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Bodleian

[ bod-lee-uhn, bod-lee- ]

noun

  1. the library of Oxford University, reestablished by Sir Thomas Bodley, 1545–1613, English diplomat and scholar.


adjective

  1. of, relating to, or belonging to this library.

Bodleian

/ ˈbɒdlɪ-; bɒdˈliːən /

noun

  1. the principal library of Oxford University: a copyright deposit library
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Bodleian1

After Sir Thomas Bodley; -an
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Bodleian1

C17: named after Sir Thomas Bodley (1545–1613), English scholar who founded it in 1602
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Dr Veronese found the sonnet featured in a miscellany - a type of manuscript which contains a selection of texts from different authors on various subjects - stored at the Bodleian Library.

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The University of Oxford's Bodleian Library holds several of the scrolls.

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The Bodleian's scroll is likely to be on the same subject - but the Vesuvius team is calling for more human and computing ingenuity to see if this is the case.

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The Trustees of the Wilson Archive had found anonymous donors, who would fund the Bodleian Library in Oxford buying the papers.

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The poem had been kept in a shoe box before the Chandler family donated it, along with other papers, to the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford in the 1980s.

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