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Sebastiaan Verweij: ‘The eye of any deliberate reader’: John Donne and the...
Using the collator to compare books.Merton History of the Book Group and the Early Modern Literature Graduate Seminar 25 October 2011 from Edmund Christie White, Merton College Speaking in the...
View Article2012 Seminar on the History of the Book ; Will Poole, ‘John Fell’s New Year...
from Martha Repp The first in the seventeenth annual series of Oxford Seminars on the History of the Book, convened by Professor I.W.F. Maclean, was given at All Souls College, Oxford, on 20 January,...
View Article2012 Seminar on the History of the Book: Professor Raphaële Mouren, “The...
from Martha Repp The fifth in the 2012 series of the Oxford Seminars on the History of the Book was held at All Souls College, Oxford, on 17 February, 2012. Professor Raphaële Mouren of the École...
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Purchase of historical medical books
from Francesca Galligan, Rare Books, Dept. of Special Collections The Birmingham Medical Institute, established in 1875, offered a first part of its historical medical books at auction in April. The...
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Rainy weather …
This publication from 1758 should resolve our questions about the continuing rain. The new book of knowledge. Shewing the effects of the planets and other astronomical constellations; with the strange...
View ArticleTyrrell and Locke on Patriarcha non monarcha: Masterclass with Felix...
In an exciting conclusion to the autumn season of masterclasses, Felix Waldmann (Cambridge) spoke on ‘James Tyrrell, John Locke, and the text of Patriarcha non Monarcha (1681): the evidence from some...
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The Cadiz pirates
Elizabeth I (1533–1603)by Wilhelm Sonmans(c) Bodleian Libraries; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation Dr Anders Ingram (National University of Ireland, Hakluyt Edition Project) used copies of...
View ArticleCharles I’s travelling library
A spectacular travel-sized library from the 17th century is now in the Bodleian Library. .. read more [reblogged from http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/news/2014/dec-18]
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Stuarts Online and animated
A web resource for schools, Stuarts Online, featuring materials from the Bodleian and Ashmolean has launched a video narrated by David Mitchell. The Stuarts in Seven Minutes has been produced as part...
View ArticleHow the Bodleian Library collected playbooks: evidence from Library Records
Tara Lyons (Illinois State University) Sassoon Visiting Fellowship, Bodleian Libraries Through an examination of the Bodleian’s archive of its own history, the Library Records collection, Tara Lyons...
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