/ en /ms-383-and-margoliouth-mark-return-arabic-new-college-oxford <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/2024-12/New%20²ÝÁñÊÓƵ%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20MS%20383%2C%20ff.%201v%E2%80%932r.jpg.webp?itok=UZEqPnR6" width="655" height="435" alt="²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 383, ff. 1v–2r" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> MS 383 and Margoliouth: To Mark the Return of Arabic to ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Oxford </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Naide Gedikli Gorali &amp; Jessica Rahardjo &amp; 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">(2024): 22</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/52" hreflang="en">Library Manuscripts</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/607" hreflang="en">MS 383</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/608" hreflang="en">Arabic</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/609" hreflang="en">David Samuel Margoliouth</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/610" hreflang="en">Qur'an</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/611" hreflang="en">Ottoman Turkish</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>2024 has seen the welcome revival of Arabic as a subject for undergraduate study at ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ after the subject had been discontinued for years. The current librarian has chosen to mark this by acquiring for the collections a fine, portable manuscript prayer book in Arabic (and Ottoman Turkish) dating from the very early 19th century. Our new MS 383 is now thus a signal juncture in the college’s history as the inaugural Margoliouth Fellow in Arabic spearheads Arabic’s revival here. That fellowship is named after a former student and fellow of our college, one of the most illustrious British orientalists in recent history.<br>&nbsp;</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 383, ff. 1v–2r</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/2024-12/22NCN6%20%282024%29%20Gedikli%20Gorali%2C%20Rahardjo%2C%20%26%20Skelton-Foord%20on%20MS%20383.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1817776" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">22NCN6 (2024) Gedikli Gorali, Rahardjo, &amp; Skelton-Foord on MS 383.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.73 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Tue, 31 Dec 2024 04:48:50 +0000 Christopher 3259 at /botanist-warden-lunatic-fatal-prepossession-new-college-ms-382-context <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/2024-12/New%20²ÝÁñÊÓƵ%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20MS%20382%2C%20f.%206r%20%28list%20of%20characters%29.jpg.webp?itok=8NsOhCqa" width="655" height="435" alt="²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 382, f. 6r (list of characters)" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Botanist, Warden, Lunatic: ‘The Fatal Prepossession’ (²ÝÁñÊÓƵ MS 382) in Context </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">(2024): 22</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/52" hreflang="en">Library Manuscripts</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/604" hreflang="en">Charles Abbot</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/198" hreflang="en">John Oglander</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/605" hreflang="en">William Anthony Glynn</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/606" hreflang="en">MS 382</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/78" hreflang="en">18thC history</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/163" hreflang="en">19thC 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>In April 2024 I acquired from a West Country antiquarian bookdealer a late 18th-century holograph manuscript volume, produced in the West Country by a celebrated ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ fellow also hailing from that region. A gilt-tooled, tree-calf bound quarto volume, its 113 paper leaves contain in a cursive script (appearance indicates a fair copy) three apparently unpublished literary works by him—and one since published—dedicated to the warden of ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Oxford.&nbsp;</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 382, f. 6r (list of characters)</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/2025-01/22NCN5%20%282024%29%20Skelton-Foord%20on%20MS%20382.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=728745" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">22NCN5 (2024) Skelton-Foord on MS 382.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">711.67 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Tue, 31 Dec 2024 04:35:45 +0000 Christopher 3258 at /medieval-monster-mash-fantastical-creatures-new-college-librarys-manuscripts-twelfth-fourteenth <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/2024-12/New%20²ÝÁñÊÓƵ%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20MS%2034%2C%20f.%2077r.jpg.webp?itok=vIWaTjJU" width="655" height="435" alt="²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 34, f. 77r" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> A Medieval Monster Mash: Fantastical Creatures in ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library’s Manuscripts from the Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Jessica Hodgkinson</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">(2024): 22</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/52" hreflang="en">Library Manuscripts</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/339" hreflang="en">William de Brailes</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/340" hreflang="en">MS 322</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/595" hreflang="en">MS 34</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/399" hreflang="en">Boethius</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/596" hreflang="en">MS 264</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/597" hreflang="en">MS 255</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/598" hreflang="en">MS 116</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/599" hreflang="en">MS 134</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/600" hreflang="en">MS 174</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>Fantastical creatures and mythical monsters abound in medieval manuscripts. ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library’s spectacular collection of manuscripts plays host to a wide variety of weird and wonderful beings. As we draw upon the field of ‘monster studies’, what can these fantastical creatures reveal about the people who made and used the volumes in which these creatures are found?</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 34, f. 77r</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/2024-12/22NCN2%20%282024%29%20Hodgkinson%20on%20Medieval%20Monster%20Mash.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1954558" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">22NCN2 (2024) Hodgkinson on Medieval Monster Mash.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.86 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Tue, 31 Dec 2024 04:08:50 +0000 Christopher 3256 at /bede-and-bernard-birds-and-beasts-exploration-illuminated-initials-new-college-ms-308 <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/2024-12/New%20²ÝÁñÊÓƵ%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20MS%20308%2C%20f.%205r.jpg.webp?itok=ZVlyOB3E" width="655" height="435" alt="²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 308, f. 5r" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Bede and Bernard, Birds and Beasts: An Exploration of the Illuminated Initials of ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ MS 308 </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Antje G. Frotscher</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">(2024): 22</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/52" hreflang="en">Library Manuscripts</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/593" hreflang="en">MS 308</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/594" hreflang="en">The Venerable Bede</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/627" hreflang="en">Bodleian Library</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/628" hreflang="en">British Library</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/629" hreflang="en">National Library of Wales</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/630" hreflang="en">Pembroke ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Oxford</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’s 12th-century Bede manuscript might be better described not as a masterpiece of Cistercian insular art, but rather as an astonishing collection of no less than 192 miniature masterpieces. How does our beautifully illuminated MS 308 relate to five other Bede manuscripts—one at The British Library, two at the Bodleian, one at Pembroke ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Oxford, and one at the National Library of Wales?</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 308, f. 5r</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/2024-12/22NCN1%20%282024%29%20Frotscher%20on%20MS%20308.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1363875" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">22NCN1 (2024) Frotscher on MS 308.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.3 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Tue, 31 Dec 2024 03:56:14 +0000 Christopher 3255 at /newly-acquired-literary-manuscript-ms-381-autograph-copy-cyril-hares-when-wind-blows-1949 <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/2024-07/New%20²ÝÁñÊÓƵ%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20MS%20381%2C%20f.%2048r%20%5Bdetail%5D.jpg.webp?itok=t5vLu0pM" width="655" height="435" alt="²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 381, f. 48r [detail]" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> A Newly Acquired Literary Manuscript, MS 381: The Autograph Copy of Cyril Hare’s When the Wind Blows (1949) </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">(2024): 21</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/463" hreflang="en">Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/462" hreflang="en">Cyril Hare</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/586" hreflang="en">MS 381</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/427" hreflang="en">Letters</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 alumnus, Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark (1900–1958), is better known as the murder mystery writer—one of the luminaries of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction—who went by the penname ‘Cyril Hare’. &nbsp;Seventy-five years since the first publication of Cyril Hare’s <em>When the Wind Blows</em>, I am delighted to be adding to our library’s collections the original holograph manuscript of this novel—now ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library’s MS 381.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 381, f. 48r [detail]</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/2024-08/21NCN9%20%282024%29%20Skelton-Foord%20on%20Hare.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=921109" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">21NCN9 (2024) Skelton-Foord on Hare.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">899.52 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 29 Jul 2024 20:13:38 +0000 Christopher 3153 at /who-gave-same-their-daughter-identifying-ownership-new-college-oxfords-books-hours <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/2024-07/MS%20323%20f.%20118v.jpg.webp?itok=IUuxe2l_" width="655" height="435" alt="²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 323, f. 118v [detail]" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> ‘who gave the same to their daughter . . .’: Identifying Ownership of ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Oxford’s Books of Hours </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Caitlín Kane</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">(2024): 21</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/565" hreflang="en">Books of Hours</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/249" hreflang="en">MS 160</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/566" hreflang="en">MS 369</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/567" hreflang="en">MS 371</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/568" hreflang="en">MS 372</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/569" hreflang="en">MS 323</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/570" hreflang="en">MS 310</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 houses a remarkable collection of no fewer than seven books of hours within its manuscript collections. &nbsp;These books of hours serve not only as religious texts, but also as windows into the personal devotions and family histories of their time, and thus deserve further scholarly attention. &nbsp;The large number of personal touches, both intentionally written and worn away through use, allow us an opportunity to feel backwards and think about how these individuals, named or anonymous, used and appreciated these books as treasured objects, family records, connections to the divine, and, sometimes, as scrap paper.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 323, f. 118v [detail]</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/2024-08/21NCN3%20%282024%29%20Kane%20on%20Books%20of%20Hours.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1234406" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">21NCN3 (2024) Kane on Books of Hours.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.18 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 29 Jul 2024 17:23:03 +0000 Christopher 3147 at /mappa-mundi-oxford-new-college-ms-274-and-aristotelian-theory-elements <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/Trinity%20²ÝÁñÊÓƵ%20Library%2C%20Cambridge%2C%20MS%20R.9.23%2C%20f.%2060v.jpg.webp?itok=TGoyn4Mv" width="655" height="435" alt="Trinity ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Cambridge, MS R.9.23, f. 60v [detail]" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> The Mappa Mundi in Oxford, New College, MS 274 and the Aristotelian Theory of Elements </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Alfred Hiatt</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/88" hreflang="en">Library Manuscript</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/510" hreflang="en">MS 274</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/511" hreflang="en">Pliny the Elder</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/512" hreflang="en">Mappa Mundi</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/412" hreflang="en">Maps</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/513" hreflang="en">Macrobius</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/514" hreflang="en">14thC history</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/515" hreflang="en">Richard de Bury</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/516" hreflang="en">Aristotle</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>One of several intriguing features of MS 274 is the map of the world that appears prior to the manuscript’s copy of the first nineteen books of Pliny the Elder’s <em>Natural History</em>. It was clearly designed to express the Aristotelian theory that only the known world, comprising Asia, Europe, and Africa, protruded above the ocean, in opposition to theories that proposed the possibility of antipodal lands beyond and beneath the known world.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>World map in a 12th-century English manuscript of Macrobius’s <em>Commentary on the Dream of Scipio</em><br>Trinity ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Cambridge, MS R.9.23, f. 60v [detail]<br>© The Master and Fellows of Trinity ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Cambridge</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>Trinity ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Cambridge</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/2023-12/20NCN2%20%282023%29%20Hiatt%20on%20MS%20274.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=374397" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">20NCN2 (2023) Hiatt on MS 274.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">365.62 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Thu, 28 Dec 2023 19:11:38 +0000 Christopher 2920 at /tale-two-iliads-oxford-new-college-298-and-trinity-college-dublin-922 <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/Trinity%20²ÝÁñÊÓƵ%20Library%20Dublin%2C%20MS%20922%2C%20f.%2031v%20%5Bdetail%5D.jpg.webp?itok=8fP8Awaj" width="655" height="435" alt="Trinity ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library Dublin, MS 922, f. 31v [detail]" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> A Tale of Two Iliads: Oxford ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ 298 and Trinity ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Dublin 922 </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Mateu Portells Watson</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/52" hreflang="en">Library Manuscripts</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/88" hreflang="en">Library Manuscript</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/349" hreflang="en">MS 298</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/364" hreflang="en">Homer</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/509" hreflang="en">Trinity ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Dublin</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/365" hreflang="en">John Tzetzes</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>Of all the ancient texts that have shaped history, the <em>Iliad</em> is among the most widely read, copied, and studied. Whilst the broad impact of the <em>Iliad</em> across macroscopic physical and temporal spaces is well-documented, the propagation of the texts themselves may offer cultural and historical insights on a more microscopic scale, where individual scholars can be found leaving their mark on history and our understanding of Homeric work. This is a tale of two <em>Iliads</em>, Trinity ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Dublin MS 922 and Oxford ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ MS 298.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Trinity ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Dublin, MS 922, f. 31v [detail]<br>© The Board of Trinity ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Dublin</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>Trinity ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Dublin</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/2023-12/20NCN1%20%282023%29%20Portells%20Watson%20on%20A%20Tale%20of%20Two%20Iliads.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=475927" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">20NCN1 (2023) Portells Watson on A Tale of Two Iliads.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">464.77 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Thu, 28 Dec 2023 18:42:21 +0000 Christopher 2919 at /very-inconsiderable-exceptg-they-are-hand-writing-so-great-man-provenance-isaac-newtons-manuscripts <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/2023-07/New%20²ÝÁñÊÓƵ%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20MS%20361-2%2C%20f.%2045v.jpg.webp?itok=e46rBqLK" width="655" height="435" alt="²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 361/2, f. 45v [detail]" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> ‘Very inconsiderable exceptg that they are the Hand writing of so great a Man’: The Provenance of Isaac Newton’s Manuscripts at ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Oxford </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Frederik Dhondt</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): 19</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/92" hreflang="en">Isaac Newton</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/93" hreflang="en">Jeffrey Ekins</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/470" hreflang="en">Arthur Ashley Sykes</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/376" hreflang="en">MS 361</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/377" hreflang="en">MS 361/1</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/378" hreflang="en">MS 361/2</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/379" hreflang="en">MS 361/3</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/380" hreflang="en">MS 361/4</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 1872 a set of Issac Newton’s manuscripts was bequeated to ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Oxford by the Reverend Jeffrey Ekins. Although Newton scholars were well aware of this collection, its provenance is shrouded in mystery.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 361/2, f. 45v [detail]</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/2023-07/19NCN5%20%282023%29%20Dhondt%20on%20Provenance.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1518716" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">19NCN5 (2023) Dhondt on Provenance.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.45 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 31 Jul 2023 13:35:04 +0000 Christopher 2765 at /andrew-holes-and-john-burgh-two-wykehamists-one-manuscript-collection <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/2023-07/New%20²ÝÁñÊÓƵ%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20MS%20201%2C%20f.%201.jpg.webp?itok=fnj47_FN" width="655" height="435" alt="²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 201, f. 1r" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Andrew Holes and John Burgh: Two Wykehamists, One Manuscript Collection </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">David Rundle</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): 19</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/452" hreflang="en">Andrew Holes</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/453" hreflang="en">John Burgh</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/52" hreflang="en">Library Manuscripts</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>To reach Winchester ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, to where Andrew Holes was admitted in 1407, involved the first of the long journeys he undertook in his life: at his entry to the school, he was recorded as being the son of a knight of the Wirral. Holes moved to ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ in 1412 and was admitted a fellow on 30 October 1414. John Burgh entered Winchester in 1425 and ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ five years later. He was a fellow from 1432 until 1444, but he had already left Oxford a few years earlier.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 301, f. 1r [detail]</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/2023-07/19NCN1%20%282023%29%20Rundle%20on%20Holes%20and%20Burgh.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1307786" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">19NCN1 (2023) Rundle on Holes and Burgh.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.25 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 31 Jul 2023 11:24:46 +0000 Christopher 2761 at