/ en /unique-and-distinctive-acquisitions-new-college-library-2023 Unique and Distinctive Acquisitions to ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library in 2023 Christopher Skelton-Foord Issue number (2023): 20 Notes category Library Antiquarian Archives Thomas Harding George Bate Edward Young Thomas Ken Walter Montagu Sir Joseph Miles Clay Ernest Victor Culme-Seymour William Leonard Courtney John Fowles D. M. Thomas Owen Sheers Kate Mosse Duff Cooper John Julius Norwich

Ongoing collection development activity ensures we do not rest on our laurels, and 2023 saw us procure important antiquarian items that speak to times of religious and political conflict. Chief among them are: a rare copy of An Answere to Maister Juelles Chalenge (1564) by ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Jesuit theologian Thomas Harding (1516–1572), who fled to Louvain for refuge following the accession of Elizabeth I; a donation by a generous alumnus of Miscellanea Spiritualia: or, Devout Essaies (1648) by Benedictine abbot Walter Montagu (1603?–1677), who as a recusant was banished, then later imprisoned in the Tower of London; a copy of a defence of Charles I during the Civil War period, Elenchus Motuum nuperorum in Anglia (1649), by ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ man George Bate (1608–1668), who extraordinarily was chief physician successively to Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, and Charles II; and four books (at auction) by college fellow Thomas Ken (1637–1711), who refused to comply with the attempts of James II to grant the realm religious freedom and suspend enforced conformity to the Church of England.

 

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Rowing IV, Cloisters, New College (1909)—showing Ernest Victor Culme-Seymour (second from left)
²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Archives, Oxford, NCA JCR/R/Culme-Seymour/23

 

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library and Archives, Oxford

20NCN10 (2023) Skelton-Foord on Acquisitions in 2023.pdf1.65 MB ]]> Fri, 29 Dec 2023 02:09:49 +0000 Christopher 2928 at /node/2149 William Courtney and ‘the Woman Question’ Laura Marcus Issue number (2020): 14 Notes category William Leonard Courtney Janet E. Courtney Virginia Woolf Laura Marholm

In recent years, the portrait of a man with a fine Edwardian moustache has looked down on us as we were seated at High Table in Hall. The subject, it transpired, was the writer, and former ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ fellow, William Leonard Courtney, and the artist was Hubert von Herkomer (1849–1914), a British painter born in Bavaria, Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford from 1885–94, and the first president of the Oxford Art Society, established in 1891.

 

Portrait of William Leonard Courtney (oil on canvass) by Hubert von Herkomer
© Courtesy of the Warden and Scholars of ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Oxford

 

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Oxford

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