Bloxam, J. R., D.D., _Regist. of Magd. Coll._, cited, 188, 210. Blunt, J. H., M.A., 132 _n._ Bobart, J., 115. Boccaccio, Giovanni, 8, 296, 330. Bodleian Library, see 'Stationers' Company;' central room built to receive Duke Humphrey's books, 7; destruction of his library, 11-12; re-foundation by Bodley, 14; roof, 14-15; register of benefactors, 16; opened, 24; styled the Bodleian by letters patent, 25; eastern wing built, 29; great window, _ib._; endowments, 32; western wing built, 60; statute 1813, 218; new statutes 1856, 284; first catalogue 1605, 207; second 1620, 46, 91; appendix 1635, 60; prices of these catalogues, 60; third 1674, 97, 156-7; Hearne's Appendix, 123; fourth 1738, 156; fifth 1843, 268; new catalogue now in progress, 291; Uri's catalogue of Oriental MSS., 199; catalogues of pictures, 189; of early printed books 1795, 203; number of books 1620, 46-7; of MSS. 1690, 110; of printed books and MSS. 1714, 137; 1849, 274; 1867, 305; remonstrance from foreign readers against an order of the Curators, 68; loan to Charles I, 37, 69; supposed attempt to burn the library, 70; attendance of readers in 1648-9, 75; in 1730-40, 152; duplicates exchanged with Queen's College, 115; sales of duplicates, 160, 201, 297, 298; western end re-floored, 191; annual payment from graduates, 195; books not allowed to be borrowed, 50, 82 _n._; borrowing allowed by Lord Pembroke and Sir T. Roe, 51; by Sir K. Digby, 59; loan of books refused to Bp. Williams, 50; to Charles I, 72; to Cromwell, 76; to the translators of the Bible, 82 _n._; to Archbp. Laud, _ib._; granted by special grace, from some collections, to Selden, 79; MSS. lent to Marshall, 100; to the French government by Convocation, 295; removal of books forbidden 1686, 109; books returned-- to Univ. Libr., Cambr., 154; to Emman. Coll., Cambr., 159; to Magd. and Univ. Coll., Oxf., 215; to Durham, 216; to two parishes, 234; books stolen, 74, 80 _n._, 81, 103 _n._; denunciation of a thief by the Curators, 80 _n._; books restored, 81, 82, 103 _n._; chains for books, 86; pamphlets, 66, 194, 202, 290; dispute between the Hebdomadal Board and the Curators, 198; poem on the Library, 196; returns to House of Commons, 227, 273, 274; Greek text affixed to the door, 209; coldness in winter formerly, 98; warming apparatus, 234-5; the Radcliffe building assigned as a reading-room, 293, 295; visited by James I, 26, 41, by Charles I, 55, 70, by Charles II, 92, by James II, 109, by George III, 197, by her present Majesty, 319; American visitor's account cited, 134 _n._;