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A Snapshot from the [Bodleian] Library

A change of tack this week as we present yet another snapshot from our visit to the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford. (They showed us so much cool stuff, we can’t help ourselves.)

This is the personal travelling library of King Charles I (1600-1649). We can tell that for certain as a couple of his books, mostly classical literature and poetry, contain his own signature (shown above). The Bodleian Rare Books team haven’t even accessioned it yet, and recently acquired it from a private collection. It’s amazingly complete considering its age, although whatever original housing it had is now lost.