Bodleian Library Summer Exhibition opens

The Bodleian Library summer exhibition ‘Beyond the work of one’ celebrates successive generations of benefactors who, by their generosity, have enriched the Oxford College libraries’ holdings for more than 700 years. The very varied exhibits include:

• A 14th- century bishop’s mitre made of silk with pearls and semi-precious stones belonging to William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England
• A Psalter that belonged to Katherine of Aragon, wife of Henry VIII and Elizabeth, wife of Henry VII
• Samuel Johnson’s gruel mug, used on his regular visits to his friend Thomas Warton in Oxford
  Codex Laud -The pre-Colombian screenfold manuscript from southern Mexico which now bears William Laud's name
• Gerard Manley Hopkins’ autograph manuscript, The Dublin Notebook.
  The Key to Sciences, a 14th-century Arabic manuscript compendium of linguistic sciences donated by Archbishop Laud to St John’s College
  

The exhibition opens on 24th May and runs until 1st November. It is open Monday-Friday 9.00-5.00 and Saturday 9.00-4.30, and is being held in the Exhibition Room, Old Schools Quadrangle, Bodleian Library. Admission is free. Further details can be found on the Bodleian Library website

Bodleian Stack service on May 26th

Please note that a limited stack service will be available on Monday 26th May, the Spring Bank Holiday. A limited book service from Central Bodleian stacks to the New Bodleian Library, Old Bodleian Library and Radcliffe Camera will be available. Requests can be placed on 26th May but there will be no deliveries to other libraries such as the Social Science Library, and books will not be fetched from locations outside Oxford.

If you are planning to use Bodleian stack books on 26th May, you are advised to order books before the weekend.

Recent additions to the Library

The list of all items added to the Library during April, whether purchased or donated, is now available on the Library website