/ en /botanist-warden-lunatic-fatal-prepossession-new-college-ms-382-context Botanist, Warden, Lunatic: ‘The Fatal Prepossession’ (²ÝÁñÊÓƵ MS 382) in Context Christopher Skelton-Foord Issue number (2024): 22 Notes category Library Manuscripts Charles Abbot John Oglander William Anthony Glynn MS 382 18thC history 19thC history

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quarto volume, its 113 paper leaves contain in a cursive script (appearance indicates a fair copy) three apparently unpublished literary works by him—and one since published—dedicated to the warden of ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Oxford. 

 

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 382, f. 6r (list of characters)

 

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library and Archives, Oxford

22NCN5 (2024) Skelton-Foord on MS 382.pdf711.67 KB ]]> Tue, 31 Dec 2024 04:35:45 +0000 Christopher 3258 at /node/1806 ‘Hurried out of my life . . . my horses are at the door’: Harry Peckham and the Stewardship of ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ’s Estates During the 1770s Jennifer Thorp Issue number (2018): 10 Notes category ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ history 18thC history Archives 10NCN8 (2018) Thorp on Peckham.pdf514.8 KB ]]> Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:15:35 +0000 Christopher 1806 at /node/1805 A Taste of the Eighteenth Century Marjory Szurko Issue number (2018): 10 Notes category ²ÝÁñÊÓƵs of St Mary Winton Collection Archives 18thC history ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ history NCA 962

Hidden away in the archives of ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Oxford is a small eighteenth-century cookbook whose recipes originate from Radolphus (or Ralph) Ayres, a cook at ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ in the early eighteenth century.  The recipes range from such dishes as Oxford Sausages and Collar’d Beef to Queen Cakes and A quaking Puding.

 

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Puddings with dates and almonds
Made and photographed by Marjory Szurko

 

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Oxford

10NCN7 (2018) Szurko on A Taste.pdf424.23 KB ]]> Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:11:27 +0000 Christopher 1805 at /node/1645 Brotherly Love? Dr Young among the Thespians Lucia Quinault Issue number (2018): 09 Notes category Winchester ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ 18thC history Edward Young 9NCN8 (2018) Quinault on Brotherly Love.pdf300.35 KB ]]> Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:49:20 +0000 Christopher 1645 at /node/772 William Smith’s Biblical Notebook (1729): A Manuscript Recovered William Poole Issue number (2014): 05 Notes category ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ 18thC history William Smith Library Manuscript Library Antiquarian MS 394 5NCN13 (2014) Poole on Smith's Biblical Notebook.pdf240.62 KB ]]> Wed, 15 Oct 2014 10:28:07 +0000 Anonymous 772 at