#thomas bodley

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Happy Birthday, Bodley!

Sir Thomas Bodley, founder of the Bodleian Libraries, was born #onthisday in 1545.⁣⁠ ⁣⁠ Bodley is credited with rescuing the original university library, which was effectively closed when the Dean of Christ Church removed all books and manuscripts from it in an effort to purge the English Church of all traces of Catholicism in 1550. In 1598, Bodley refurnished the old library to house a new collection of nearly 2,500 books, some of which were given by Bodley himself. A librarian was appointed shortly thereafter, and the library opened to scholars on 8 November 1602.⁣⁠ ⁣⁠ The Bodleian Library is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and is now the second largest in Britain with over 12 million printed items. This picture shows the interior of the Duke Humfrey's Library, which is one of the oldest reading rooms in the Bodleian.⁣⁠

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Thomas Bodley’s Birthday

Sir Thomas Bodley, founder of the Bodleian Libraries, was born #onthisday in 1545.

Bodley is credited with rescuing the original university library, which was effectively closed when the Dean of Christ Church removed all books and manuscripts from it in an effort to purge the English Church of all traces of Catholicism in 1550. In 1598, Bodley refurnished the old library to house a new collection of nearly 2,500 books, some of which were given by Bodley himself. A librarian was appointed shortly thereafter, and the library opened to scholars on 8 November 1602.

The Bodleian Library is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and is now the second largest in Britain with over 12 million printed items. This picture shows the interior of the Duke Humfrey's Library, which is one of the oldest reading rooms in the Bodleian.

Portrait of Sir Thomas Bodley

Interior of Duke Humfrey’s Library

Interior of the Divinity School

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Thomas Bodley

Sir Thomas Bodley, founder of the Bodleian Libraries, was born #onthisday in 1545.

Bodley is credited with rescuing the original university library, which was effectively closed when the Dean of Christ Church removed all books and manuscripts from it in an effort to purge the English Church of all traces of Catholicism in 1550. In 1598, Bodley refurnished the old library to house a new collection of nearly 2,500 books, some of which were given by Bodley himself. A librarian was appointed shortly thereafter, and the library opened to scholars on 8 November 1602.

The Bodleian Library is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and is now the second largest in Britain with over 12 million printed items.

Sir Thomas Bodley, founder of the Bodleian Libraries.

The Divinity School, housed within the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford. Built between 1427 and 1483, it is the oldest surviving purpose-built building for university use. The Bodleian's Duke Humfrey's Library is on the first floor above the Divinity School.

The Duke Humfrey's Library is the oldest reading room in the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford. It is named after Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, a younger son of Henry IV of England.

The courtyard of the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford.

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Sir Thomas Bodley

Sir Thomas Bodley, founder of the Bodleian Libraries (@bodleianlibs) was born on this day in 1545. The Bodleian is the main research library of the University of Oxford. One of the oldest libraries in Europe, it first opened to scholars in 1602.

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Happy Birthday Sir Thomas Bodley! (2 March 1545 – 28 January 1613)

English diplomat and scholar, founder of the modern Bodleian Library, Oxford.

From our stacks:

Frontispiece ‘Thomas Bodley’, cover detail, “Interior of the Bodleian. From a painting by E. Vaughan-Jenkins, 1888.”, and title page detail from Annals of the Bodleian Library Oxford with a Notice of the Earlier Library of the University by the Rev. William Dunn Macray, M.A., F.S.A. Assistant in the Department of Mss. Rector of Ducklington, Oxon. Second Edition Enlarged, and Continued from 1868 to 1880. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1890.

Hi @bodleianlibs !

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The cover for Aerial Warfare by Rufus Pingree Hearne, published in 1909 by John Lane at The Bodley Head, a publishing house which took its name from a bust of Sir Thomas Bodley (founder of the Bodleian Library, Oxford) which sat above the original bookshop’s door.

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Bodley's Ghost

Today a URL was built of stone.

Though teaching on the site can be dated back to the late 11th century, Oxford University wasn’t a serious national institution until 1167 when King Henry II banned his citizens from attending a competing college in Paris…

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QUOD FELICITER VORTAT ACADEMICI OXONIENS BIBLIOTHECAM HANC VOBIS REIPUBLICAEQUE LITERATORUM

T(HOMAS). B(ODLEY). P(OSUIT).

From the inscription above the Proscholium of the Old Bodleian.