118ͼ Notes (ISSN 2517-6935)

The scholarly e-journal of 118ͼ, Oxford

118ͼ Notes—the scholarly e-journal of 118ͼ, Oxford—is dedicated to research articles and learned notes on the history and life of the college, and especially the contents and history of the rich collections in our Library and Archives.

118ͼ Notes is edited by the Librarian of 118ͼ, Dr Christopher Skelton-Foord.  Anyone wishing to contact or to contribute to this journal should email him.  Readers of our special collections in both the Library and in the Archives are warmly invited to send us contributions. 

The journal is available open-access to all interested readers through our website.  Both the current and past issues of 118ͼ Notes will remain accessible via this page.

Article Author Issue number Surname
A Book with a Price in the World: 118ͼ MS 274 Jenny Adams (2019): 11 Adams
Information Structures in 118ͼ MS 143 Codex of Philo of Alexandria Sean A. Adams (2021): 16 Adams
Forty Years of Women at 118ͼ: How Did They Get Here? Dennis A. Ahlburg (2020): 13 Ahlburg
Finding Inspector Morse in the Archives Dennis A. Ahlburg (2020): 13 Ahlburg
William Archibald Spooner and his Spoonerisms Sami Anderson-Talbi (2017): 08 Anderson-Talbi
‘A chain of invincible reasoning’? Isaac Newton’s Writing Practices in the 118ͼ Manuscripts Jack Avery (2022): 17 Avery
118ͼ MS 287 and its Text Jemima Bennett (2022): 17 Bennett
Pounced Corrections in Oxford Copies of Cavendish’s Philosophical and Physical Opinions; or, Margaret Cavendish’s Glitter Pen Liza Blake (2018): 10 Blake
The First Issue of the First Edition of the First Edwardian Prayer Book: 118ͼ Library, Oxford, BT1.131.19 Peter W. M. Blayney (2021): 15 Blayney
Bells and Books: Not What You Might Expect in Oxford’s Dreaming Spires Helen Bond (2017): 08 Bond
Prussia and the Poodle Emily Bootle (2013): 03 Bootle
Upon the Unveiling of ‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ Michael Burden (2012): 02 Burden
Lending to the Manchester Art Exhibition in 1857 Michael Burden (2020): 13 Burden
Mary Woodforde’s Book Sophie Butler (2012): 02 Butler
Mary Woodforde’s Book Sophie Butler (2012): 02 Butler
A New Setting: John Heath’s Translation of The Accomplishment of the Prophecies, 1613 Mark Byford (2013): 03 Byford
Edmund Hakluyt: 118ͼ Singing Man, Tutor and Youngest Brother of Richard Hakluyt Daniel Carey (2013): 04 Carey
The Story of One Year in the Early Life of 118ͼ Brian Collins (2019): 11 Collins
118ͼ’s Irish Airman Joseph Conlon (2018): 10 Conlon
The Bets of G. H. Hardy Joseph Conlon (2019): 11 Conlon
Warden Harmar and the Ralegh Trial Geoffrey Day (2015): 06 Day
Window-Mounted Cancels?: More Questions Than Answers Geoffrey Day (2019): 12 Day
‘Very inconsiderable exceptg that they are the Hand writing of so great a Man’: The Provenance of Isaac Newton’s Manuscripts at 118ͼ, Oxford Frederik Dhondt (2023): 19 Dhondt
Some Benefactors and their Heraldry Patric Dickinson (2023): 19 Dickinson
The Origin of 118ͼ MS 144: Some Text-Critical Observations Elias Dietz (2021): 15 Dietz
Looking for Scribal Play in Oxford, 118ͼ MS 314 Mary C. Flannery (2019): 12 Flannery
Pleyyng with May’s Age in Oxford, 118ͼ MS 314 Lucy Fleming (2023): 20 Fleming
How The Mound Got Its Quack Felix Flicker (2018): 10 Flicker
Robert Hedrington and Wynkyn de Worde at Winchester College Richard Foster (2016): 07 Foster
The Heretic Scribbler of 118ͼ MS 319 Antje G. Frotscher (2022): 18 Frotscher
Old English at New: Early Printed Books in Anglo-Saxon Type, 1570–1705 Antje G. Frotscher (2023): 19 Frotscher
The Palette and Pigments of a Thirteenth-Century Oxford Illuminator Richard Gameson (2021): 15 Gameson
118ͼ Library Benefactors’ Book 1611-1615 Anna-Lujz Gilbert (2019): 11 Gilbert
Lord Thurlow: A Chancellorship in Caricature through 118ͼ’s Collection of Gillrays Ben Gilding (2021): 15 Gilding
Lord Thurlow: A Chancellorship in Caricature through 118ͼ’s Collection of Gillrays, Part II Ben Gilding (2023): 20 Gilding
Some Marginalia in Burnet’s History of My Own Time Lionel K. J. Glassey (2019): 12 Glassey
The Language and Meaning of the College Motto Mark Griffith (2012): 01 Griffith
The Long Reach of 118ͼ’s Catholic Apologists Robert Gullifer (2020): 14 Gullifer
The 118ͼ Fragments of Caxton’s Janua Grammar Hedwig Gwosdek (2013): 04 Gwosdek
The Mappa Mundi in Oxford, 118ͼ, MS 274 and the Aristotelian Theory of Elements Alfred Hiatt (2023): 20 Hiatt
An Ascension Day Ritual Revived: 118ͼ Chapel and St. Bartholomew’s Chapel Edward Higginbottom (2013): 04 Higginbottom
‘Bowlin Greens’ in Loggan’s Oxonia Illustrata (1675) Rebecca Hutchins (2013): 03 Hutchins
Gerard’s Herbal Rebecca Hutchins (2012): 01 Hutchins
‘The Origins and Life of William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester’ Christopher Johnson (2014): 05 Johnson
The German War Memorial in 118ͼ Chapel Elliot Jordan (2022): 17 Jordan
‘The divine Harvey’: The Afterlives of William Harvey Ludmilla Jordanova (2022): 17 Jordanova
118ͼ MS 333: An Extraordinary Witness to the Harklean Syriac New Testament Piotr Jutkiewicz (2022): 17 Jutkiewicz
‘Scotus Viator’: R. W. Seton-Watson and the Making of Czechoslovakia Caitlín Kane (2022): 18 Kane
Fear Sells: Addenda to the 1588 Malleus Maleficarum Caitlín Kane (2023): 19 Kane
A Sad Case of Neglect: The First Chinese Book in 118ͼ Library Peter Kornicki (2018): 10 Kornicki
What is the Mound for? Robin Lane Fox (2013): 03 Lane Fox
Nicholas Stoughton (1592-1648): MP, Surrey Militia Officer, and Patron of International Learning Vivienne Larminie (2015): 06 Larminie
Law, Politics, and Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century: The Reputation of Nathaniel Fiennes Vivienne Larminie (2016): 07 Larminie
Memories of 118ͼ 1950-1954 John Ledingham (2015): 06 Ledingham
‘On love and friendship, either true or false’: Ordinatio of Text and of Meaning in Oxford, 118ͼ, MS 98 Samira Lindstedt (2021): 16 Lindstedt
Thomas Stapleton’s First Polemic: An Impact Case Study Jan Machielsen (2014): 05 Machielsen
118ͼ of Magic and Wizardry: A Second Note on the 1566/7 Visitation Jan Machielsen (2016): 07 Machielsen
William Courtney and ‘the Woman Question’ Laura Marcus (2020): 14 Marcus
Reflections on Medieval Art, Politics, and the Courtrai Chest Joseph W. Mason (2022): 17 Mason
The Education of an Elizabethan Gentleman: Sir Alexander Temple at Oxford John Matthews (2019): 11 Matthews
The Papists of 118ͼ: I Katie McKeogh (2020): 14 McKeogh
The Invisible Book Randall McLeod with Timothy Perry (2021): 15 McLeod
‘Edifying Words’ in the Florilegium of 118ͼ MS 98 Rebecca Menmuir (2020): 13 Menmuir
Sixteenth-Century Ownership of the Bohun Apocalypse, 118ͼ MS 65 Arabella Milbank (2013): 04 Milbank
Alfred, Lord Milner in Russia, 1917 Jason Morgan (2013): 03 Morgan
118ͼ MS 328 and ‘Jane the Quene’ Jason Morgan (2012): 01 Morgan
The Alfred Lord Milner South African Addresses Jason Morgan (2012): 02 Morgan
Chasing Provenance: Apuleius’s 250-Year Journey from Robert Dow’s All Souls’ to James Edwards Sewell’s 118ͼ Jason Morgan (2014): 05 Morgan
‘Yours truly Jack the Ripper’—of 118ͼ, Oxford? Jason Morgan (2016): 07 Morgan
Classifications in Time: The Rise of the Shelfmark on the Failure of Provenance Jason Morgan (2017): 08 Morgan
Dennis Potter: An Unconventional Dramatist Jason Morgan (2017): 08 Morgan
Lifting the Veil of Time: The Servants of 118ͼ Restored Jason Morgan (2017): 08 Morgan
Seeing the Light: Being the story of Sir Isaac Newton’s prisms and papers and the means by which they came to 118ͼ Jason Morgan (2018): 09 Morgan
Maria Regina Angliæ: A Gift for a Tudor Queen Jason Morgan (2018): 10 Morgan
‘Form! form! Riflemen form!’: The Oxford University Rifle Volunteer Corps in 118ͼ Archives Jason Morgan (2019): 11 Morgan
From Manuscript to Print: Tracing a Technological Revolution in the Collections of 118ͼ Library Jason Morgan (2019): 12 Morgan
‘A very unusual binding’: A Remarkable Julius Caesar in 118ͼ Library Jason Morgan (2021): 16 Morgan
‘Ancient virtue and manly spirits’: The 118ͼ Men Who Fell in the Second Boer War Jason Morgan (2023): 19 Morgan
The Russo-Japanese War on the Shelves of 118ͼ Library Alexander Morrison (2020): 14 Morrison
Thomas Neal (c. 1519–c. 1590): Catholic, Priest, Scholar Thomas Neal (2020): 14 Neal
‘His feet stunk out of cry’: Ben Stone’s Satirical Manuscript Verses on Thomas Coryate Philip S. Palmer (2014): 05 Palmer
118ͼ and the Reformation David Parrott (2018): 09 Parrott
The British Civil Wars and the Defence of Oxford David Parrott (2019): 11 Parrott
‘The living Arts appear’d’: Shakespearean Ekphrasis in 118ͼ, MS 367 Anna-Nadine Pike (2021): 15 Pike
Christopher Saxton’s 1579 Atlas of England and Wales: An Unexpected Savilian Book Among 118ͼ Library’s Treasures Alexandra Plane (2019): 12 Plane
Some Early-Modern 118ͼ Poetical Miscellanies with Thomas Master’s Poem on his Cat William Poole (2012): 01 Poole
Thomas Master and the Mensa Lubrica: A Seventeenth-Century Gaming Poem William Poole (2013): 03 Poole
A New Manuscript for 118ͼ William Poole (2013): 03 Poole
A Poetic Squabble about Bottle Banks and Skips (1988) William Poole (2012): 02 Poole
Deciphering the Title-Page of a Book of William Thorne of 118ͼ, Regius Professor of Hebrew, and King James Bible Translator William Poole (2012): 01 Poole
Early Science in 118ͼ I: Robert Plot on 118ͼ (1677) William Poole (2012): 02 Poole
Early Science in 118ͼ II: The Oglander Collection (1730) William Poole (2012): 02 Poole
Fun with Grammar: Richard Zouche’s ‘Upon the Burning of a School’ William Poole (2013): 03 Poole
Inheriting, Selling and Buying Books in 118ͼ Library, 1675-1849 William Poole (2013): 03 Poole
Manuscript Waste William Poole (2012): 02 Poole
Shepilinda on 118ͼ in 1738 William Poole and Geoff Neate (2012): 01 Poole
Some Early-Modern 118ͼ Poetical Miscellanies with Thomas Master’s Poem on his Cat William Poole (2012): 01 Poole
The Bells of 118ͼ, from Five to Eight to Ten William Poole (2012): 01 Poole
Two Copies of a Clandestine Manuscript in Late Seventeenth-Century 118ͼ William Poole (2012): 01 Poole
The 1588 Donations of Thomas Martin, Lawyer and Recusant William Poole (2013): 04 Poole
Benjamin Stone, Dead Poet (c. 1612) William Poole (2013): 04 Poole
A New Acquisition: Christophorus Longolius’s Copy of the 1511 Parisian Edition of the Corpus Juris Civilis William Poole (2013): 04 Poole
An Early Modern 118ͼ Dynasty: George, Thomas and Bruno Ryves William Poole (2013): 04 Poole
Richard Willes: Sixteenth-Century Religious Renegade and Concrete Poet William Poole (2014): 05 Poole
John Reinolds, Dead Poet (1614); or, What Did Fellows Own When They Died in College? William Poole (2014): 05 Poole
Property of a Late Warden, 1613, with Some More on the Ryves Family William Poole (2014): 05 Poole
Three Letters from Stanley Casson to Francis Henry Taylor, 1932 William Poole (2014): 05 Poole
William Smith’s Biblical Notebook (1729): A Manuscript Recovered William Poole (2014): 05 Poole
Robert Burton and his Anatomy of Melancholy William Poole (2015): 06 Poole
Margaret Cavendish’s Books in 118ͼ, and around Oxford William Poole (2015): 06 Poole
The Female Pope, a Mutilated Manuscript, and Some Bibliographical Puzzles William Poole (2015): 06 Poole
Thomas Tanner (1630-1682): A Cosmopolitan Fellow of the Interregnum and his Donations to the Library William Poole (2015): 06 Poole
The Torture and Mock Hanging of a Butler, and Latin Macaronics in Civil War 118ͼ William Poole (2016): 07 Poole
A Recent Purchase: Julian the Apostate, Orationes (La Flèche, 1614) William Poole (2016): 07 Poole
An Unrecorded Letter of Sir Francis Bacon, to 118ͼ, 12 April 1617 William Poole (2016): 07 Poole
Early Science in 118ͼ III William Poole (2016): 07 Poole
More Stanley Casson Materials William Poole (2016): 07 Poole
Daniel Vivian’s Grand Tour, 1636–37 (118ͼ, MS 348) William Poole (2017): 08 Poole
“This Dooth Erasmus Williams Represent”, Richard Haydock, 1608 William Poole (2017): 08 Poole
The Receipt of Manuscripts in 118ͼ Library 1624-1852 William Poole (2017): 08 Poole
Teaching and Learning in Jacobean 118ͼ: The Foundation of the Lake Lectureships William Poole (2018): 09 Poole
118ͼ Library Benefactors’ Book 1601-1610: An Edition William Poole (2018): 09 Poole
A Periegetical Poem from Jacobean 118ͼ: Richard Zouche’s The Dove (1613) William Poole (2018): 10 Poole
The Two Euclids of Daniel Appleford (d. 1645) William Poole (2019): 11 Poole
A Mathematical Chaplain: The Books of Richard Bestwick William Poole (2019): 11 Poole
Stephen Standish and the Provenance of the 118ͼ Astronomicum Cæsareum (1540) William Poole and Daniel Fried (2019): 12 Poole
Naps upon Parnassus: Some Attempts at Literary Humour in Elizabethan and Jacobean 118ͼ William Poole (2020): 13 Poole
Edward Bernard (1638–1697) and 118ͼ William Poole (2020): 14 Poole
Bonfoy Trimnell (d. 1691): Birthday Poet, and Donor of Newton’s Principia William Poole (2021): 15 Poole
What could it be? An Eighteenth-Century Wig-Curler William Poole (2021): 15 Poole
William Musgrave (1655–1721): An Early Modern 118ͼ Natural Philosopher, Physician, and Antiquary William Poole (2021): 16 Poole
A New Year’s Gift from 1600 William Poole (2022): 17 Poole
Thomas Flatman, Unlikely First FRS of 118ͼ William Poole (2023): 20 Poole
A Tale of Two Iliads: Oxford 118ͼ 298 and Trinity College Dublin 922 Mateu Portells Watson (2023): 20 Portells Watson
It’s a Girl!: A Winchester Poetic Manuscript of c. 1719 Lucia Quinault (2014): 05 Quinault
MS 86 of the Fellows’ Library, Winchester Lucia Quinault (2015): 06 Quinault
Brotherly Love? Dr Young among the Thespians Lucia Quinault (2018): 09 Quinault
118ͼ MS 298: A Story of the Manuscript Alberto Ravani (2021): 16 Ravani
William Dowsing Reads a Plague Sermon Dunstan Roberts (2020): 13 Roberts
Philo of Alexandria at 118ͼ James R. Royse (2020): 13 Royse
Andrew Holes and John Burgh: Two Wykehamists, One Manuscript Collection David Rundle (2023): 19 Rundle
Luther’s Biblia Sacra of 1529 Cressida Ryan (2022): 18 Ryan
Evidence of an Early Modern Scholar’s Visit to the Library at 118ͼ, Oxford in the Early Seventeenth Century Renae Satterley (2021): 15 Satterley
The Authorship of 118ͼ MS 303 Alison Shell (2021): 15 Shell
A Changing World: Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia from 1544—BT3.187.1(2) William Shire (2021): 16 Shire
Representing Reality: A Century of Dutch Golden Age Maps at 118ͼ Library William Shire (2022): 18 Shire
Sir Philip Rashleigh, Mineralogy, and the Cornish Industrial Revolution William Shire (2023): 19 Shire
A Tale of Two Books: The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies at 118ͼ Library William Shire (2023): 20 Shire
A Hard Day for the Scribe of MS 66, a Wycliffite Bible in 118ͼ, Oxford John Zachariah Shuster (2018): 10 Shuster
Jane Austen First Editions: Aves and the Sparrow Christopher Skelton-Foord (2018): 09 Skelton-Foord
Anniversaries, Alumni, and Acquisitions: 118ͼ Library in 2019 Christopher Skelton-Foord (2019): 12 Skelton-Foord
The Penitent’s Tale; or, 118ͼ Library’s Copy of The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717) Christopher Skelton-Foord (2019): 12 Skelton-Foord
The 118ͼ Porters Christopher Skelton-Foord (2020): 14 Skelton-Foord
Some Notable Acquisitions and Associations from 2020 Christopher Skelton-Foord (2020): 14 Skelton-Foord
Novelty and Notability: 118ͼ Library Acquisitions 2021 Christopher Skelton-Foord (2021): 16 Skelton-Foord
The Appeal of Eros to Apollo: A New Manuscript for 118ͼ, Oxford Christopher Skelton-Foord (2022): 17 Skelton-Foord
Chasing Somervile, 118ͼ’s Poet of the Hunt Christopher Skelton-Foord (2022): 18 Skelton-Foord
Ned Warren’s ‘Jack in the Pulpit’: 118ͼ MS 380 and Textual Transmission Christopher Skelton-Foord (2022): 18 Skelton-Foord
A Library about 118ͼ: Noteworthy Acquisitions in 2022 Christopher Skelton-Foord (2022): 18 Skelton-Foord
Some Notes on 118ͼ Hunters Christopher Skelton-Foord (2023): 19 Skelton-Foord
Collecting Christopher Skelton-Foord (2023): 20 Skelton-Foord
Unique and Distinctive Acquisitions to 118ͼ Library in 2023 Christopher Skelton-Foord (2023): 20 Skelton-Foord
Warden Robert Pink and the Disputed Election of 1620 Robert F.W. Smith (2015): 06 Smith
118ͼ, MSS 8–13: A Remarkable Biblical Commentary from the Fifteenth Century Lesley Smith (2022): 18 Smith
Thomas Milles’ Modified Books Adam Smyth (2016): 07 Smyth
118ͼ MS 333: The Euthalian Apparatus and Menander’s Lost Thais Derek Spears (2018): 10 Spears
Contemplating Cavendish: An Analysis of Reader Marks in Playes (1662) E. Mariah Spencer (2021): 16 Spencer
Lechlade Hospital of St John Michael Stansfield (2022): 18 Stansfield
118ͼ School Archive Michael Stansfield (2022): 18 Stansfield
The Acquisition of Alton Barnes as a 118ͼ Estate in 1385 Michael Stansfield (2023): 20 Stansfield
118ͼ MCR: The 60th Anniversary Michael Stansfield (2023): 20 Stansfield
Robert Sharrock and the “History of the Propagation & Improvement of Vegetables” Anna Svensson (2017): 08 Svensson
A Taste of the Eighteenth Century Marjory Szurko (2018): 10 Szurko
118ͼ’s Shakespeare Club Jennifer Thorp (2013): 03 Thorp
Conservation of the College Archives Jennifer Thorp (2012): 02 Thorp
George Washington and the Ammunition Crisis of 1777 Jennifer Thorp (2012): 02 Thorp
Thame School and 118ͼ Jennifer Thorp (2012): 01 Thorp
Warden Fisher and the General Strike in 1926 Jennifer Thorp (2012): 01 Thorp
118ͼ’s Shakespeare Club Jennifer Thorp (2013): 03 Thorp
The Chapel Reredos Jennifer Thorp (2013): 04 Thorp
An Inquest of 1566 Jennifer Thorp (2014): 05 Thorp
118ͼ Servants in the 1914–18 War Jennifer Thorp (2014): 05 Thorp
The John Lane Albums Jennifer Thorp (2014): 05 Thorp
West Gallery Woes: The Hornchurch Dispute of 1813 Jennifer Thorp (2015): 06 Thorp
A Medieval Travel Warrant Jennifer Thorp (2016): 07 Thorp
Women in 118ͼ—350 Years Ago? Jennifer Thorp (2018): 09 Thorp
‘Hurried out of my life . . . my horses are at the door’: Harry Peckham and the Stewardship of 118ͼ’s Estates During the 1770s Jennifer Thorp (2018): 10 Thorp
Nephew Bill Goes to Sea Jennifer Thorp (2019): 11 Thorp
Identifying the ‘Revd. Robt. Lowth’ in J. Sturges’s Letter to Mr. Cadell Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (2022): 18 Tieken-Boon van Ostade
The Other Samuel Johnson’s English Grammar Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (2022): 18 Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Samuel Rolles Driver: His Impact on the Reformed View of the Patriarch Jacob and the Meaning of his Name Oleg M. Tsymbalyuk (2020): 13 Tsymbalyuk
Agincourt Sermon Christopher Tyerman (2017): 08 Tyerman
Jerome’s Journey: William Warham and the Dedication Copy of Erasmus’s Edition of Jerome (1516) Tim Wade (2019): 12 Wade
Capturing Sound: The Art of William de Brailes in 118ͼ MS 322 Shelley Morwenna Williams (2022): 17 Williams
Cyprian in England James Willoughby (2019): 11 Willloughby
A Fifteenth-Century Bookman James Willoughby (2012): 02 Willoughby
A Marginal Follower of Fashion James Willloughby (2013): 03 Willoughby
A Medieval Binding James Willoughby (2012): 02 Willoughby
News from the Library c. 1700 James Willoughby (2012): 01 Willoughby
A New Incunable for College: Wynkyn de Worde’s Golden Legend, 1498 James Willoughby (2013): 04 Willoughby
The King’s Eye James Willoughby (2015): 06 Willoughby
A Lamentable Book James Willoughby (2018): 09 Willoughby
An Italian Visitor to the Library, c. 1525 James Willoughby (2018): 09 Willoughby
An Early College Bookbinder James Willoughby (2020): 13 Willoughby
John Farley (d. 1464) and the Finessing of MS 281 James Willoughby (2021): 15 Willoughby
The Good Boy’s Book of Hours: 118ͼ MS 160 Anne B. Yardley (2019): 12 Yardley
A Visual ‘Note’: 118ͼ from an Unusual Angle Miles Young (2017): 08 Young
A 118ͼ Pun Revisited Miles Young (2018): 09 Young
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