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