/ en /unique-and-distinctive-acquisitions-new-college-library-2023 <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/2023-12/New%20²ÝÁñÊÓƵ%20Rowing%20IV%2C%20Cloisters%2C%20New%20²ÝÁñÊÓƵ%20%281909%29%E2%80%94showing%20Ernest%20Victor%20Culme-Seymour%20%28second%20from%20left%29.jpg.webp?itok=kQxoOdvy" width="655" height="435" alt="²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Rowing IV, Cloisters, New College (1909)—showing Ernest Victor Culme-Seymour (second from left), NCA JCR/R/Culme-Seymour/23" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Unique and Distinctive Acquisitions to ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library in 2023 </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">(2023): 20</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/74" hreflang="en">Archives</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/536" hreflang="en">Thomas Harding</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/537" hreflang="en">George Bate</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/79" hreflang="en">Edward Young</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/538" hreflang="en">Thomas Ken</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/539" hreflang="en">Walter Montagu</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/540" hreflang="en">Sir Joseph Miles Clay</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/541" hreflang="en">Ernest Victor Culme-Seymour</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/300" hreflang="en">William Leonard Courtney</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/529" hreflang="en">John Fowles</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/542" hreflang="en">D. M. Thomas</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/543" hreflang="en">Owen Sheers</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/230" hreflang="en">Kate Mosse</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/544" hreflang="en">Duff Cooper</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/545" hreflang="en">John Julius Norwich</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>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 <em>An Answere to Maister Juelles Chalenge</em> (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 <em>Miscellanea Spiritualia: or, Devout Essaies</em> (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, <em>Elenchus Motuum nuperorum in Anglia</em> (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.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Rowing IV, Cloisters, New College (1909)—showing Ernest Victor Culme-Seymour (second from left)<br>²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Archives, Oxford, NCA JCR/R/Culme-Seymour/23</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/2023-12/20NCN10%20%282023%29%20Skelton-Foord%20on%20Acquisitions%20in%202023.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1730828" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">20NCN10 (2023) Skelton-Foord on Acquisitions in 2023.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.65 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Fri, 29 Dec 2023 02:09:49 +0000 Christopher 2928 at /node/2149 <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/2020-12/Portrait%20of%20William%20Leonard%20Courtney%20%28oil%20on%20canvass%29%20by%20Hubert%20von%20Herkomer_0.jpg.webp?itok=sWpEu5yL" width="655" height="435" alt="Portrait of William Leonard Courtney (oil on canvass) by Hubert von Herkomer" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> William Courtney and ‘the Woman Question’ </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Laura Marcus</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">(2020): 14</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/300" hreflang="en">William Leonard Courtney</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/301" hreflang="en">Janet E. Courtney</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/302" hreflang="en">Virginia Woolf</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/303" hreflang="en">Laura Marholm</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>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.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Portrait of William Leonard Courtney (oil on canvass) by Hubert von Herkomer<br> © Courtesy of the Warden and Scholars of ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Oxford</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, 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/2020-12/14NCN6%20%282020%29%20Marcus%20on%20Courtney.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=341701" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">14NCN6 (2020) Marcus on Courtney.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">333.69 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Thu, 31 Dec 2020 02:10:18 +0000 Christopher 2149 at