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The transformation of the Bodleian Libraries provides an example of how major libraries can meet twenty-first century challenges: in 2008 it was facing a failed system installation, a failed plan to cope with its storage needs and the threat of losing status as a repository suitable to house important manuscripts. Three years later it had a new state-of-the-art repository already holding 7 million items under full automated control, a new advanced library system, transformed reader spaces and the reconstruction of its major building well under way; This was achieved in record-breaking time wit

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The Hatton and e Musaeo manuscript collections are important donations given to the Bodleian Library during its formative years in the seventeenth century, contributing substantially to its status as a national and international archive. The Hatton collection, associated with the aristocratic family that traces its lineage to Sir Christopher Hatton, chancellor of England during the reign of Elizabeth I, is best known for its Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, including King Alfred's translation of Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care, the oldest extant manuscript of Benedict's Rule, as well as collections of Old English homilies of Wulfstan and Aelfric (with glosses by the "Tremulous Hand of Worcester"). Among its Middle English manuscripts are religious texts, including Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, commentaries by Richard Rolle on the psalms and ten commandments, chronicles such as the Brut and an assortment of manuscripts ranging from political prophecies and grammar treatises to compendia of medical recipes. The e Musaeo collection, so called because it was originally an eclectic group of manuscripts stored in the librarian's study, also has a variety of significant texts, ranging from the religious and devotional (a Wycliffite New Testament, Love's Mirror, and Heinrich Suso's treatise The Seven Points of True Love and Everlasting Wisdom); to the scientific and medicinal: Chaucer's Astrolabe, Friar Henry Daniel's Liber Uricrisiarum; and to the historical and the popular: the Brut and Mandeville's Travels. Patrick J. Horner, FSC (a De LaSalle Christian Brother) is Professor of English at Manhattan College.

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091 <41 OXFORD> --- 091 =75 --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland--OXFORD --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Grieks --- Manuscripts, Greek --- Catalogs. --- Bodleian Library --- 091 =75 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Grieks --- 091 <41 OXFORD> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland--OXFORD --- Greek manuscripts --- Greek language --- Greek philology --- Catalogs --- Oxford. --- University of Oxford. --- Bibliotheca Bodlejiana --- Sifriyat Bodli --- Bodlean Library --- Bodleyanah --- Sifriyat Bodleyanah --- בודליאנה --- ספריית בודלי --- ספריית בודלי באוכספורד --- ספריית בודליאנה --- ספריית בודליין --- ספרית הבודליאנה --- Bodleian Libraries --- The Bodleian Library --- Oxford. University. Bodleian Library --- University of Oxford. Bodleian Library

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In 1755 Richard Rawlinson bequeathed his vast collection of books and manuscripts to the Bodleian Library. The manuscripts alone numbered over 5,000, and the 167 of these which contain Middle English prose are indexed in this Handlist. These are divided fairly evenly between religious and secular texts: Rawlinson does not seem to have been interested in any particular genre; if a book was old and deemed to be of historical interest it entered his collection, either as an acquisition or a contemporary transcription. Scriptural and devotional writing is represented by copies of the New Testament, three different works by Rolle and three by Hilton, Love's Mirror, a Primer, Sacerdos Parochialis, The Chastising of God's Children, The Mirror of Our Lady, The Mirror to Lewd Men and Women, excerpts from the works of St Catherine of Siena and St Bridget of Sweden, Mirk's Festial, other sermons, Wycliffite treatises, the only English copy known of William Thorpe's Testimony, prayers, several copies of Pore Caitiff, and more. Secular and political writing includes versions of Mandeville's Travels, John Fortescue's On the Governance of England, translations of two works by Alain Chartier, and The English Conquest of Ireland. There is a rich selection of historical prose, with ten Bruts in whole or part, royal genealogies, accounts of royal weddings and of the coronation of Richard II, descriptions of court etiquette, the deposition of Richard II, the challenge for the English throne of Henry IV and his speech of acceptance. Scientific and utilitarian prose is illustrated by Chaucer's Astrolabe, grammatical treatises, alchemical writings by Lull and Ripley, medical treatises, especially urologies, and, in a lighter vein, extracts from the J.B. Treatise on hunting and country life, as well as separate works on hawking, angling and gardening. The abundance of recipes, medical, culinary and veterinary, singly and in collection, have been treated in this Handlist in particular detail. Sarah Ogilvie-Thomson is a former lecturer in language and medieval literature at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

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Old English literature --- anno 1200-1499 --- 091 =20 --- 091 <41 OXFORD> --- 091 <017.2 DIGBY, KENELM> --- Private libraries --- -English prose literature --- -Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- -English manuscripts (Middle) --- Manuscripts, Middle English --- Middle English manuscripts --- English literature --- Home libraries --- Libraries, Private --- Libraries --- Book collectors --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland--OXFORD --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Private verzamelingen--DIGBY, KENELM --- Catalogs --- Digby, Kenelm Sir --- -Library --- -Catalogs --- Bodleian Library --- -Oxford. --- University of Oxford. --- Bibliotheca Bodlejiana --- Sifriyat Bodli --- Bodlean Library --- Bodleyanah --- Sifriyat Bodleyanah --- בודליאנה --- ספריית בודלי --- ספריית בודלי באוכספורד --- ספריית בודליאנה --- ספריית בודליין --- ספרית הבודליאנה --- Bodleian Libraries --- English prose literature --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- Manuscripts --- Digby, Kenelm, --- Library --- -Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- 091 <017.2 DIGBY, KENELM> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Private verzamelingen--DIGBY, KENELM --- 091 <41 OXFORD> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland--OXFORD --- 091 =20 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- English manuscripts (Middle) --- Digby, Kenelmus --- Dygby, Kenelmus --- Oxford. --- Digby, Kenelm --- The Bodleian Library --- Oxford. University. Bodleian Library --- University of Oxford. Bodleian Library