#Bodleian Library

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Bodleian Library. Oxford University.

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Book of Hours. French, 1400’s

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... endless amount of knowledge ...

Bodleian Library is the main library of Oxford University, one of the oldest libraries in Europe and the UK and the second largest library with more than 12 million books.....

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Matthew Goode being studious and roaming libraries

(Incidently both are supposed to be the Bodleian in Oxford).

Many similarities and also vastly different characters and vibes (testament to Matthew's incredible acting that he so disappears into his character).

Certainly Professor Lewis is far more serious than Professor Clairmont and not trying to cause mischief with a certain witch 😆

📷 My edits from Freud's Last Session (2023) official trailer and film* (West End Films/Sony Pictures Classics)

* In the trailer, we have a front view of Lewis walking through the library but a backview in the film. Whose idea was that 😭

Also, deleted scene (from script): "51 EXT. OXFORD. Lewis walks through Oxford to the doors of Bodleian Library."

Missed opportunity to have yet another shot of Matthew in front of the Bodley

📷 A Discovery of Witches s1 (2018) on set stills (Sky/Bad Wolf)

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The Duke Humfrey’s Library - the oldest reading room in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.

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24 March 2025 | The Bodleian Library, Oxford 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

A wonderful visit with Richard Lawrence at the Bodleian Library’s Bibliographical Press, where peering out windows set in 24” thick 400 year-old stone walls is enough to send a mind spinning centuries back in time.

From the top, and left to right: Mr Lawrence in the typesetting area; four stations of upper and lowercase 14 pt Caslon; another four stations of the same 14 pt Caslon on top of 400 year-old stands; Richard and partner Alex tidying up the room in preparation for a class of fourteen students from Lincoln College (I didn’t really know this was coming, my hat and coat still on the table); Richard lecturing those students and giving instruction as to how they (we) will proceed in sharing those eight stations to set two Shakespeare sonnets and print them on a mid-sized hand press in less than two hours; post-typesetting (which I was invited to help oversee and teach); Richard demonstrates how to print before turning it over to the students and having each print their own; the beautiful mid-sized Albion Press that was employed to print the sonnets, and finally, looking up a the library tower after leaving the pressroom in the twilight, heading to the pub for a pint and a meal.

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view from my workspace | the Old Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

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just finished my first wk of uni, which means it's abt time to return to studyblr after being on hiatus for years (?!?) 🥲

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

CLARE LEIGHTON

Here are a few engravings from a recent acquisition for our reference collection on the engravings of English/American artist, writer, and illustrator Clare Leighton (1898-1989), Clare Leighton's Rural Life: An Anthology, published in Oxford by the Bodleian Library in 2023. The book was edited with an introduction by Leighton's devoted nephew David Leighton (1931-2022), who sadly did not live to see its publication. Clare Leighton was one of the most prolific and highly regarded wood engravers of her time, leaving behind a body of work that reflected her rural life in Britain and North America.

During the 1930s, as the world around her became increasingly technological, industrial, and urban, Leighton portrayed rural folk and the ancient methods they used to work the land that would soon vanish forever. Her two best-loved publications, Four Hedges (1931) and The Farmer's Year (1933), reflect this passion for the British countryside. Less well known are her books illustrating and describing rural life in the United States, where she emigrated and became a naturalized citizen in 1945. Leighton also spent time in Canada with the logging community, winning the respect of Canadian lumberjacks by adopting their way of life. Her wood engravings depicting lumberjacks in the snow-covered forests of Canada are some of her most evocative prints.

This anthology includes beautifully reproduced extracts and David Leighton's detailed introduction to the artist's life and work, reflecting Clare Leighton's lifelong fascination with the virtues of the countryside and the people who worked the land.

View more posts with work by Clare Leighton.

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View more posts with wood engravings!

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Percy Shelley doodling while helping his wife edit the draft of her first novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818):

The idea for the story was devised in mid-June 1816. The draft shown here was written between August and December 1816, and it was revised until April 1817. The book was published January 1st 1818 when Mary was 20-years-old. She was only 18 when she conceived the story, as her 19th birthday was on August 30th 1816.

Source: The Shelley-Godwin Archive online

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So hot in Oxford during the last days of term 🌿☀️! I left my stifling reading nook in the Bodleian and went wandering about the quiet quads of Exeter College. In a dreamy haze I pictured the days long ago when the College was shaken by a case of witchcraft on this very spot 💫!

I've written about Exeter's strange case of witchcraft here 🌟!

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Peregrinatio in terram sanctam //

c. 1400

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The Bodleian Library with the Tower of the Five Orders, Oxford

The Tower of the Five Orders, completed in 1619, is named so because it has the five orders of columns of classical architecture.

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A BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER (1689) and BIBLE (1640)

Bound in one volume and embroidered with silk and coloured threads. On the upper cover: Plenty with her cornucopia. On the lower cover: Peace with an olive branch. Several examples of this design are known. The sun's rays are small strips of metal held down by cross stitches.

Held by the Bodleian Library

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This is one part of The Duke Humfrey's Library which was added by Sir Thomas Bodley (who the Bodleian is now named after) who offered to restore it in 1598. When he was attending Oxford University, the library did not even have a ceiling as it had been stripped and abandoned during the Reformation.

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Another Country Marek Kanievska. 1985

Memorial Bodleian Library, Broad St, Oxford OX1 3BG, UK See in map

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