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Through the looking glass

Through the looking glass

Charles Dodgson and his illustrator John Tenniel no doubt saw the ‘Caedmon’ manuscript on display in the Bodleian (it appears in an exhibits list of 1868). The figural style of its illustrations with …

Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi

‘Oxford taught me to value humankind’, said the pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on receiving her honorary Doctorate of Civil Law in 2012. She had studied here in the 1960s, and catalogued Burmes …

Astronomicum Caesareum

Astronomicum Caesareum

Apian sought to make astronomy easy, in this lavish book for royal patrons. He reduced complex astronomical computation to simple mechanics with the aid of paper volvelles – those pictured are for Mar …

Charles I’s request

Charles I’s request

Bodley’s Librarian John Rouse proved a most determined guardian of the Bodleian’s books. In 1645, he received a note from Charles I asking to borrow a world history by the French poet and chronicler A …

Frost fair souvenir

Frost fair souvenir

This souvenir was printed on the Thames, after it froze on Christmas Day 1739. A fair on the ice offered an ox roast, bear-baiting, skating, a children’s roundabout, toyshop, goldsmiths, turners, mill …

Magna Carta

Magna Carta

These are original engrossments of the 1217 issue of the Great Charter, sent by the royal chancery to Oxfordshire. Henry III, who was ten years old and too young to put his own seal to it, reissued th …