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early printed books

Bodleian Library Rare Books


The Bodleian Incunable catalogue: printed books before 1500 in Bodleian Collections

Blockbooks digitisation

Provenance index of rare books collections in the Bodleian Library

Tips on searching OLIS for early printed material (pre-1850)

Owen Massey-McKnight's bookmarks for describing and identifying early printed books

The Atlas of Early Printing : an interactive map of the printing industry 1450-1500 - may take a while to load

CEMS : the Centre for Early Modern Studies at Oxford


conservation

Homepage of Bodleian Library Conservation and Preservation Department


Special Reports: Conservation projects


hand-press printing
Printing workshops for students in higher education are offered in the Bodleian Library's Bibliography Room, in the New Bodleian Library.
See pictures of a printing workshop at the Bodleian Library

To schedule a workshop, contact the Centre for the Study of the Book or:
Paul W. Nash
Saturday Duty Officer
Special Collections
Bodleian Library
paul.nash@ouls.ox.ac.uk

western manuscripts

Bodleian Library Classical & Medieval Western Manuscripts


Illuminations from medieval & renaissance manuscripts in the Bodleian Library

Project:Cataloguing of Latin manuscripts from medieval Germany


oriental manuscripts

Collections guide to Oriental Manuscripts


Digitized images from the Oriental Collections

Chinese map from Ming dynasty, early 17th century

Online guide to the Bodleian's collection of Mughal Indian paintings


ephemera and image collections

Special Collections image library


The John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera

Curators' Choice: the John Johnson digitization project blog
Bodleian Broadside Ballads Collections

Russian caricatures of Napoleon from the Curzon Collection

 

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