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May 2014 Book of the Month: The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser (1758)
Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene is an ambitious, landmark work in the development of a rich tradition of English literature. The title page of The Faerie Queene: Fellows’ Library N.8.20-21 Gall. (©...
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A Day in the Life of a Graduate Library Trainee
Several college libraries in Oxford take part in the Bodleian’s training scheme for graduates (of any university) intending to become professional librarians. The third trainee at Jesus College is Emma...
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June 2014 Book of the Month: Insectorum by Thomas Moffet (1634)
Title-page of the Insectorum: Fellows’ Library L.6.5 Gall. (© Jesus College, Oxford) Each of the Insectorum’s four contributing authors died before this encyclopaedia of insects was finally brought to...
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July 2014 Book of the Month: Law Quibbles by Anonymous (1726)
Title-page of Law Quibbles: Fellows’ Library R.9.9 (© Jesus College, Oxford) Law Quibbles promises to demystify jargon and expose abuses of legal practice for ‘the Publick Good’. Importantly, the...
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Provenance Evidence in the Fellows’ Library
As part of my year as a graduate library trainee, I have been encouraged to work on a project which will benefit Jesus College’s libraries. I opted to look at the provenance — or ownership history — of...
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August 2014 Book of the Month: Medicatrix by Mary Trye (1675)
Title-page of Medicatrix: Fellows’ Library R.3.32 Gall (© Jesus College, Oxford) Medicatrix is a rare example of a medical text written by a woman in the early modern period. It is a dogged vindication...
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Book marks
Liber Collegij Jesu Ex dono Amplissimi Honoratissimiq[ue] Viri Edovardi Herbert Baronis de Cherbury: Fellows’ Library L.1.23 Gall. (© Jesus College, Oxford) Last month, we shared the fruits of this...
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September 2014 Book of the Month: Psalmes, Songs, and Sonnets by William Byrd...
Flyleaf and title-page of Psalmes, Songs, and Sonnets: Fellows’ Library I.Arch 2.3 (© Jesus College, Oxford) This collection of songs was among the later publications of William Byrd, Gentleman of the...
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Gifts of tongues
Nouvelle Revue française editions from the collection of William Bell (© Jesus College, Oxford) Two substantial gifts of books in modern languages have come to the College this summer. The first is a...
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October 2014 Book of the Month: A True and Faithful Relation of What Passed...
Title-page and frontispiece of A True and Faithful Relation…with portraits of Kelly and Dee: Fellows’ Library N.9.19 Gall (© Jesus College, Oxford) The spiritual diaries of the mathematician and magus...
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November 2014 Book of the Month: Mathematicall Magick by John Wilkins (1648)
Title-page of Mathematicall Magick: Fellows’ Library L.3.11 Gall. (© Jesus College, Oxford) Mathematicall Magick proclaims itself the first text on mechanics written in English. Using ideas indebted to...
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December 2014 Book of the Month: The History of Lapland by John Scheffer (1674)
Title-page of The History of Lapland: Fellows’ Library P.5.20 (© Jesus College, Oxford) The History of Lapland is the first anthropological publication from Oxford University Press. Written by a...
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January 2015 Book of the Month: Dr. Bentley’s Dissertation on the Epistles of...
Title-page of Boyle against Bentley: Fellows’ Library K.11.16 (© Jesus College, Oxford) Better known as Boyle against Bentley, this book represents a collective effort to discredit the King’s...
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February 2015 Book of the Month: The Philosophical Transactions Abridged (1733)
The abridgement of the Philosophical Transactions: Fellows’ Library O.5.6 Gall. (© Jesus College, Oxford) Simon Hibble (Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry) writes: These pages show the first reports in...
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A book for each month
The following article by Owen McKnight appears in the 2014 Jesus College Record. A selection of Books of the Month on show for National Libraries Day (© Jesus College, Oxford) The Fellows’ Library is...
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Celtic connections
The following piece by Janet Foot (Celtic Studies, 1984) is reproduced from the Taylor Institution Library blog with permission from the Bodleian Libraries. In April 2014 I was approached by Shu-Ching...
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March 2015 Book of the Month: An Teagasg Criosdaidhe (1707)
Title-page of An Teagasg Criosdaidhe: Fellows’ Library II Arch.2.31 (© Jesus College, Oxford) An Teagasg Criosdaidhe is the material incarnation of the complex and fascinating history of Irish...
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April 2015 Book of the Month: A Catalogue of Books Printed at the Theater in...
A Catalogue of Books Printed at the Theater in Oxford (recto): Fellows’ Library R.9.7(30a) Gall. (© Jesus College, Oxford) This unique advertisement for Oxford University Press was discovered in the...
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May 2015 Book of the Month: Theocriti, Moschi, Bionis, Simmii quæ extant (1604)
Title-page: Fellows’ Library K.16.19 (© Jesus College, Oxford) This collection of the ancient Greek ‘bucolic’ or pastoral poets is open to show one of Simmias of Rhodes’ pattern-poems, that is, verses...
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Lawrence in the Library
Today is the 80th anniversary of the untimely death of T.E. Lawrence, the archaeologist and adventurer renowned as ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, who read Modern History at Jesus College between 1907 and 1910....
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