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==Treasures of the library== {{more citations needed|section|date=November 2018}}<!--most entries not cited--> [[File:Divinity School Interior 2, Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK - Diliff.jpg|thumb|right|Divinity School interior]] [[File:Duke Humfrey's Library Interior 5, Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK - Diliff.jpg|thumb|right|Duke Humfrey's Library interior]] ===Manuscript collections=== * The Ashmole Manuscripts (including the [[Ashmole Bestiary]]), collected by [[Elias Ashmole]] * The [[Carte Manuscripts]], collected by [[Thomas Carte]] (1686–1754) * The Douce Manuscripts, donated to the library by [[Francis Douce]] in 1834 * The Laud Manuscripts, donated to the library by [[William Laud|Archbishop William Laud]] between 1635 and 1640 * The letters of the poet [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] * The [[Drower Collection]] (DC), donated by [[E. S. Drower]], is the world's most extensive collection of [[list of Mandaean scriptures|Mandaean manuscripts]].<ref name="Archives Hub">[https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/7e0b27da-329f-3ac3-9664-7c70398be5c1 Mandaean manuscripts given by Lady Ethel May Stefana Drower]. Archives Hub.</ref> ===Individual manuscripts=== * [[Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein, BWV 128]] cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach * [[Abingdon Abbey|Abingdon Missal]], illuminated manuscript produced at [[Abingdon Abbey]] (15th century) * [[Ashmole Bestiary]], English illuminated manuscript [[Bestiary]] with allegorical descriptions of over 100 animals (12th century) * [[Bakhshali manuscript]], [[Bower Manuscript]] and [[Weber Manuscript]] of ancient Sanskrit texts (4th–6th centuries) * [[Bruce Codex]], [[Coptic language|Coptic]] manuscript, one of three surviving codices containing full copies of all of the gnostic writings (6th century) * [[Bujangga Manik]], early [[palm-leaf manuscript]] of [[Old Sundanese language|Old Sundanese literature]] from Java (15th century) * [[Cædmon's Hymn]], a short Old English poem attributed to [[Cædmon]] (11th century) * [[Codex Bodley]], important and rare [[precolumbian]] pictographic manuscript and example of Mixtec historiography (14th–15th centuries) * [[Codex Ebnerianus]], [[Greek language]] [[illuminated manuscript]] of the [[New Testament]] (12th century) * [[Codex Laudianus]], [[Greek language|Greek]] [[uncial]] [[manuscript]] of the [[New Testament]] (6th century) * [[Codex Laud]], pictorial manuscript consisting of 24 leaves from Central Mexico (16th century) * [[Codex Mendoza]], [[Aztec codices|Aztec codex]] containing a history of both the Aztec rulers and their conquest (16th century) * [[Codex Selden]] [[precolumbian]] pictorial manuscript of Mixtec origin (16th century) * [[Codex Tischendorfianus III]], Greek [[uncial]] [[manuscript]] of the [[Gospels]] named after [[Constantin von Tischendorf]] (9th–10th centuries) * [[Codex Tischendorfianus IV]], Greek [[uncial]] [[manuscript]] of the [[Gospels]] (10th century) * [[Book of Hours of Engelbert of Nassau]] illuminated by the [[Master of Mary of Burgundy]] for [[Engelbert II of Nassau]], Flanders (15th century) * The [[Bodleian Library, MS Fairfax 16|Fairfax MS 16]], Middle English poetic anthology (15th century) * [[Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502|Book of Glendalough]], one of the three major surviving Irish manuscripts from pre-Norman Ireland (12th century) * [[Hebban olla vogala]], long considered to be the only example of [[Old Dutch]] in existence (12th century) * Four fragmented scrolls from the [[Herculaneum papyri]] that survived the [[Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD|Eruption of Mount Vesuvius]] * The [[Huntington MS 17]], the oldest manuscript with complete text of the four Gospels in [[Coptic language|Bohairic]] (Coptic) (12th century) * [[Annals of Inisfallen]], chronicle of the medieval history of [[Ireland]] (11th century) * [[Kennicott Bible]], one of the most exquisite illuminated manuscripts in the [[Hebrew language]] from [[A Coruña]], Spain (15th century) * [[Leofric Missal]], illuminated manuscript [[sacramentary]] from [[Lotharingia]] (10th–11th centuries) * Hours of Louis Quarré, illuminated manuscript attributed to [[Alexander Bening]] (15th century) * Ormesby Psalter, magnificent example of an English illuminated manuscript from [[Norwich]] (14th century) * [[Peterborough Chronicle]], one of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]s, originally held by the monks of [[Peterborough Abbey]] in [[Cambridgeshire]] (12th century) * Illuminated Gospel Book of [[Saint Margaret of Scotland]] (11th century) * [[Selden Roll]], Mexican manuscript painted roll from the [[Coixtlahuaca]] region (16th century) * [[Magna Carta]], four of the seventeen extant copies (13th century) * Oldest copy of the [[Rule of Saint Benedict]] (8th century) * Astronomical manuscript copy of the [[Book of Fixed Stars]] (12th century) * The [[Song of Roland]], single extant manuscript in [[Old French]] of the oldest surviving major work of [[French literature]] (12th century) * Rushworth or MacRegol Gospels, Irish illuminated manuscript from [[Birr, County Offaly|Birr]], Co Offaly (9th century) * The [[Vernon Manuscript]], the longest and most important surviving manuscript written in [[Middle English]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/research/projects/vernon/index.aspx|title=The Vernon Manuscript Project|publisher=University of Birmingham|access-date=11 May 2012|archive-date=23 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223074201/http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/research/projects/vernon/index.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.evellum.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64:the-vernon-manuscript&catid=36:bodleian-digital-texts-series|title=Digital facsimile edition, October 2009|publisher=EVellum|access-date=11 May 2012|archive-date=23 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223082346/http://www.evellum.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64:the-vernon-manuscript&catid=36:bodleian-digital-texts-series|url-status=dead}}</ref> (15th century) * [[Yongle Encyclopedia]], 19 volumes of the second edition of the encyclopedia commissioned by the [[Yongle Emperor]], containing the most important texts available at that time (16th century) ===Individual printed books=== * The first book printed in [[Arabic]] with [[moveable type]] (16th century) <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/weston/finding-resources/guides/middleeast |title=Weston Library | Middle East |publisher=Bodleian.ox.ac.uk |access-date=12 March 2017}}</ref> * [[Bay Psalm Book]], One of eleven known surviving first-edition copies of the first book printed in [[British North America]], and the only copy outside the United States (1640) * Rare copy of ''[[The Birds of America]]'' by [[John James Audubon]] (1827–1838) * Rare first edition of ''[[Don Quixote]]'', the first modern novel (1604) * A [[Gutenberg Bible]], one of only 21 surviving complete copies (1455) * Shakespeare's [[First Folio]], collection of plays by [[William Shakespeare]] (1623) * Earliest edition of the popular American song "[[Yankee Doodle]]" (after 1775) ===Other=== * [[Agincourt Carol]], manuscript of [[English folk song]] recounting the [[Battle of Agincourt]] (15th century) * The [[Gough Map]], [[late-medieval]] [[map]] of the island of [[Great Britain]] (14th century)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/weston/finding-resources/guides/maps |title=Weston Library | Maps |publisher=Bodleian.ox.ac.uk |date=12 February 2015 |access-date=12 March 2017}}</ref> * [[Selden Carol Book]], medieval manuscript of English [[carol (music)|carols]] (15th century) * Manuscripts of famous authors including [[Jane Austen]], [[Kenneth Grahame]] (including the original writing for ''[[Wind in the Willows]]''), [[Franz Kafka]], [[C. S. Lewis]], [[John le Carré]], [[Mary Shelley]] (including the famous novel [[Frankenstein]]), [[Percy Shelley]] and [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] * Archive of the German composer [[Felix Mendelssohn]] with many of his letters, drawings and music manuscripts, including [[The Hebrides (overture)|the Hebrides]] overture * Autograph scores of famous composers including [[Beethoven]] (Eccosais and Trio in D for military band), Chopin ([[Ballade No. 4 (Chopin)|Ballade 4]]), [[Mozart]] (Allegro in G Minor for Piano) and Schubert ([[Sonata in C major for piano four-hands, D 812 (Schubert)|Sonata in C major for piano four-hands, D 812]]) * [[Shikshapatri]], religious text written in [[Sanskrit]] by [[Lord Swaminarayan|Swaminarayan]] (19th century)
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