Announcing the Colin Franklin Prize 2021! The Centre for the Study of the Book (Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book) offers a prize to a University of Oxford under-grad/post-grad for a collection of books or other printed materials. To do: An essay (2500 words max) By: 19 March 2021 bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/prizes

If you were waiting for permission (and really, why would you be?) Allie Alvis (mostly on 🦋 now) has mustered Alberto Manguel, Thomas Frognall Dibdin and Joseph William Zaehnsdorf to convince you it's OK to arrange your books by colour. So that's Wednesday afternoon sorted

'Meet the Manuscripts: judging a book by its cover' This free online workshop will explore the secrets that bookbindings reveal about the uses and histories of medieval manuscripts. 26 February 12.30–1.15pm (GMT) Book your place at: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/meet-the…

Ever wondered how the #ink for #medieval #manuscripts was made? Tune into Sara Charles brilliant lecture ‘An introductory talk on iron gall ink’ part of #MaterialWitness CHASE DTP 🖋🪶📜 👀🎥 youtu.be/_EuVBSKpdzM

Today's the day! The Weston library is OPEN to university staff and students. Book a seat online: bodleian.ox.ac.uk/using/reading-…

If you're an Oxford student and you collect books you could win yourself £600 by... collecting books. That's it. And best of all you'll get to buy some books for us too. C'mon. Show us what's on your shelves!

William Peraldus's super popular treatise on the vices has scarcely any evidence of readers in @MertonCollege MS 233. Except for some v discrete marginal dots in the section on remedies for Wrath. 🤔 medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manusc… #MertonMSS

Introducing ‘Voices from the Bodleian’ - a new blog series on LinkedIn! Meet our staff members, and learn what makes them tick. First up is Nicole Gilroy, our head of Conservation BodleianConservation who has been at the library for over 20 years! linkedin.com/pulse/voices-f…

You know that feeling when you think you know your own collection and then you find out there's a prospectus for #Ulysses downstairs that you had no idea you had AND it's freely available online to everyone in the UK? That. Thanks #WorldBookDay

Good morning to everyone, but especially to this tiny terracotta monkey in our Greece gallery

The latest Bodleian Libraries Maps blog takes us to #Antarctica in the company of #ErnestShackleton's 1907-09 #Nimrod Expedition. #TessaRose tells the story of map and book printing during the long winter months: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/ Bodleian Rare Books Scott Polar Research Institute

The ambitious 1481 edition of Dante's La Comedia may have been the first fully illustrated edition of the poem. Join us on Tuesday 4 May for short talks - co-organised with @UCLLibraries - on Botticelli's illustrations, surviving copies and more. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/dante-14…

Our top candidate for 'books to eat first when the apocalypse finds you trapped in the Bodleian' is Dieet smakelijk - the world's only book made entirely from Sweet Potatoes 🍠🍠🍠 Thanks to Wouter Cornet for a great donation

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