John Owen

Three Stapletons and Other Remarkable Acquisitions to ��Ƶ Library in 2024

Christopher — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 05:13:08 +0000

Three Stapletons and Other Remarkable Acquisitions to ��Ƶ Library in 2024

Christopher Skelton-Foord

Issue number

(2024): 22

Notes category

Francis Noel Clarke Mundy

William Somervile

Edward Perry Warren

Erich Maria Remarque

The earliest important imprints we have acquired for the library this year are three 16th- and early 17th-century volumes, by a priest and scholar whose erudition was much admired by Pope Clement VIII. Thomas Stapleton (1535–98), one of our college’s foremost theologians, was possibly named after St Thomas More—who was martyred under Henry VIII for refusing to avow royal over spiritual supremacy; More was executed just days before Stapleton’s birth. From Winchester ��Ƶ, Stapleton proceeded to ��Ƶ, where he was elected a fellow on 18 January 1553; five years later, in 1558, he was ordained a priest under Mary I. But within a couple of years, he had been forced to flee to the Low Countries, following Elizabeth I’s accession.

And, of course—we have been acquiring some remarkable modern books and archival documents too.

Nicola Howell Hawley, endpapers illustration to Andrew Caldecott’s Simul (2024)
��Ƶ Library, Oxford, NC/CAL

��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

22NCN8 (2024) Skelton-Foord on Acquisitions 2024.pdf1.59 MB

A Changing World: Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia from 1544—BT3.187.1(2)

Christopher — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 20:55:33 +0000

A Changing World: Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia from 1544—BT3.187.1(2)

William Shire

Issue number

(2021): 16

Notes category

Library Benefactors' Book

BT3.187.1(1)

Albert Krantz

Benefaction Book

Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia (1544) may be an attempt to describe all knowledge, but this knowledge becomes less and less exact the further one travels from Münster’s German homelands. As the descriptions focus on the faraway lands of Asia and Africa, monstrous races appear.

��Ƶ Library, Oxford, BT3.187.1(2)

��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

16NCN5 (2021) Shire on Cosmographia.pdf1.73 MB

Naps upon Parnassus: Some Attempts at Literary Humour in Elizabethan and Jacobean ��Ƶ

Christopher — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 12:49:26 +0000

Naps upon Parnassus: Some Attempts at Literary Humour in Elizabethan and Jacobean ��Ƶ

William Poole

Issue number

(2020): 13

Notes category

13NCN5 (2020) Poole on Literary Humour.pdf572.52 KB

John Owen

Three Stapletons and Other Remarkable Acquisitions to ������Ƶ Library in 2024

Three Stapletons and Other Remarkable Acquisitions to ������Ƶ Library in 2024

And, of course—we have been acquiring some remarkable modern books and archival documents too.

������Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

A Changing World: Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia from 1544—BT3.187.1(2)

A Changing World: Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia from 1544—BT3.187.1(2)

Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia (1544) may be an attempt to describe all knowledge, but this knowledge becomes less and less exact the further one travels from Münster’s German homelands. As the descriptions focus on the faraway lands of Asia and Africa, monstrous races appear.

������Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

Naps upon Parnassus: Some Attempts at Literary Humour in Elizabethan and Jacobean ������Ƶ

Naps upon Parnassus: Some Attempts at Literary Humour in Elizabethan and Jacobean ������Ƶ

Three Stapletons and Other Remarkable Acquisitions to ��Ƶ Library in 2024

Three Stapletons and Other Remarkable Acquisitions to ��Ƶ Library in 2024

��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

Naps upon Parnassus: Some Attempts at Literary Humour in Elizabethan and Jacobean ��Ƶ

Naps upon Parnassus: Some Attempts at Literary Humour in Elizabethan and Jacobean ��Ƶ