A tour by Emma Huber and Henrike Lähnemann for Meeting Minds

More information: http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/taylorian and https://historyofthebook.mml.ox.ac.uk/

Watch the 2021 online version of the tour on youtube:

The library has

• 55 incunables
• 1,359 titles from the 16th century
• 3,447 from the 17th century,
• 10,442 from the 18th century and
• c. 41,800 from the 19th century.

Notable Dates and Names

• 1845 Taylor Institution founded
• 1874 Teaching Collection starts
• Max Friedrich Müller (1823-1900, Professor of Modern European Languages)
• Hermann Georg Fiedler (1862-1945, 1^st Taylor Professor of German)
• Giles Barber (5^th librarian 1970-1996)

There are a number of unexpected collections, curiosities and oddities such as

• A lock of Goethe’s hair which has a manuscript shelfmark due to the authentication letter (MS. 8° G 26)
• Memories of from a trip to Germany with King Edward VIII in 1913 from the Fiedler Collection
• Correspondence by the German author Wolfgang Hildesheimer with his Oxford based English translator

Reformation Pamphlets

More information on this: https://editions.mml.ox.ac.uk/topics/reformation.shtml

1. The beginnings of the indulgence debate

ARCH.8°.G.1518 (5) Sermon von Ablass und Gnade, Basel 1518

ARCH.8°.G.1518 (6) Sermon von Ablass und Gnade, Leipzig 1518

ARCH.8°.G.1519 (8) Collected volume of eight pamphlets, containing as
        8) On Aplas von Rom kan man wol selig werden

• The Papal debate and Illustrated German literature

ARCH.8°.G.1521(19) Passional Christi und Antichristi, Erfurt 1521

ARCH.8°.G.1524(26) Hans Sachs: First Reformation Dialogue, Augsburg 1524

ARCH.8°.G.1527 (7) Hans Sachs: Prophecy against Papacy, Nuremberg 1527

ARCH.8°.G.1527 (8) Hans Sachs: Prophecy against Papacy, Nuremberg 1527

Historic Poetry Collections

• VET.ITAL.I.A.119 Il Petrarca, Venice 1560
• ZAH.I.B.2 Joachim du Bellay, Recueil de poesie, Paris: Fédéric Morel 1561
• VET.ITAL.I.A.163(2) Tavola di tutte le rime de’ sonetti, e canzoni del Petrarca, Venice 1586
• FINCH.II.18 Rime di Paolo Rolli (1687-1765), Verona 1733 (digitized)
• 39.K.24.B / VET.GER.III.B.985 Minnelieder, Ludewig Tieck, Berlin 1803