The Bodleian Library at Oxford

by Falconer Madan

[23] Falconer Madan, matr. from Brasenose, 1870; M.A., 1877; Fellow, 1876-80 and 1889-1902; Hon. Fellow from 1912. Sub-Librarian, 1880-1912; Librarian, 1912-19.

[24] Two members fell in action, R. A. Abrams, M.A., a Senior Assistant, and H. G. Dunn, a member of the Extra Staff, both lieutenants.

[25] Arthur Ernest Cowley, matr. from Trinity, 1879; D.Litt., 1908; Fellow of Magdalen from 1902. Assistant Sub-Librarian, 1896-9; Sub-Librarian, 1900-19; Librarian from 1919.

[26] Full details of all the Catalogues are in the Manual for Readers, mentioned above.

[27] All these are enumerated in R. G. C. Proctor’s Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum, 1898-1900. The Caxtons are fully described in De Ricci’s Census of Caxtons, 19.

[28] The latest works on the subject are Professor A. C. Clark’s Descent of MSS. (1919) and (with a wider scope) F. W. Hall’s Companion to Classical Texts (1913).

INDEX

• Agar, Ralph, [48]
• Alexander, Romance of, [51]
• Allibond, Dr. John, [25]
• America. See [United States]
• Ashmole colln., [35], [53]
• Aubrey MSS., [53]
• Backhouse MSS., [54]
• “Baggage books,” [19]
• Ball, Anne, [16]
• Ballard MSS., [51]
• Barlow colln., [29], [50]
• Barlow, Bp. Thomas, Bodley’s Librarian (d. 1691), [25]
• Bandinel, Dr. Bulkeley, Bodley’s Librarian (d. 1861), [31-4]
• Barocci MSS., [24], [50]
• Bay Psalm book, [56]
• Beckwith MSS., [52]
• Bede, the Venerable, [24], [44]
• Benedictine Order, [8]
• Berlin library, [12]
• Bernard colln., [51]
• Bernard, Dr. Edward, [27], [28], [42]
• Bible, the Mazarine, [31]
• — N.T.—Gospels (Codex O, Latin), [51]; (MacRegol), [51]
• — — Acts (Codex E, Greek), [45]
• Blakeway MSS., [53]
• Blomefield MSS., [52]
• Bodleian Library—Bodley’s offer to found it (1598), [16]
• — position among other libraries, [12]
• — stages of its history, see [list of contents]
• — Admission, [13], [20], [41]
• — Arts End, [21], [38]
• — Associations and Attractions, [42-8], [57-8]
• — Number of books, [13], [27], [39]
• — Books (order on shelves, 1605), [19], [38]
• — Oldest printed book, [49]
• — Printed books, [29], [54-5]
• — List of chief books in it, [64]
• — Buildings, [37-9]
• — Buildings, plan of, [frontispiece]
• — Camera, [31], [34], [36], [39]
• — Catalogues—First printed (1605), [19]
• — — Second printed (1620), [23]
• — — Third printed (1674), [26]
• — — Fourth printed (1738), [29]
• — — Fifth printed (1843-51), [33]
• — — Present Catalogue of Printed Books, [35], [42]
• — — Bernard’s “Old Catalogue” of MSS. (1697), [27], [42]
• — — Oriental MSS. (1787-1835), [31]
• — — Quarto series, [33], [42]
• — — Subject Catalogue, [19]
• — — Summary Catalogue, [33], [42]
• — Catalogue Revision, [36], [37]
• — Charters and Rolls, [13], [35]
• — Collections and special MSS. See under their names
• — Curators, [40]
• — Days and Hours of opening, [20], [32], [41]
• — Dissertations, [33]
• — “Duke Humphrey.” See [Reading Room, Old]
• — Finance, [42], [18]n, [21], [28]
• — Incunabula and Blockbooks, [55]
• — Janitor, [20], [40]
• — Languages represented (1605), [22]
• — Lending out books, [20], [25], [42]
• — Bodley’s Librarian, [18], [20], [40]
• — Smallest Manuscript, [47]
• — Classical Manuscripts (statistics), [49]
• — Noteworthy Manuscripts, [49-54] and passim.
• — Oldest complete Manuscript, [49]
• — Early names, [16]n
• — Oratio Bodleiana, [41]
• — Picture Gallery, [8], [21], [36], [38]
• — Pictures and Coins, [56]
• — Contents of the Quadrangle, [38]
• — Readers, [41]
• — Old Reading Room, [10], [14], [17], [38]
• — Upper Reading Room, [36]
• — Registrum Benefactorum, [21]
• — Materials for research, [62-3]
• — Selden End, [10], [24], [26], [38]
• — Statistics of size, [13]
• — Staff (Officers, Assistants, Extra Staff, etc.), [20], [35], [40]
• — Statutes, [20], [36]
• — Sub-Librarians, [20], [40]
• — Underground Bookstore, [36], [39]
• — Underkeeper, [20]
• — Effect of the War, [37]
• — Warming, [32]
• Bodleian Quarterly Record, [37]
• Bodley, Mrs. Anne, née Carey, [16]
• Bodley, Sir Thomas, [15-21]
• Books, earliest, [7]
• — Early forms of, [8]
• Boreal MSS., [53]
• Bowen MSS., [52]
• Bowles, Joseph, Bodley’s Librarian (d. 1729), [28]
• Bradley MSS., [52]
• Brassey, Earl, [36]
• Brett MSS., [54]
• Bridge MSS., [52]
• British Museum, [8], [11], [15], [23], [42], [44]
• Browne Willis MSS., [52]
• Bruce MSS., [53]
• Burton, Robert, [24]
• Burton, William, [24]
• Bywater, Ingram, [36]
• Cædmon, [44]
• Cambridge, unique earliest view of, [48]
• — University Library, [15], [29], [44], [45]
• Canonici MSS., [52]
• Carey, Anne, [16]
• Carte MSS., [29], [51]
• Casaubon MSS., [26], [50]
• Catullus, [52]
• “Century of Great Donations,” [28]
• Chandra MSS., [36], [54]
• Chanson de Roland, [50]
• Charles I, King, [25]
• Charles II, King, [27], [47]
• Chinese, [22], [36]
• Clarendon, 1st Earl of, [30], [47], [52]
• Clarke (E.D.) MSS., [52]
• Clarke (W.N.) MSS., [53]
• Cobham, Bp. Thomas de, [14]
• Codex E of the Acts, [50]
• Codex Ebnerianus, [54]
• Codex O of the Latin Gospels, [51]
• Confucius, [49]
• Copyright Acts, [20]
• Cotton, Sir Robert, [8], [21]
• Cowley, Dr. Arthur Ernest, Bodley’s Librarian (1919-), [37]
• Coxe, Rev. Henry Octavius, Bodley’s Librarian (d. 1881), [34-5]
• Crevenna sale (1780), [31]
• Cromwell MSS., [24], [29], [50]
• Cromwell, Oliver, [25]
• Dawkins MSS., [52]
• Deposit, libraries of, [10], [56]
• Digby MSS., [24], [50]
• Dodsworth MSS., [26], [50]
• D’Orville MSS., [52]
• Dugdale MSS., [53]
• Dunstan, St., [21]
• “Duke Humphrey.” See [Bodleian Library—Old Reading Room]
• Earliest English musical composition, [51]
• Elliott MSS., [53]
• Ethelred Tropary, [51]
• Euclid (A.D. 888), [52]
• Evans, Sir Arthur John, [58]
• Exeter Cathedral MSS., [21], [49]
• Fairfax MSS., [26], [50]
• Fairfax, Lord, [25]
• Foyle, Messrs., of London, [12]
• Furney MSS., [52]
• Fysher, Robert, Bodley’s Librarian (d. 1747), [28-9]
• Gaignières drawings, [52]
• Gentoo. See [Sanskrit]
• Georgian books, [55]
• Gloucester, Humphrey Duke of, [14]
• Gospel-book of St. Margaret of Scotland, [45]
• Gough colln., [52]
• Gower MSS., [54]
• Gowland, William, [59]
• Grangerism, [48]
• Hallam MSS., [54]
• Hamond, John, [48]
• Hatton MSS., [26], [50]
• Hearne, Thomas, [28-30], [52]
• Heather, Dr. William, [31]
• Hebrew, [33]
• Herculanean papyri, [54]
• Hereford, [10]
• Holman’s Essex MSS., [52]
• Holmes MSS., [52]
• Hope collection of Engraved Portraits, [38]
• Hope, Sir William St. John, [60]
• Hudson, Dr. John, Bodley’s Librarian (d. 1719), [28]
• Hultzsch MSS., [54]
• Hunt MSS., [52]
• Huntington MSS., [26], [50]
• Hutchison MSS., [52]
• Hyde, Dr. Thomas, Bodley’s Librarian (d. 1703), [26]
• James I, King, [18]
• James, Dr. Thomas, Bodley’s Librarian (d. 1629), [17-23]
• Jerome’s Chronicle of Eusebius, [53]
• John, King, [60-2]
• Jones MSS., [51]
• Junius MSS., [26], [50]
• King’s Quair, [50]
• Laud MSS., [24], [50]
• Laud, Archbp. William, [24], [50]
• Lectern System, in libraries, [9]
• Leland, John, [24]
• Le Neve MSS., [52]
• Leofric Missal, [21], [49]
• “Librarian,” classical terms for, [14]
• Libraries, earliest, [7-8]
• — mediæval, [8-10]
• — kinds of, [10-12]
• — statistics of great, [12]
• Library Association, [35]
• Lister colln., [53]
• Lockey, Dr. Thomas, Bodley’s Librarian (d. 1679), [26]
• London, unique earliest view of, [48]
• — See [British Museum]
• Longest poem in the world, [54]
• Luther literature, [55]
• MacRegol Gospels, [51]
• Madan, Falconer, Bodley’s Librarian (1912-19), [36-7]
• Malone collns., [53]
• Margaret, St., Queen of Scotland, [46]
• Marsh MSS., [27], [51]
• Marshall colln., [29], [50]
• Mason MSS., [52]
• Meerman MSS., [53]
• Mendoza Codex, [50]
• Merle, William de, [24], [50]
• Mexican records, [50], [56]
• Michael MSS., [53]
• Mill MSS., [53]
• Milles MSS., [53]
• Milton, John, [47]
• Modern study, its methods and materials, [57-62]
• Montagu colln., [53]
• Morris, Dr. John, [41]
• Munich library, [12]
• Music (perh. the earliest English composition), [51]
• Music School MSS., [36], [54]
• Nettleship, Prof. Henry, [33]
• Nichols Newspapers, [55]
• Nicholson, Edward Williams Byron, Bodley’s Librarian (d. 1912), [35-6]
• Nicoll, Alexander, [31]
• Onomatopœia, [7]
• Oppenheimer colln., [33], [53]
• Oriental MSS., etc., [22], [31], [33], [36]
• Ormesby Psalter, [53]
• Ormulum, [50]
• Ouseley MSS., [53]
• Owen, Dr. Humphrey, Bodley’s Librarian (d. 1768), [29-30]
• Oxford. See [Bodleian Library]
• — unique earliest view of, [48]
• — Ashmolean Museum, [56]
• — Clarendon Press, [30], [36]
• — Colleges (loan of MSS.), [36]
• — Corpus Christi college, [10]
• — Examination schools, [36], [39]
• — Jesus college, [30]n
• — Magdalen college, [15]
• — Old Ashmolean Basement, [36], [39]
• — Oriel college, [14]
• — Radcliffe Camera. See [Bodleian Library—Camera]
• — Schools Quadrangle, [31]
• — Sheldonian Theatre and Basement, [36], [39]
• — University libraries, old, [14]
• Oxford Barbers’ company, [54]
• Oxford Diocesan papers, [35], [54]
• Oxford University Endowment Fund, [36]
• Paris, [26]
• — National library, [12], [15]
• Parliament at Oxford (1681), [27]
• Pegge MSS., [52]
• Pembroke, Earl of, [24]
• Pepys MSS., [30], [51]
• Peterborough, [24]
• Petrograd library, [12]
• Photography, [36]
• Pictograms, [7]
• Pinelli sale (1789), [31]
• Plato (A.D. 895), [52]
• Pococke MSS., [26], [50]
• Price, John, Bodley’s Librarian (d. 1813), [30]
• Pusey, Edw. Bouverie, [31]
• Rawlinson colln., [30], [51]
• Reference, libraries of, [10], ([56])
• Rich, Jeremiah, [47]
• Roe MSS., [24], [50]
• Roland, Chanson de, [50]
• Rolls of papyrus, etc., [8]
• Romance of Alexander, [51]
• Rome. See [Vatican library]
• Rouse, John, Bodley’s Librarian (d. 1652), [24-5], [47]
• Saibante MSS., [53]
• St. Amand colln., [51]
• Sancroft MSS., [29]
• Sanskrit (“Gentoo”), [26], [36]
• Savile colln., [36], [49], [54]
• Sayings of Our Lord, [44]
• Schoolboy’s Letter, [44]
• Selden colln., [25], [50]
• Send, monument of, [7]
• Shakespeare, William, [23], [29], [32], [46], [54] (signature), [55] (bis), [56]
• Sheldon MSS., [54]
• Shelley MSS., [36], [54]
• Speech, early, [7]
• Stall system, in libraries, [9]
• Stationers Company, London, [20]
• Stonehenge, [58-60]
• Sutherland Collection, [48]
• Tamil MSS., [53]
• Tanner colln., [29], [51]
• Tapestry maps, [32]
• Thurloe MSS., [30], [51]
• Tractatus Lutherani, [55]
• Turbutt Shakespeare, [46]
• Turner MSS., [54]
• Turner, Will. Henry, [35]
• Twyne MSS., [49]
• United States libraries, [12-13]
• Uri, Johann, [31]
• Ussher’s Collectanea, [52]
• Vatican Library, [12]
• Venice, [21]
• Vernon MS., [51]
• Vienna library, [12]
• Walker (A.) MSS., [53]
• Walker (John) MSS., [29], [51]
• Wall system, in libraries, [10]
• Wang Hsi Chih, [49]
• Wardrop colln., [55]
• Wash, the, [60-62]
• Watson MSS., [54]
• Wight MSS., [52]
• Willis MSS., [52]
• Wilson MSS., [53]
• Windsor MSS, [22], [49]
• Wood colln., [53]
• Writing, earliest, [7]
• Würzburg, [24]
• Wyngaerde, Antonio van den, [48]

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