Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867: With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth CenturyMacray, William Dunn
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Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867: With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century
Macray, William Dunn
Bodleian Library
A Supplemental Catalogue of the printed books, comprehending all the
accessions which had been made during the years 1835-1847, was published
in this year, in one folio volume, under the editorship of the Rev.
Alfred Hackman, M.A., by whom the greater part of the earlier Catalogue
had been compiled, as mentioned at p. 268.
On March 27, Convocation voted an addition of £50 _per annum_ to the
stipends of the Sub-librarians.
_Recovery of Pococke MS. 32._ See p. 81.
_Malone's Correspondence._ See p. 232.
[348] The Clarendon had been previously sold at an auction on Nov. 29,
1845, by Messrs. Evans, with various other books which had belonged to
Gray.
A.D. 1852.
In the Report of the University Commission, which was issued in this
year, various suggestions were embodied which had been made by several
witnesses. Sir Edmund Head renewed his plan of allowing books to be
taken out of the Library by readers, and was supported by the opinions
of Professors Wall and Jowett; but the proposal was met with the strong
counter-testimony of Mr. H. E. Strickland[349], Prof. Vaughan, Dr. W. A.
Greenhill (at that time a constant reader in the Library), Prof. Donkin,
Mr. E. S. Foulkes, and others. And the Commissioners were not prepared
to report in favour of a plan which would at once lessen what was
described as being one of the great advantages of the place, namely, the
certainty of finding within its walls every book which it possessed. At
the same time, they were disposed to recommend a relaxation in some
instances of the strictness of the rule, and concurred in a suggestion
made by Dr. Macbride and Mr. Storey Maskelyne, that duplicates should be
allowed to circulate. Most, however, of the suggestions for extension of
facilities to readers, as well as of the reasons alleged for alteration
of system, have now been answered by the opening (through the liberality
of the Radcliffe Trustees) of the Radcliffe Library as a noble
reading-room for both day and evening. As the hours during which the
Library may be used extend now, in consequence of this addition, from
nine a.m. to ten p.m., it is at once apparent that the Bodleian presents
greater advantages to students than can anywhere else be enjoyed; to
which is to be added the readiness and quickness (specially testified
to, in 1852, by Dr. Greenhill) with which, under all ordinary
circumstances, readers are supplied with the books which they require.
The Commissioners in their Report called attention to a suggestion of
Sir Henry Bishop, then Professor of Music, for the establishment of a
classified musical library, which should comprehend, not merely the
music received by the Bodleian from Stationers' Hall, but all superior
foreign music as well, of every school and every age. Such collections
the Professor said were only to be found at Munich and Vienna.
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