructing in the arts of rule, and a meditation on crusade, it manifests the extraordinary richness and creativity of late medieval manuscript culture. This study examines the manuscript as a monumental expression of the beliefs and social practices of its day, placing it in its historical and artistic context; it also analyzes its later reception in England, where the addition of a Middle English Alexander poem and of Marco Polo's Voyages reflects changing concepts of language, historiography, and geography. Mark Cruse is Assistant Professor of French, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University.
Author : Kate Diston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781851244843
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (448 download)
Download or read book Rare & Wonderful written by Kate Diston and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its foundation in 1860, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History's world-renowned collections have become a key centre for scientific study and its much-loved building an important icon for visitors from around the world.The museum now holds over seven million scientific specimens including five million insects, half a million fossil specimens and half a million zoological specimens. It also holds an extensive collection of archival material relating to important naturalists such as Charles Darwin, William Smith, William Jones and James Charles Dale. This lavishly illustrated book features highlights from the collections ranging from the iconic Dodo (the only soft tissue specimen of the species in existence) and the giant tuna (brought back from Madeira on a perilous sea crossing in 1846) to crabs collected by Darwin during his voyage on the Beagle, David Livingstone's tsetse fly specimens and Mary Anning's ichthyosaur. Also featured are the first described dinosaur bones, found in a small Oxfordshire village, the Red Lady of Paviland (who was in fact a man who lived 29,000 years ago) and a meteorite from the planet Mars.Each item tells a unique story about natural history, about the history of science, about collecting, or about the museum itself. They give a unique insight into the extraordinary wealth of information and the fascinating tales that can be gleaned from these collections, both from the past and for the future.
Author : Catherine McIlwaine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781851244850
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (448 download)
Download or read book Tolkien written by Catherine McIlwaine and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue published for the exhibition at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (2018), and at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York (2019).
Author : Falconer Madan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Bodleian Library at Oxford written by Falconer Madan and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bodleian Library
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ISBN 13 : 9781851245260
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (452 download)
Download or read book Korean Treasures written by Bodleian Library and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many important and valuable manuscripts, rare books, and artefacts related to Korea have been acquired by donations throughout the long history of the Bodleian Library and the museums of the University of Oxford. However, due to an early lack of specialist knowledge in this area, many of these Korean items were largely neglected. This publication uncovers these treasures and presents them together in a single volume for the first time. Notable items include the court painting scroll of the funeral procession of King Yongjo (1694-1776); a presentation edition of a book given by King Yongjo to his son-in-law; a group of documents issued by Emperor Kojong (1852-1919) between 1885 and 1886 to confer various titles to his civil and military officials; a sundial made by the famous maker Kang Yun (1830-98) for Emperor Kojong; a ceramic dish made and signed by Princess Yi Pangja (1901-89) as well as a rare example of a suit of armour, an ornate helmet of the early sixteenth century, a general's quiver and arrows, and many more. -- Book jacket.
Author : Bodleian Library Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780900177385
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Kennicott Bible written by Bodleian Library Staff and published by . This book was released on 1957-01-01 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
