/ en /node/1982 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2019-12/New%20²ÝÁñÊÓƵ%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20NB.91.18%2C%20frontispiece.jpg.webp?itok=SDcu9q1x" width="655" height="435" alt="²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, NB.91.18, frontispiece" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> The Penitent’s Tale; or, New College Library’s Copy of The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717) </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Christopher Skelton-Foord</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2019): 12</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/80" hreflang="en">Library Antiquarian</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/52" hreflang="en">Library Manuscripts</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/250" hreflang="en">Alexander Pope</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/245" hreflang="en">MS 314</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/244" hreflang="en">Geoffrey Chaucer</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/61" hreflang="en">²ÝÁñÊÓƵ history</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library holds a fine edition of 1717 of Alexander Pope’s works, and it nicely illustrates a modern tale of redemption.&nbsp;A reader in our library purloined <em>c.</em> 1980 this copy’s splendid, engraved frontispiece portrait by George Vertue (1684–1756) of the poet, only to return the frontispiece anonymously on 18 October 2010—along with a note in which they confessed, ‘I’m thoroughly ashamed of myself, and I return it with apologies’.</h3> <h3>&nbsp;</h3> <p><em>The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope&nbsp;</em>(London, 1717)<br> ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, NB.91.18</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2020-10/12NCN8%20%282019%29%20Skelton-Foord%20on%20Alexander%20Pope.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1118519" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">12NCN8 (2019) Skelton-Foord on Alexander Pope.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.07 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Sun, 29 Dec 2019 06:06:16 +0000 Christopher 1982 at