Detail of the Bodleian Plate; a thin copper plate that was etched, inked and then used for printing. The darker edges of the engraving are from leftover ink.

The Old Bodleian is also a major visitor attraction, drawing over 300,000 visitors a year. More information about the Bodleian Libraries and their activities can be found at www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk.

His professional life was almost equally divided between two libraries, the British Museum Library, where he was an Assistant Keeper from 1958 to 1974, and the Bodleian Library, Oxford, of which ...

A freelance food journalist has won the third Caine Prize For African Writing, presented at a ceremony in Oxford on Monday. Kenyan Binyavanga Wainaina won for Discovering Home, a short story first ...

It is believed the tapestry was last on show, briefly, at the start of World War One, when it was moved to the Victoria and Albert Museum for safekeeping.

The project was paid for by businessman and actor George Blumenthal. The manuscript, widely regarded as one of the most important in Bodleian's Hebrew collection, has been stored there since 1692.

The inscription reads ‘Most in mind and in mine heart, loathest from you far to depart’. British Museum Designing English is curated by Daniel Wakelin, Jeremy Griffiths Professor of Medieval English ...

The Bodleian Libraries have been donated a rare autograph from composer Johann Sebastian Bach. The manuscript of Bach's cantata for Ascension Day: 'Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein' (BWV 128) is one ...

The winner of a competition to design a chair for the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries has been announced. Image caption, The winning design will be produced for the refurbished Weston ...

RARE and antique theology books valued at about £20,000 have been stolen from one of Britain's most famous libraries. Police are puzzled by the theft from the Bodleian Library at Oxford ...