A king for the queene: Samuel Sheppard's the faerie king and his reception of Spenser's epic authority

This thesis is the study of the use and abuse of Edmund Spenser as an authority in native English epic literature of the early seventeenth century, within fifty years of his death. It focuses on attempts to emulate or adapt his seminal text, The Faerie Queene (1596), and offers a comparative analysis of two such approaches by the liminal authors, Ralph Knevet and Samuel Sheppard. The former, a tutor to the wealthy Norfolk Paston family, produced his A Supplement of the Ferie Queene in the pre-Civil War period (c.1630-1635), while the latter wrote The Faerie King at the very end of the social upheaval of the war (c.1648-54). The thesis privileges the study of the holograph manuscripts (Cambridge University Library, MS Ee.3.53 and Bodleian Library MS Rawl. Poet. 28 respectively) over the basic editions of these neglected texts. It argues for the need to re-evaluate the significance of such texts within the Spenserian canon and, through new readings of the texts' structures and contexts, the thesis questions the legitimacy of canon formation and continuation, as well as the influence editorial policies and decision making can have on subsequent readers and receptions of the text

Ant-lore in Anglo-Saxon England

Two Old English versions of a sunshine prognostication survive in the mid-eleventh century Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 391, p. 713, and in a twelfth-century addition to Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 115, 149v–150r. Among standard predictions promising joy, peace, blossom, abundance of milk and fruit, and a great baptism sent by God, one encounters an enigmatic prophecy which involves camels stealing gold from the ants. These gold-digging ants have a long pedigree, one which links Old English with much earlier literature and indicates the extent to which Anglo-Saxon culture had assimilated traditions of European learning. It remains difficult to say what is being prophesied, however, or to explain the presence of the passage among conventional predictions. Whether the prediction was merely a literary exercise or carried a symbolic implication, it must have originated in an ecclesiastical context. Its mixture of classical learning and vernacular tradition, Greek and Latin, folklore and Christian, implies an author with some knowledge of literary and scholarly traditions.

A ideia de livro e de leitor no Livro da Vertuosa Benfeytoria

Tese de doutoramento, Estudos de Literatura e de Cultura (Estudos Comparatistas), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, 2014

Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah

by Rabbi Saadiah. Ed. from ms. in the Bodleian Library by H. J. Mathews [[Elektronische Ressource]]

A synopsis of naturall philosophy according to the method of the ancients, but improved & augmented with the notions of later philosophers : manuscript, 1677-1679

Possibly autograph, dated at end of volume: Finitu[m] mart: 14, 1678/9. Imperfect copy with title page missing; supplied from a MS copy, dated 29 March 1680, now in the Bodleian Library.

The Gests of King Alexander of Macedon; two middle-English alliterative fragments, Alexander A and Alexander B,

"Previous editions": p. 14-15.

Cursor mundi (The cursur o the world). A Northumbrian poem of the XIVth century in four versions.

"The four versions of the Cursor are from 1. Cotton ms. Vesp. A3 in the ... British Museum; 2. Fairfax ms. 14 in the Bodleian Library; 3. Ms. Theol. 107 in the Göttingen University Library; 4, Ms. R. 3. 8 in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge; supplemented by mss. Laud 416, Cotton Galba E9, and mss. in the College of Arms, the Edinburgh College of Physicians, and the Bedford Library."

Del signor Tomaso Pecci, Madrigali a cinque voci.

Includes 2 madrigals by Mariano Tantucci.

The codex Turnebi of Plautus,

Marginalia ascribed to Francois Duaren.

Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum bibliothecae Bodleianae.

Vol. 4, 2d impression with corrections.

The improvement of the moral qualities ; an ethical treatise of the eleventh century by Solomon ibn Gabirol, printed from an unique Arabic manuscript, together with a translation, and an essay on the place of Gabirol in the history of the development of Jewish ethics,

From a manuscript in the Bodleian library, Oxford.

Catalogus dissertationum academicarum quibus nuper aucta est bibliotheca Bodleiana.

Mode of access: Internet.

Florilegium morale Oxoniense, Ms. Bodl. 633.

Includes bibliography.