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
On the back is the following note:--'This is an original drawing by
Hans Holbein, was actually executed, and in the possession of Queen
Anna Bulleyn, A.D. 1534. D. Logan.' It bears, however, the initials
H. and J., and was therefore executed, not for Anne Boleyn, but Jane
Seymour. 'The cup was carried into Spain by George Villiers, Duke of
Buckingham, when he accompanied Charles, Prince of Wales, on his
romantic expedition to Madrid[386].'
2. The original drawing, as is supposed, by Raffaele, for his picture of
Attila stopped on his approach to Rome by the apparition of SS. Peter
and Paul. Framed and glazed.
This and the preceding form part of the Douce collection.
3. Bust of Sir T. Bodley. See p. 26.
4. Bust of Charles I. See p. 61.
5. Small marble bust of Napoleon.
Bequeathed by Capt. Montagu in 1863. See p. 299.
6. Engraved facsimile of the Rosetta Stone, published by the Antiquarian
Society in 1803.
7. Egyptian scroll.
[Five other Egyptian fragments hang at the other end of the
Library.]
8. Map of England and Scotland, on parchment. Written in the fourteenth
century. See p. 212, _note_.
9. An armillary sphere, in bronze, supported by three lions.
Given by Capt. Josias Bodley. See p. 21.
10. Two small bronzes; one representing Narcissus contemplating his face
in the stream; the other, Cupids disporting themselves on the backs of
Tritons.
11. A plaster cast of young Bacchanals leading the goat.
12. A wood carving, coarsely executed, representing Hercules spinning,
and exposed by Omphale to the ridicule of two female visitors.
13. Bronze, in fine alto-relievo, of Curtius leaping into the gulf in
the Forum at Rome.
14. Carving, in soap-stone, of the Judgment of Solomon.
15. A geometrical, eleven-sided figure, inclosing an open and hollow
iron ball with sixty sides, and surmounting a small pillar representing
the five orders of architecture. Around the base of the column are eight
other geometrical figures, with vacant spaces for two which have been
lost.
[Probably all the preceding articles, 10-15, came from Rawlinson.]
16. Model, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, of the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre at Jerusalem.
Bequeathed by Dr. Mason in 1841. See p. 265.
17. Four specimens of papyrus-rolls from Herculaneum, burnt to a crust.
Presented to the Library by George IV. See p. 216.
18. Piece of wood from the south side of the curious timber Church at
Greensted in Essex, built A.D. 1013.
Presented by Mr. James Dix, of Bristol, Feb. 10, 1865.
19. Specimen of ornamental writing by Mr. Hormuzd Rassam, whose name is
so well known in England, first, from his having accompanied Mr. Layard
during his Assyrian researches, and next from his, now happily ended,
captivity in Abyssinia; consisting of various chapters from the Old and
New Testaments, in Chaldee, Arabic, and Turkish, beautifully written in
the form of two angels supporting a cross, within a border.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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