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his collection of digital images includes a very small sample of some of our great printed treasures including works by william shakespeare and william blake the bay psalm book the first book printed in british north america and examples of less well known titles also available are a small number of items from christ church exeter college and magdalen college discover 122 items early modern manuscripts and archives western manuscripts and archives from the years 1500 to 1800 the bodleian holds one of the world s largest and most wide ranging collections of archives and manuscripts strengths of the early modern holdings include major antiquarian and topographical collections from the 17th century onwards which provide essential sources for 17th 18th century british and irish history britain s relationship with european states britain s imperial and colonial history and british literature a small number of these have been digitized to date including tradescants orchard a set of 17th century watercolours of garden fruits both volumes of john aubrey s monumenta britannica and jane austen s volume the first digital bodleian also includes early modern manuscripts from oxford college libraries among them a transcript of david gregory s notes on isaac newton s principia mathematica held by christ church and john prideaux s teaching notes from exeter college discover 346 items maps and atlases images from nearly 500 maps and atlases spanning the medieval period to the 20th century including western arabic chinese and korean mapmaking traditions the bodleian map collection holds 1 500 000 sheet maps and 20 000 atlases from all parts of the globe with topographic and thematic maps dating from medieval times to the present day the result of almost four centuries of building the collections is a veritable treasure trove of cartographic materials the antiquarian collection is considerable and includes the ca 1390 gough map the oldest surviving geographically recognisable map of britain there are also manuscript portolan charts designed for safe passage at sea and numerous english estate plans including the laxton map of 1635 showing the open field system of this nottinghamshire village made all the more remarkable by the fact that the bodleian holds the accompanying terrier describing each of the thousands of individual plots marked on the map and that the laxton landscape remains largely unchanged into the twenty first century digitized highlights include ms marsh 294 a copy of a 16th century arabic portolan chart and the drink map of oxford an 1883 map created by the temperance union for oxfordshire which showed it was possible to buy a drink in every 22nd building in oxford discover 828 items hebrew manuscripts and printed books nearly 800 fully digitized hebrew manuscripts and printed books from the medieval and early modern periods the bodleian holds a large collection of hebrew manuscripts as well as early hebrew and yiddish printed books the library s founder thomas bodley took a personal interest in hebrew manuscripts and after his death the library continued to enrich the hebrew collections in 1692 it purchased the collections of dr robert huntington and professor edward pococke the huntington collection includes the mishneh torah of maimonides 1155 1204 with the author s signature the acquisition in 1817 of the collection of matteo luigi canonici represented the largest single purchase ever made by the library in 1829 the bodleian bought the oppenheim library thought to be the most important and magnificent hebraica collection ever accumulated the digitized items include ms kennicott 1 the kennicott bible a magnificently decorated 15th century hebrew bible donated to the library by benjamin kennicott and ms kennicott 3 a rare example of a dated and lavishly illustrated ashkenazi pentateuch discover 843 items persian manuscripts important persian manuscripts including richly decorated works by jāmī firdawsī and umar khayyām the bodleian acquired its first persian manuscripts in 1602 the year it opened the collections of laud and pococke contained a small number of persian items but it was with the collections of john and thomas greaves that the first persian manuscripts of note entered the library ms greaves 1 binding digitized only a copy of jāmī s poem yūsuf and zulaykhā is prized for its beautiful lacquered binding and illustrations john greaves also made use of his copy of the star tables of ulugh beg ms greaves 5 sample only to publish his own astronomical and geographical observations around 50 persian items entered the library in 1714 with the collections of narcissus marsh but it was with the acquisition of the collections of sir william and sir gore ouseley that the persian collections reached their zenith notable items which have been digitized include ms ouseley add 176 the shāhnāmah book of kings completed in about 1435 in shirāz for ibrāhīm sulṭan one of the grandsons of timur ms ouseley add 175 a sumptuous edition of the works of 3 poets including hāfiẓ of shīrāz and three further decorated manuscript copies of works by the poet jāmī ms hyde 10 ms ouseley add 23 and ms elliott 254 discover 102 items armenian manuscripts and printed books there are currently 140 armenian manuscripts in the bodleian libraries the earliest manuscript dates back to the 11th century whilst the most recent one was composed in the early 20th century interest in armenian culture and manuscripts goes back to the times of the foundation of the bodleian libraries with the first armenian manuscripts entering the collection through the benefaction from archbishop laud 1573 1645 throughout the centuries numerous manuscripts have been donated to or acquired by the library with a significant number of acquisitions dating to the late 19th century the digitized collection includes images from 79 armenian manuscripts including palaeographic samples digitized for the digital manuscripts toolkit in 2021 22 the carnegie corporation generously funded full photography of several important manuscripts from the collection digitized items include ms arm d 11 the earliest armenian volume preserved in the library and ms arm d 13 a copy of the four gospels illuminated by mesrop of xizan one of the last important representatives of the armenian school of miniaturists in new julfa in the first half of the 17th century discover 94 items georgian manuscripts select important georgian texts spanning 900 years from an 11th century menologion to the 1907 memorandum of the people of georgia the bodleian s georgian manuscripts and archives collection holds manuscripts and archival materials from all subject areas from the 7th to the 20th century ce the nucleus of the bodleian library s rich holdings of georgian books and manuscripts is the wardrop collection formed by sir oliver wardrop the first british chief commissioner of the transcaucasus and his sister marjory wardrop after marjory s early death in 1909 the marjory wardrop fund was founded for the encouragement of georgian studies and from 1910 through this fund the bodleian became the beneficiary of all marjory wardrop s papers books and manuscripts they were supplemented by further donations from sir oliver until his death in 1948 and two more recent donations from sir oliver s descendants in 2017 and 2018 digitized items include ms georg b 1 an 11th century autograph manuscript by giorgi prokhore the founder of the holy cross monastery in jerusalem which contains important hagiographic texts and other significant ecclesiastical texts and ms wardrop d 17 and ms wardrop d 27 two 17th century copies of the the knight in the panther s skin vepʿxistqaosani ვეფხისტყაოსანი that are listed in unesco s memory of the world register discover 9 items south asian manuscripts a small number of sanskrit manuscripts and albums of mughal paintings and calligraphy from the bodleian s extensive south asian collection consisting of approximately 9 000 manuscripts the bodleian libraries house the largest known collection of sanskrit and prakrit manuscripts outside of the indian sub continent this collection has been developing since the 17th century when the first south asian books were donated to the library by archbishop william laud in 1635 40 by the mid nineteenth century the bodleian s sanskrit manuscript holdings were described by professor friedrich max müller as the second best in europe surpassed only by those of the east india company thanks to two nineteenth century benefactors the bodleian also hosts one of the most important collections of mughal paintings in the world the first collection of mughal paintings came as part of the bequest of the antiquary and bibliophile francis douce in 1834 the library s holdings were augmented a few years later by paintings from the manuscript collection of the diplomat sir gore ouseley when in 1859 mr j b elliot a bengal civil servant who had purchased them after the diplomat s death in 1844 presented to the bodleian mughal paintings and other fine manuscripts from ouseley s library discover 85 items photographs photographs ranging from early william henry fox talbot and julia margaret cameron prints to 20th century images capturing modern british society the bodleian boasts an extraordinary selection of photographic materials across its extensive archives and printed book collections the holdings range from the experiments of early photographers in the 19th century to the negatives and prints of contemporary artists in the 20th and 21st centuries in digital bodleian are prints of william henry fox talbot 1800 1877 pioneer and inventor of modern photography the henry taylor album comprising a selection of prints by julia margaret cameron 1815 1879 prints from the hyman collection of british photographs including portraits and landscapes as well as photographs of natural industrial and social documentary subjects and portrait photographs by bern schwartz also available are items from other oxford organisations including a series of images taken by arnold fairbairns to illustrate a history of lincoln college by stephen a warner 1880 1948 discover 227 items featured collection chinese maps manuscripts and printed books over 2 000 items from the bodleian s chinese maps manuscripts and printed books collections acquired since the 17th century the bodleian library s chinese collections date back to the earliest period of the library s history sir thomas bodley himself was instrumental in building up the collection and during the following century the library acquired other chinese works from several bequests the bodleian now holds as many as a quarter of all the extant chinese books that arrived in europe in the 17th century towards the end of the 19th century the library acquired two large collections of missionary publications these works have an interest which goes beyond their value as expositions of christian doctrine some are written in local dialects others provide glimpses of the popular chinese religious and social customs which the missionaries encountered in the course of their work all illustrate the process whereby traditional chinese block printing was gradually replaced by western typography digitized items include ms chin c 15 and ms chin c 37 two painted albums depicting the manners and customs of the peoples inhabiting mountainous regions of yunnan guizhou and southwest china and the selden map of china one of the first chinese maps to reach europe discover 2011 items partner institutions view all discover all souls college discover campion hall discover brasenose college discover christ church discover exeter college discover harris manchester college discover jesus college discover lincoln college discover magdalen college discover merton college discover the oxford union society discover pembroke college discover the queen s college discover somerville college discover st john s college all souls college architectural drawings and estate maps from the library at all souls college oxford the college of all souls was founded in 1438 by henry chichele archbishop of canterbury it received its foundation charter from henry vi co opted by the chichele as the college s co founder originally comprising forty two fellows who were to study for the higher degrees of theology and law and later medicine as an unarmed militia in the service of church and government the library has rich collections of early printed books as well as collections of archives relating to the college s estates and history manuscripts dating from the 11th to the 20th century including two major collections digitized here of architectural drawings and of sixteenth century estate maps the drawings include wren s designs for st paul s cathedral as well as parish churches royal palaces and a small group of drawings by nicholas hawksmoor the sixteenth century estate maps were commissioned by warden robert hovenden in the 1590s and show land in buckinghamshire middlesex and kent with smaller estates in oxfordshire berkshire and shropshire discover 7 items campion hall a volume of thomas aquinas summa theologiae with annotations from edmund campion founded by the society of jesus in 1896 campion hall is one of six permanent private halls at the university of oxford the hall opened originally for the benefit of jesuit undergraduates but is now home to a thriving international community of graduate students fellows and staff from diverse backgrounds and faiths the library has been integral to its life and scholarly activity since the hall s foundation in 1896 it enjoys a privileged location within the lutyens designed building the library collection serves the students and fellows of the hall and makes a distinctive contribution to the libraries in the university its collection mainly consists of arts subjects and it is especially strong in modern catholic theology integral ecology and jesuit studies a landmark enhancement to the holdings of the library came at the end of the academic year 2017 2018 with the closure of heythrop college whose rare books it was decided should come to campion hall included among them is an edition of the summa theologiae of thomas aquinas unique due to edmund campion s annotations volume one of which was selected as the first item from campion hall s collection to be digitized discover 1 items brasenose college rare books manuscripts and estate maps from brasenose college oxford brasenose college was founded in 1509 by william smyth bishop of lincoln and sir richard sutton a lawyer and the first lay founder of a college in oxford or cambridge before the foundation of the college part of the site was occupied by one of the medieval oxford halls brasenose hall the name is thought to originate from a brazen nose a bronze door knocker in the shape of a nose famous alumni include robert burton john buchan william golding michael palin david cameron and kate allen thanks to th...