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How Medieval Manuscript Makers Experimented with Graphic Design

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 8, 2017December 8, 2017

Designing English: Graphics on the Medieval Page at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries considers how early English manuscripts approached graphic design.

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Earliest Known Zero Symbol Identified in Ancient Indian Manuscript

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 20, 2017September 20, 2017

Carbon dating reveals the earliest known symbol for zero is in a 3rd or 4th century Indian manuscript at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries.

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An Online Catalogue for All 25,000 of William Henry Fox Talbot’s Photographs

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 17, 2017February 17, 2017

The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford launched the first complete, digital catalogue for 19th-century photography pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot.

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Divination, Geomancy, and the Supernatural in Islamic Art

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 24, 2016November 25, 2016

Over 100 rare objects from the 12th to 20th centuries are used to explore the role of the supernatural in Islamic art at the Ashmoleon Museum in Oxford.

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Playing at Women’s Liberation, World War I, and Colonialism in Vintage Board Games

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 15, 2016February 29, 2016

In the 1917 board game “Suffragetto,” two players compete as either police or suffragettes to defend their political bases.

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An Exhibition of Fractured and Mended Art

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 27, 2015July 30, 2015

The conservation of artifacts already in museum care is highlighted more often than the repairs creators make to their own objects.

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The Freaks and Fascinations of 18th-Century Entertainment

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 15, 2015July 15, 2015

Last week, the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford launched an online portal to over 115,000 open-license images from their collections.

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Oxford’s Bodleian Library Celebrates the Father of Modern Publishing and Italics

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 4, 2015February 5, 2015

This year marks five centuries since the death of Aldus Manutius, an Italian humanist who forever changed the direction of publishing, and got in one of its first copyright squabbles.

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A Historic Manuscript on Aztec Life Is “Virtually Repatriated”

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 27, 2015November 22, 2017

One of the major textual resources on pre-Columbian Mexico is now online in a digital platform launched this month.

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Albrecht Dürer, Apocalyptic Self-Publishing Pioneer

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 8, 2014September 11, 2014

A 1511 edition of Dürer’s Apocalypsis (The Apocalypse) is just one of the many literary and artistic achievements in Marks of Genius: Treasures of the Bodleian Library now at the Morgan Library & Museum.

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Vatican and Oxford Launch Ambitious Digital Archive of Ancient Texts

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 5, 2013December 5, 2013

The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford and the Vatican Library have some of the richest collections of ancient biblical texts, but most of them are inaccessible to the general public. Now, through a collaborative project, 1.5 million manuscript pages are being digitized for public access online.

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A Trove of Portraiture Once Hidden Away in Oxford’s Library Goes Online

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 24, 2013May 24, 2013

The Bodleian Library acts as something of the University of Oxford’s cerebral hub with over 11 million items, but what has been an inaccessible secret is its large holding of art. Now 300 of its paintings are now viewable on Your Paintings hosted by the BBC.

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