#Bodleian Library in Oxford

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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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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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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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Peregrinatio in terram sanctam //

c. 1400

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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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January 18, 2024

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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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When you give librarians a little free time...

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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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doing some studying in the radcam before my course starts :)

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Oxford ✨

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Lost in the mysterious past among the glowing blues, golds, and browns of Oxford’s Duke Humfrey library. 📚🌠