18thC history

Botanist, Warden, Lunatic: ‘The Fatal Prepossession’ (��Ƶ MS 382) in Context

Christopher — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 04:35:45 +0000

Botanist, Warden, Lunatic: ‘The Fatal Prepossession’ (��Ƶ 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 ��Ƶ 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quarto volume, its 113 paper leaves contain in a cursive script (appearance indicates a fair copy) three apparently unpublished literary works by him—and one since published—dedicated to the warden of ��Ƶ, Oxford.

��Ƶ Library, Oxford, MS 382, f. 6r (list of characters)

��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

22NCN5 (2024) Skelton-Foord on MS 382.pdf711.67 KB

‘Hurried out of my life . . . my horses are at the door’: Harry Peckham and the Stewardship of ��Ƶ’s Estates During the 1770s

Christopher — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:15:35 +0000

‘Hurried out of my life . . . my horses are at the door’: Harry Peckham and the Stewardship of ��Ƶ’s Estates During the 1770s

Jennifer Thorp

Issue number

(2018): 10

Notes category

��Ƶ history

18thC history

A Taste of the Eighteenth Century

Christopher — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:11:27 +0000

A Taste of the Eighteenth Century

Marjory Szurko

Issue number

(2018): 10

Notes category

��Ƶs of St Mary Winton Collection

Hidden away in the archives of ��Ƶ, Oxford is a small eighteenth-century cookbook whose recipes originate from Radolphus (or Ralph) Ayres, a cook at ��Ƶ 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.

��Ƶ Puddings with dates and almonds
Made and photographed by Marjory Szurko

��Ƶ, Oxford

10NCN7 (2018) Szurko on A Taste.pdf424.23 KB

Brotherly Love? Dr Young among the Thespians

Christopher — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:49:20 +0000

Brotherly Love? Dr Young among the Thespians

Lucia Quinault

Issue number

(2018): 09

Notes category

Winchester ��Ƶ

18thC history

Edward Young

9NCN8 (2018) Quinault on Brotherly Love.pdf300.35 KB

William Smith’s Biblical Notebook (1729): A Manuscript Recovered

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 10:28:07 +0000

William Smith’s Biblical Notebook (1729): A Manuscript Recovered

William Poole

Issue number

(2014): 05

Notes category

5NCN13 (2014) Poole on Smith's Biblical Notebook.pdf240.62 KB

18thC history

Botanist, Warden, Lunatic: ‘The Fatal Prepossession’ (������Ƶ MS 382) in Context

Botanist, Warden, Lunatic: ‘The Fatal Prepossession’ (������Ƶ MS 382) in Context

������Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

‘Hurried out of my life . . . my horses are at the door’: Harry Peckham and the Stewardship of ������Ƶ’s Estates During the 1770s

‘Hurried out of my life . . . my horses are at the door’: Harry Peckham and the Stewardship of ������Ƶ’s Estates During the 1770s

A Taste of the Eighteenth Century

A Taste of the Eighteenth Century

������Ƶ, Oxford

Brotherly Love? Dr Young among the Thespians

Brotherly Love? Dr Young among the Thespians

William Smith’s Biblical Notebook (1729): A Manuscript Recovered

William Smith’s Biblical Notebook (1729): A Manuscript Recovered

Botanist, Warden, Lunatic: ‘The Fatal Prepossession’ (��Ƶ MS 382) in Context

Botanist, Warden, Lunatic: ‘The Fatal Prepossession’ (��Ƶ MS 382) in Context

��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

‘Hurried out of my life . . . my horses are at the door’: Harry Peckham and the Stewardship of ��Ƶ’s Estates During the 1770s

‘Hurried out of my life . . . my horses are at the door’: Harry Peckham and the Stewardship of ��Ƶ’s Estates During the 1770s

��Ƶ, Oxford