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On Nov. 9, 1880, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott was born. He was an English architect who designed the main libraries at Oxford and Cambridge, and Battersea Power station in London (remember Pink Floyd’s “Animals” album cover). He also designed the iconic red phone boxes.
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'Decoration on [a2r]: Contemporary Bolognese decoration; border, edged in gold, with reserved white vine-stem scrolling, defined in yellow, on a background of red, blue, and green, with white dots in groups of three. Two gold-edged roundels, one contains a brown duck, with a blue wing, on a background of blue sky and green ground; the second contains, on the same background, the coat of arms described below. In the panel formed within the border is the text, beginning with a three-line initial ‘O' in gold, over a red background, decorated delicately in white, and incorporated into the border; see Pächt and Alexander II, 113 no. pr. 123. Some two- and three-line initials, and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue.' Bod-Inc [incunables.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/record/A-339]
Radcliffe Camera 1737-48. Built at a cost of £40,000 donated by the charitable trust of John Radcliffe, a wealthy physician to William III. It was the first round library in the country. The rotunda was originally the idea of the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor but the work was interpreted by James Gibbs. It has one of the finest Classical interiors in England with the plasterwork in the upper room particularly excellent. Radcliffe Square (Bodleian Library), OX1 3BG