The Bodleian Library at Oxford

• 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, 18n, 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, 16n
• — 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, 30n
• — 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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