Chapter VIII: Appendix: The chief books on the Bodleian Library are

MACRAY, W. D., _Annals of the Bodleian_, 2nd edition, 1890 (the standard work on its history to 1880). 25s.

_Reliquiæ Bodleianæ ... containing his Life ... and a Collection of Letters to Dr. James, etc._ (edited by Thomas Hearne, London, 1703). Unfortunately the letters, being not fully dated, are in almost haphazard order.

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_A Manual for Readers_, contains information for readers on admission, Lists of the Bodleian Catalogues, etc. the _Rules for Cataloguing_ and Lists of the Manuscripts and Printed Collections, and of their Catalogues, can be obtained on application.

FOOTNOTES

[1] The classical Latin titles for “Librarian” found in inscriptions are:—_Procurator bibliothecarum_ (perhaps a wider term than _Librarian_), _Magister a bibliotheca_, _Bibliothecarius_ (used by Marcus Aurelius). _Librarius_ was a minor library official: _Librarius a manu_, a secretary in the library.

[2] His arms were:—Quarterly, 1st and 4th argent five martlets in saltire, with a crescent gules for difference, on a chief azure three ducal crowns or (for _Bodley_), 2nd and 3rd argent, two bars wavy between three hone-stones sable two and one (for _Hone_). Motto, _Quarta perennis_ (a reference to the three crowns, which were taken from the University Arms, presumably in 1604, when Bodley was knighted).

[3] _Bibliotheca Bodleiana_ is found in 1605: _Bodleiana_ in 1654; _Bodley’s Library_ in 1666; _Bodleian Library_ in 1695; _Bodley_ in 1706; _Bodleian_ in 1749. The term “Bodley” is now some times used for the old part of the Library, as compared with the “Camera.”

[4] New College: matr., 1592; Fellow; D.D., 1614; died, 1629; Librarian, 1602-1620.

[5] The Letters are well worth republishing, with notes, for Hearne’s edition in 1703 (_Reliquiæ Bodleianæ_) exhibit them in a hopelessly haphazard order, devoid of all chronological sequence.

[6] Bodley, however, reserved a life interest in this endowment, and the only independent income of the Librarian and Sub-Librarian as such was 8d. payable to the former and 4d. to the latter from every newly admitted reader—a provision made in the Statutes of 1610.

[7] This grant was hastily made, but actually passed under the Privy Seal, though its execution was for intelligible reasons stopped.

[8] John Rouse or Russe, matr. from Balliol 1596, Fellow of Oriel, 1600-52, M.A., 1604: Librarian, 1620-52.

[9] Exactly the same incident occurred with the Protector, Cromwell, when a MS. was ordered by him. Barlow induced him also to forgo his wish. This was in April, 1654, the year in which Cromwell presented twenty-four MSS.

[10] Thomas Barlow, matr. from Queen’s, 1625; Fellow, 1633-57; Provost, 1657-75; D.D., 1660; Bp. of Lincoln, 1675-91; Librarian, 1652-60.

[11] Thomas Lockey, matr. from Ch. Ch., 1621; D.D., 1660; d. 1679; Librarian, 1660-65.

[12] Thomas Hyde, matr. from Queen’s, 1654; D.D., 1682; Prof. of Arabic, 1691-7; Prof. of Hebrew, 1697-1703; _d._ 1703; Librarian, 1665-1701.

[13] John Hudson, matr. from Queen’s, 1677; Fellow of Univ. Coll., 1686-1711; D.D., 1701; Principal of St. Mary Hall, 1712-19; Librarian, 1701-19.

[14] Joseph Bowles, matr. from Hart Hall, 1713; then of St. Mary Hall; Fellow of Oriel; d. 1729; Librarian, 1719-29.

[15] Robert Fysher, matr. from Ch. Ch., 1715; M.A., 1724; Fellow of Oriel, 1726-47; Librarian, 1729-47.

[16] Humphrey Owen, matr. from Jesus, 1718; D.D., 1763; Principal of Jesus, 1763-68; _d._ 1768; Librarian, 1747-68.

[17] John Price, matr. from Jesus, 1754; M.A., 1760; _d._ 1813; Librarian, 1768-1813. Jesus College men ruled the Library from 1747 to 1813.

[18] It is told in the _Bodleian Quarterly Record_, vol. ii, No. 15 (1917), with plans.

[19] The writer cannot forget an occasion when Professor Henry Nettleship was about to write a paper for the Oxford Philological Society on the _Alapa Manumissionis_. When looking up some references in the General Catalogue he suddenly lighted on a title “De Alapa Manumissionis.” On ordering it, he found a dissertation of a youthful German student of the eighteenth century, who provided many references known to the Professor, and added more.

[20] Bulkeley Bandinel, matr. from New College, 1800; D.D., 1823; _d._ 1861; Librarian, 1813-60.

[21] Henry Octavius Coxe, matr. from Worcester, 1829; M.A., 1836; _d._ 1881. Sub-Librarian, 1838-60; Librarian, 1860-81.

[22] Edward Williams Byron Nicholson, matr. from Trinity; M.A.; d. 1912; Librarian, 1882-1912.

[23] Falconer Madan, matr. from Brasenose, 1870; M.A., 1877; Fellow, 1876-80 and 1889-1902; Hon. Fellow from 1912. Sub-Librarian, 1880-1912; Librarian, 1912-19.

[24] Two members fell in action, R. A. Abrams, M.A., a Senior Assistant, and H. G. Dunn, a member of the Extra Staff, both lieutenants.

[25] Arthur Ernest Cowley, matr. from Trinity, 1879; D.Litt., 1908; Fellow of Magdalen from 1902. Assistant Sub-Librarian, 1896-9; Sub-Librarian, 1900-19; Librarian from 1919.

[26] Full details of all the Catalogues are in the _Manual for Readers_, mentioned above.

[27] All these are enumerated in R. G. C. Proctor’s _Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum_, 1898-1900. The Caxtons are fully described in De Ricci’s _Census of Caxtons_, 19.

[28] The latest works on the subject are Professor A. C. Clark’s _Descent of MSS._ (1919) and (with a wider scope) F. W. Hall’s _Companion to Classical Texts_ (1913).

INDEX

Agar, Ralph, 48

Alexander, Romance of, 51

Allibond, Dr. John, 25

America. _See_ United States

Ashmole colln., 35, 53

Aubrey MSS., 53

Backhouse MSS., 54

“Baggage books,” 19

Ball, Anne, 16

Ballard MSS., 51

Barlow colln., 29, 50

Barlow, Bp. Thomas, Bodley’s Librarian (_d._ 1691), 25

Bandinel, Dr. Bulkeley, Bodley’s Librarian (_d._ 1861), 31-4

Barocci MSS., 24, 50

Bay Psalm book, 56

Beckwith MSS., 52

Bede, the Venerable, 24, 44

Benedictine Order, 8

Berlin library, 12

Bernard colln., 51

Bernard, Dr. Edward, 27, 28, 42

Bible, the Mazarine, 31

— N.T.—Gospels (Codex O, Latin), 51; (MacRegol), 51

— — Acts (Codex E, Greek), 45

Blakeway MSS., 53

Blomefield MSS., 52

Bodleian Library—Bodley’s offer to found it (1598), 16

— position among other libraries, 12

— stages of its history, _see_ list of contents

— _Admission_, 13, 20, 41

— _Arts End_, 21, 38

— _Associations_ and Attractions, 42-8, 57-8

— Number of _books_, 13, 27, 39

— _Books_ (order on shelves, 1605), 19, 38

— Oldest printed _book_, 49

— Printed _books_, 29, 54-5

— List of chief _books_ in it, 64

— _Buildings_, 37-9

— _Buildings_, plan of, _frontispiece_

— _Camera_, 31, 34, 36, 39

— _Catalogues_—First printed (1605), 19

— — Second printed (1620), 23

— — Third printed (1674), 26

— — Fourth printed (1738), 29

— — Fifth printed (1843-51), 33

— — Present Catalogue of Printed Books, 35, 42

— — Bernard’s “Old Catalogue” of MSS. (1697), 27, 42

— — Oriental MSS. (1787-1835), 31

— — Quarto series, 33, 42

— — Subject Catalogue, 19

— — Summary Catalogue, 33, 42

— _Catalogue_ Revision, 36, 37

— _Charters_ and Rolls, 13, 35

— _Collections_ and special MSS. _See_ under their names

— _Curators_, 40

— _Days and Hours of opening_, 20, 32, 41

— _Dissertations_, 33

— “_Duke Humphrey._” _See_ Reading Room, Old

— _Finance_, 42, 18_n_, 21, 28

— _Incunabula_ and Blockbooks, 55

— _Janitor_, 20, 40

— _Languages_ represented (1605), 22

— _Lending_ out books, 20, 25, 42

— Bodley’s _Librarian_, 18, 20, 40

— Smallest _Manuscript_, 47

— Classical _Manuscripts_ (statistics), 49

— Noteworthy _Manuscripts_, 49-54 and _passim_.

— Oldest complete _Manuscript_, 49

— Early _names_, 16_n_

— _Oratio Bodleiana_, 41

— _Picture Gallery_, 8, 21, 36, 38

— _Pictures and Coins_, 56

— Contents of the _Quadrangle_, 38

— _Readers_, 41

— Old _Reading Room_, 10, 14, 17, 38

— Upper _Reading Room_, 36

— _Registrum Benefactorum_, 21

— Materials for _research_, 62-3

— _Selden End_, 10, 24, 26, 38

— Statistics of _size_, 13

— _Staff_ (Officers, Assistants, Extra Staff, etc.), 20, 35, 40

— _Statutes_, 20, 36

— _Sub-Librarians_, 20, 40

— _Underground Bookstore_, 36, 39

— _Underkeeper_, 20

— Effect of the _War_, 37

— _Warming_, 32

Bodleian Quarterly Record, 37

Bodley, Mrs. Anne, née Carey, 16

Bodley, Sir Thomas, 15-21

Books, earliest, 7

— Early forms of, 8

Boreal MSS., 53

Bowen MSS., 52

Bowles, Joseph, Bodley’s Librarian (_d._ 1729), 28

Bradley MSS., 52

Brassey, Earl, 36

Brett MSS., 54

Bridge MSS., 52

British Museum, 8, 11, 15, 23, 42, 44

Browne Willis MSS., 52

Bruce MSS., 53

Burton, Robert, 24

Burton, William, 24

Bywater, Ingram, 36

Cædmon, 44

Cambridge, unique earliest view of, 48

— University Library, 15, 29, 44, 45

Canonici MSS., 52

Carey, Anne, 16

Carte MSS., 29, 51

Casaubon MSS., 26, 50

Catullus, 52

“Century of Great Donations,” 28

Chandra MSS., 36, 54

Chanson de Roland, 50

Charles I, King, 25

Charles II, King, 27, 47

Chinese, 22, 36

Clarendon, 1st Earl of, 30, 47, 52

Clarke (E.D.) MSS., 52

Clarke (W.N.) MSS., 53

Cobham, Bp. Thomas de, 14

Codex E of the Acts, 50

Codex Ebnerianus, 54

Codex O of the Latin Gospels, 51

Confucius, 49

Copyright Acts, 20

Cotton, Sir Robert, 8, 21

Cowley, Dr. Arthur Ernest, Bodley’s Librarian (1919-), 37

Coxe, Rev. Henry Octavius, Bodley’s Librarian (_d._ 1881), 34-5

Crevenna sale (1780), 31

Cromwell MSS., 24, 29, 50

Cromwell, Oliver, 25

Dawkins MSS., 52

Deposit, libraries of, 10, 56

Digby MSS., 24, 50

Dodsworth MSS., 26, 50

D’Orville MSS., 52

Dugdale MSS., 53

Dunstan, St., 21

“_Duke Humphrey._” _See_ Bodleian Library—Old _Reading Room_

Earliest English musical composition, 51

Elliott MSS., 53

Ethelred Tropary, 51

Euclid (A.D. 888), 52

Evans, Sir Arthur John, 58

Exeter Cathedral MSS., 21, 49

Fairfax MSS., 26, 50

Fairfax, Lord, 25

Foyle, Messrs., of London, 12

Furney MSS., 52

Fysher, Robert, Bodley’s Librarian (_d._ 1747), 28-9

Gaignières drawings, 52

Gentoo. _See_ Sanskrit

Georgian books, 55

Gloucester, Humphrey Duke of, 14

Gospel-book of St. Margaret of Scotland, 45

Gough colln., 52

Gower MSS., 54

Gowland, William, 59

Grangerism, 48

Hallam MSS., 54

Hamond, John, 48

Hatton MSS., 26, 50

Hearne, Thomas, 28-30, 52

Heather, Dr. William, 31

Hebrew, 33

Herculanean papyri, 54

Hereford, 10

Holman’s Essex MSS., 52

Holmes MSS., 52

Hope collection of Engraved Portraits, 38

Hope, Sir William St. John, 60

Hudson, Dr. John, Bodley’s Librarian (_d._ 1719), 28

Hultzsch MSS., 54

Hunt MSS., 52

Huntington MSS., 26, 50

Hutchison MSS., 52

Hyde, Dr. Thomas, Bodley’s Librarian (_d._ 1703), 26

James I, King, 18

James, Dr. Thomas, Bodley’s Librarian (_d._ 1629), 17-23

Jerome’s Chronicle of Eusebius, 53

John, King, 60-2

Jones MSS., 51

Junius MSS., 26, 50

King’s Quair, 50

Laud MSS., 24, 50

Laud, Archbp. William, 24, 50

Lectern System, in libraries, 9

Leland, John, 24

Le Neve MSS., 52

Leofric Missal, 21, 49

“Librarian,” classical terms for, 14

Libraries, earliest, 7-8

— mediæval, 8-10

— kinds of, 10-12

— statistics of great, 12

Library Association, 35

Lister colln., 53

Lockey, Dr. Thomas, Bodley’s Librarian (_d._ 1679), 26

London, unique earliest view of, 48

— _See_ British Museum

Longest poem in the world, 54

Luther literature, 55

MacRegol Gospels, 51

Madan, Falconer, Bodley’s Librarian (1912-19), 36-7

Malone collns., 53

Margaret, St., Queen of Scotland, 46

Marsh MSS., 27, 51

Marshall colln., 29, 50

Mason MSS., 52

Meerman MSS., 53

Mendoza Codex, 50

Merle, William de, 24, 50

Mexican records, 50, 56

Michael MSS., 53

Mill MSS., 53

Milles MSS., 53

Milton, John, 47

Modern study, its methods and materials, 57-62

Montagu colln., 53

Morris, Dr. John, 41

Munich library, 12

Music (perh. the earliest English composition), 51

Music School MSS., 36, 54

Nettleship, Prof. Henry, 33

Nichols Newspapers, 55

Nicholson, Edward Williams Byron, Bodley’s Librarian (_d._ 1912), 35-6

Nicoll, Alexander, 31

Onomatopœia, 7

Oppenheimer colln., 33, 53

Oriental MSS., etc., 22, 31, 33, 36

Ormesby Psalter, 53

Ormulum, 50

Ouseley MSS., 53

Owen, Dr. Humphrey, Bodley’s Librarian (_d._ 1768), 29-30

Oxford. _See_ Bodleian Library

— unique earliest view of, 48

— Ashmolean Museum, 56

— Clarendon Press, 30, 36

— Colleges (loan of MSS.), 36

— Corpus Christi college, 10

— Examination schools, 36, 39

— Jesus college, 30_n_

— Magdalen college, 15

— Old Ashmolean Basement, 36, 39

— Oriel college, 14

— Radcliffe Camera. _See_ Bodleian Library—Camera

— Schools Quadrangle, 31

— Sheldonian Theatre and Basement, 36, 39

— University libraries, old, 14

Oxford Barbers’ company, 54

Oxford Diocesan papers, 35, 54

Oxford University Endowment Fund, 36

Paris, 26

— National library, 12, 15

Parliament at Oxford (1681), 27

Pegge MSS., 52

Pembroke, Earl of, 24

Pepys MSS., 30, 51

Peterborough, 24

Petrograd library, 12

Photography, 36

Pictograms, 7

Pinelli sale (1789), 31

Plato (A.D. 895), 52

Pococke MSS., 26, 50

Price, John, Bodley’s Librarian (_d._ 1813), 30

Pusey, Edw. Bouverie, 31

Rawlinson colln., 30, 51

Reference, libraries of, 10, (56)

Rich, Jeremiah, 47

Roe MSS., 24, 50

Roland, Chanson de, 50

Rolls of papyrus, etc., 8

Romance of Alexander, 51

Rome. _See_ Vatican library

Rouse, John, Bodley’s Librarian (_d._ 1652), 24-5, 47

Saibante MSS., 53

St. Amand colln., 51

Sancroft MSS., 29

Sanskrit (“Gentoo”), 26, 36

Savile colln., 36, 49, 54

_Sayings of Our Lord_, 44

Schoolboy’s Letter, 44

Selden colln., 25, 50

Send, monument of, 7

Shakespeare, William, 23, 29, 32, 46, 54 (signature), 55 (_bis_), 56

Sheldon MSS., 54

Shelley MSS., 36, 54

Speech, early, 7

Stall system, in libraries, 9

Stationers Company, London, 20

Stonehenge, 58-60

Sutherland Collection, 48

Tamil MSS., 53

Tanner colln., 29, 51

Tapestry maps, 32

Thurloe MSS., 30, 51

Tractatus Lutherani, 55

Turbutt Shakespeare, 46

Turner MSS., 54

Turner, Will. Henry, 35

Twyne MSS., 49

United States libraries, 12-13

Uri, Johann, 31

Ussher’s Collectanea, 52

Vatican Library, 12

Venice, 21

Vernon MS., 51

Vienna library, 12

Walker (A.) MSS., 53

Walker (John) MSS., 29, 51

Wall system, in libraries, 10

Wang Hsi Chih, 49

Wardrop colln., 55

Wash, the, 60-62

Watson MSS., 54

Wight MSS., 52

Willis MSS., 52

Wilson MSS., 53

Windsor MSS, 22, 49

Wood colln., 53

Writing, earliest, 7

Würzburg, 24

Wyngaerde, Antonio van den, 48

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