Ernest Victor Culme-Seymour

Unique and Distinctive Acquisitions to ��Ƶ Library in 2023

Christopher — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 02:09:49 +0000

Unique and Distinctive Acquisitions to ��Ƶ 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 ��Ƶ 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 ��Ƶ 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.

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

��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

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