/ en /three-stapletons-and-other-remarkable-acquisitions-new-college-library-2024 <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/Endpapers%20illustration%20by%20Nicola%20Howell%20Hawley%20to%20Andrew%20Caldecott%E2%80%99s%20Simul%20%282024%29.jpeg.webp?itok=Ls2TPwSP" width="655" height="435" alt="Nicola Howell Hawley, endpapers illustration to Andrew Caldecott’s Simul (2024)" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Three Stapletons and Other Remarkable Acquisitions to ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library in 2024 </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/117" hreflang="en">Thomas Stapleton</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/80" hreflang="en">Library Antiquarian</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/615" hreflang="en">BT1.17.22</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/616" hreflang="en">BT3.12.13</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/617" hreflang="en">BT3.38.15</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/273" hreflang="en">John Owen</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/618" hreflang="en">Francis Noel Clarke Mundy</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/420" hreflang="en">William Somervile</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/387" hreflang="en">Edward Perry Warren</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/619" hreflang="en">Erich Maria Remarque</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/74" hreflang="en">Archives</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/230" hreflang="en">Kate Mosse</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/620" hreflang="en">Chris Lethbridge</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/621" hreflang="en">Andrew Caldecott</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/622" hreflang="en">Paul Hoffman</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>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 ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Stapleton proceeded to ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, 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.</h3> <h3>And, of course—we have been acquiring some remarkable modern books and archival documents too.&nbsp;</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Nicola Howell Hawley, endpapers illustration to Andrew Caldecott’s <em>Simul</em> (2024)<br>²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, NC/CAL</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/2025-01/22NCN8%20%282024%29%20Skelton-Foord%20on%20Acquisitions%202024.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1670130" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">22NCN8 (2024) Skelton-Foord on Acquisitions 2024.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.59 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Tue, 31 Dec 2024 05:13:08 +0000 Christopher 3261 at /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