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End of the battle against Darius, who retreats.
MS. Laud Misc. 751, fol. 045r
Made for Engelbert of Nassau; Flemish c. 1470-1480
The excellent and fascinating Dr. Martin Kauffmann gives us a "tour" of the 13th Century illustrated "Notitia Dignitatum".
The British Art Medal Society conference, 2016.
Taken with Panasonic-Leica Elmarit 45mm f2.8 Macro lens on Panasonic GX7.
Polemon pardoned. Turreted and castellated buildings.
MS. Laud Misc. 751, fol. 155v
Made for Engelbert of Nassau; Flemish c. 1470-1480
Sir Thomas Bodley, founder of the library, kept his belonging in this strongbox. This is the intricate lock in the lid.
On behalf of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea, Minister Counsellor Kim, Director of the Korean Cultural Centre UK attended the formal opening of 'Window On Korea'. This new resource offers a permanent home to the Oriental Institute - Bodleian Library's impressive Korea collection and has been complimented by a generous donation of an additional 5,000 Books by the National Library of Korea.
Director Kim was accompanied by the Director of the National Library of Korea , Ms. Kim Nam-Sook and also Ms. Kwon Jung-Im.
New Gargoyles (technically Grotesques as they are not used for drainage) unveiled at the Bodleian on Saturday. More details www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/news/2009_sept_12
Top Row
Dodo - George O'Connor
General Pitt Rivers - Kerrie Chambers
Three Men in a Boat - Henry Chadwick
Middle Row
From Myths to Monsters - Alex Sermon
Tweedledum and Tweedledee - Eva Masmanian
Wild Boar - Ben Bryant
Bottom Row:
Green Man - Hannah Duckworth
Sir Thomas Bodley - Alfie Turner
Aslan - Hayley Williams
The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford and is one of the oldest libraries in Europe. With over 12 million items it is the second biggest library in Britain after the British Library. Under the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 it is one of six legal deposit libraries for works published in the United Kingdom and under Irish Law it is entitled to request a copy of each book published in the Republic of Ireland. Known to Oxford scholars as "Bodley" or "the Bod", it operates principally as a reference library and, in general, documents may not be removed from the reading rooms.
The Clarendon Building, which used to house the Oxford University Press, and I think is now office space for the Bodleian library....
The statues on top are the Muses (I think).
This is a photomerge, so the perspective's a bit goofy, but I managed to not actually get the whole building in one shot.
Well, that was a different 'Bicester' day! Sure enough, we started off in Bicester, but all got the train to Oxford, and visited a shoe shop (to get the girls' feet measured, but no shoes needed yet), the Oxford Museum of Natural History (or the 'dinosaur museum' as many people know it) and The Story Museum. It was great to be back in Oxford, especially to parts which I hadn't visited since moving from the area in 2016. It's impossible to pass the Sheldonian Theatre on a sunny day and not take a photo! The Story Museum was fun - a story to start and finish the hour, and lots of play in between, in various areas with props and scenes, and a craft activity. We all got back exhausted but having had a fun day out together. The biggest surprise of the day was bumping into an old friend from Oxford, while I was changing Smaller Miss's nappy at the dinosaur museum, and Marion was there with her little granddaughter. Too chaotic to have much of a chat, but a real joy, nonetheless.
Mike & I stopped off at The Sherborne Arms for our meal on the way home, which was also lovely.
Reflection of All Souls College. Oxford April 2012
Nikon D3s with Nikkor 20mm 2.8 Ais rectilinear lens
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At the entrance to the Bodleian Library, the bronze statue of William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, Chancellor of the University 1617-30.
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Excellent 41-minute video of the Bodleian talk by Geoffrey Tyack, November 2022---
The Historic Heart of Oxford University
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Early morning in Radcliffe Square. The lamp is actually a security camera and it followed my every move.
A heavily-illustrated, twelfth century English manuscript most famous for containing a Latin version of "The Wonders of the East."
It is associated with London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B. v, although it is hard to tell whether the Tiberius is the direct parent or a distant grandparent of 614.
This is a complicated illustration involving six different constellations: Top, left: Bootes/Arctophilax. a man holding a curved club, hand outstretched, other hand extended. Top middle/right: a serpent curling around two other beasts, representing Draco/Serpens curling between Ursa Major (helyce) and Ursa Mino (cynosure). They are bounded by a roundel with an ochre background, stars in gold. Bottom right: a woman holding a staff in her right hand and a wheel bordered in stars in her left. (Corona borealis? The legend is about woman loved by bacchus and Theseus gets involved.)
This shot of an archway into the Bodleian Library is maybe a case of right place, right time, right light but wrong people. Some days people in academic gowns are ten a penny, other days you'd be hanging around for ages waiting for one to walk into shot.
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Excellent 41-minute video of the Bodleian talk by Geoffrey Tyack, November 2022---
The Historic Heart of Oxford University
Wikipedia description of the Bodleian Library
From Wikipedia
"[The] tower forms the main entrance to the library, and is known as the Tower of the Five Orders. The Tower is so named because it is ornamented, in ascending order, with the columns of each of the five orders of classical architecture: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite."
This photo shows the top two orders, Corinthian and Composite.
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The ceiling of Divinity Schools has to be both one of the prettiest and most famous bits of old Oxford building*. I love it. And I must go back with my zoom lens some day to get some of the detail.
*Note: may also look really familiar from Harry Potter films.
A masterpiece of late Gothic architecture: the ceiling of the Divinity School at the Bodleian Library Oxford.
The obligatory tourist photo of Divinity Schools, taken at the start of a tour of the Bodleian (sadly, no photos allowed inside Duke Humfrey's library inside, which is definitely the coolest bit).
Duns Scotus's Oxford
by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89)
Towery city and branchy between towers;
Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark-charmèd, rook-racked, river-rounded;
The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country and town did
Once encounter in, here coped and poisèd powers;
Thou hast a base and brickish skirt there, sours
That neighbour-nature thy grey beauty is grounded
Best in; graceless growth, thou hast confounded
Rural rural keeping--folk, flocks, and flowers.
Yet ah! this air I gather and I release
He lived on; these weeds and waters, these walls are what
He haunted who of all men most sways my spirits to peace;
Of realty the rarest-veinèd unraveller; a not
Rivalled insight, be rival Italy or Greece;
Who fired France for Mary without spot.
Bodleian Library. Opened in 1602 the library is the oldest public library in Europe. The Bodleian although justly the most famous library was not the first library in Oxford. The library is of course named after Thomas Bodley (1545-1613) See Sir Nicholas' Stone's well known monument to him in Merton College Chapel. The Library may have been the work of John Akroyd of Halifax and John Bentley. In the big panel is depicted James 1st seated under a niche. The whole appearance of the face on the inner courtyard is magnificent and bears close study. The fine detailing corresponds to the fine strap-work and carving on funerary monuments of a similar date.
After all the noise of the World Pillow Fight it's time for a little quiet. There may be a few more pillow fight photos coming later though...
Probably my first and accidental capture of street photography or 'in the moment' photo. This was on a visit to Oxford back in 2015. I had just walked past The Sheldonian Theatre taking in the sights, before finding myself standing in front of the arches of the Bodleain Library.
It was fairly dark and I did a quick glancing shot, as I was running out of daylight fast. I hadn't realised the pair in the shot until immediately after taking the picture. They appear to be admiring the building across each other's field of vision. Are they tourists? Family members? Friends?