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Bodleian Library Friends' Newsletter Winter 2018/19 – Summer 2019 Bodleian Library Friends’ Newsletter Sheldon Tapestry Maps The Winchester Bible Oxfam Archive Exclusive Interview: Sir Roy Strong 1 Richard Ovenden OBE, Bodley’s Librarian. Photo by John Cairns Welcome 2 From Richard Ovenden OBE, Bodley’s Librarian From Richard Ovenden OBE, Bodley’s Librarian 3 Chairman’s Welcome | Professor Richard McCabe Dear Friends 4 Secretary’s Update | As we embark on a new academic year at the Bodleian, we are delighted Virginia Lladó-Buisán to present our new Bodleian Library Friends’ Newsletter. It has been a momentous year for the Library. In November last year 5 Weaving our past to look at the we announced plans for a new graduate College, centering around the future: The Sheldon Tapestry Radcliffe Science Library, allowing it to be renovated to ensure we can Maps in the Bodleian Libraries | support twenty-first century science. In June, the University announced Virginia Lladó-Buisán a £150 million gift from philanthropist Stephen Schwarzman to enable the university to fulfil its long-held plans to build a new Humanities 6 Conservation of The Winchester Centre, which will also have a Bodleian Library at its heart, bringing Bible | Andrew Honey together six existing humanities collections. We continued to build our collections, adding over 300,000 printed books and journals, and we 8 Seven Decades of Relief: The made major acquisitions of digital archives to ensure that the Bodleian Oxfam Archive | Chrissie Webb can support cutting-edge research in all disciplines. Our project to digitize medieval manuscripts from German speaking lands, a collaboration Interview: Sir Roy Strong with the historic Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuttel, also got off 10 to a good start, thanks to the generosity of the Polonsky Foundation. 12 In Pursuit of a Prince: Archival The Bodleian’s exhibitions continue to attract thousands of visitors. Our Research into the Life of Albert superb exhibition Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth moved to New York’s Morgan Library in early 2019. The Director of the Morgan described it 13 A Night with the Garsington as their “most successful exhibition ever”. This autumn we look forward to Opera displaying the exhibition at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris. The Contents of the Book Go Up Tolkien was always going to be a hard act to follow, but the superb 14 Talking Maps exhibition has received a wonderful reception from to Heaven: Bodleian Fragments visitors. The exhibition showcases the best of the Bodleian’s unparalleled from the Cairo Genizah collection of more than 1.5 million ancient, pre-modern and contemporary maps from a range of cultures. Highlights include the 15 Annual Lecture 2019: Portraits of Gough Map of Great Britain, the Selden Map of China, and fictional the Virgin Queen Revisited maps by CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien. 16 Recent Acquisitions Last year, over 847,000 members of the public visited our exhibitions, attended lectures or took part in family and educational events 17 Friends of the Bodleian Annual organised by our wonderful Education Officer Rosie Sharkey, whose Report work is funded by the Helen Hamlyn Trust. Finally, this year’s Bodley Medal lecture hosted by the Oxford Literary Festival was delivered Support the Bodleian by Nobel Prize winner Sir Kazuo Ishiguro. We are thrilled that he has 18 joined our illustrious cohort of Bodley medallists. We continue to be touched by the generosity of the Friends, providing us with much needed income to support the Bodleian’s work, evidence Cover Image: Sheldon Tapestry Map of Gloucestershire of which you will read about in abundance in this Newsletter. Thank you for your ongoing support of the Bodleian and all that it enables. 2 Welcome Professor Richard McCabe, FBA, Chairman of the Advisory Council “We are grateful to all our of the Friends of the Bodleian members for their continued support and look forward to Chairman’s Welcome sharing their company at many Professor Richard McCabe future events.” ince our last Newsletter, the Friends of the Bodleian have Painting was also the subject of the Oxford Sorolla Day Scontinued to enjoy an exciting programme of events which attracted experts from across Europe to discuss designed to explore and celebrate the Library’s holdings the work of Spain’s finest Impressionist and ‘Master of in all their rich diversity. It began in May with a subject Light’. The event marks the first collaboration between dear to Bodley’s heart when Judith Olszowy-Schlanger the Bodleian Libraries and the National Gallery and was introduced the fragments we hold from the Cairo Genizah, further facilitated by St Cross College and the Spanish precious Hebrew manuscripts dating from the tenth to Sub-faculty in a remarkable instance of cross-disciplinary the thirteenth centuries and recovered in the nineteenth and institutional co-operation. from the synagogue of Ben Ezra in Fustat where they had been preserved, despite their obsolescence, because of the But, then, co-operation is the name of the game. In his perceived sanctity of the word – a practice with unforeseen Autobiography Bodley admitted that he could never have benefits for modern conservators. realised his plans for the Library ‘without very great store of honourable friends to further the designe’. The same The following month, by courtesy of Bodley’s Librarian, remains true today. The aim of the Friends is to further the Friends were invited to the opening of the Talking Bodley’s design in perpetuity through the creation of a Maps exhibition at which were displayed some of the most community of people who value the institution as much as precious items from our holdings from Al-Idrisi’s twelfth- his contemporaries valued its founder. We are grateful to all century world map, to cartographically inspired works by our members for their continued support and look forward Grayson Perry. For those interested in pursuing the subject to sharing their company at many future events. further, Nick Millea, Bodleian Map Librarian, will deliver a talk on the exhibition on 23 September. The highlight of Trinity Term was undoubtedly the Annual Lecture delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre on 27 June by the renowned art historian, Sir Roy Strong. Provocatively entitled ‘Portraits of the Virgin Queen Revisited, or why Professor Richard McCabe, FBA the Bodleian portrait is not her’, the lecture explored the nature and intent of Elizabethan portraiture, emphasising Chairman of the Advisory Council of the the complex relationship between the politics of patronage Friends of the Bodleian and the carefully controlled images it produced. While it is sad to learn that the Bodleian portrait ‘is not her’, it is hoped that some Friend may yet discover who it is and why she hangs here. All suggestions will be gratefully received. 3 Welcome Virginia Lladó-Buisan, Friends of the Bodleian Secretary and Head of Conservation and Collection Care. Photo by John Cairns and Head of Conservation Collection Care. of the Bodleian Secretary Lladó-Buisan, Friends Virginia Secretary’s Update Virginia Lladó-Buisán s the Secretary of the Friends of the Bodleian, one Another exciting event will be Emeritus Professor of Aof my key roles is to bring new ideas for our Friend’s Physics (Oxford University) Frank Close’s lecture on 21 events programme. So I have been working steadily, January. Professor Close used the Bodleian’s collections to alongside my Bodleian colleagues and the FOB Advisory write his latest book, Trinity, where he tells the story of the Council, to put together yet another exciting lunchtime atomic bomb’s metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls (Prof lectures programme for the academic year 2019-2020, which Close’s one time mentor in Oxford); his intellectual son, we hope is as successful and well received as last year’s. the atomic spy Klaus Fuchs; and the ghosts of the security services in Britain, the USA and USSR. Again, this lecture Today, I am delighted to share part of it with you: our will be supported by the original letters and photographic programme started “in style” with the Bodleian’s Map materials used to write this book. Librarian Nick Millea’s lunchtime lecture on 23 September focussing on the making of our current exhibition, Talking And of course, we have confirmation from other wonderful Maps. Nick not only discussed his work behind the scenes speakers for the rest of the year, which you will hear about of this wonderful display, but also showed in situ a number very soon! of collection items to illustrate his talk. Virginia Lladó-Buisán On 6 November, Graham Philip Jefcoate will give us an Friends of the Bodleian Secretary and insight in the life and work of John Henry Bohte (1784- Head of Conservation and Collection Care 1824). Jefcoate’s forthcoming biography of Bohte, An Ocean of Literature, is a study of Anglo-German exchange and the book trade in the early nineteenth century. In writing it, he has used a range of materials from the Bodleian and other Oxford collections, some of which will be presented during his lecture. 4 DiscoverDiscover Weaving our past to look at the future: The Sheldon Tapestry Maps in the Bodleian Libraries Virginia Lladó-Buisán Following the successful display of the Worcestershire these somewhat mysterious tapestries: Dr. Hilary L. Turner Tapestry Map in the Weston Library, it was time to give (Independent Scholar), Dr. Nobuko Shibayama (The this weaving masterpiece a rest (particularly from light Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), Dr. Lore Troalen exposure), but not without sharing yet another wonderful (National Museums of Scotland), and Bettina Sacher (UCL piece in this series, the Oxfordshire Tapestry Map. Institute for Sustainable Heritage) have produced extremely interesting new content, particularly on the identification Commissioned by Ralph Sheldon for his home at Weston, of the dyes used to make the silk and wool yarn used for the Warwickshire, the tapestries form a unique representation tapestries.
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