
"Can you tell me something of its provenance…?"
This is the question most frequently asked by researchers consulting our early printed collections, and there are some features of the history of the College's library which can help to explain the institutional, and often personal, history of most of the collection.[...]
Posted: 2021-12-14 (last modified 2023-03-14 03:18:17 PM)

"These Troublesome Times": ALL SOULS COLLEGE AND THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
The first complete surviving All Souls College Minute Book, Acta in Capitulis, MS. 400a dates from 18th August 1601 to the final entry, dated 29th July 1707, when it was agreed that the Wood-House should be repaired. The manuscript comprises 260 folios, of which folios 1 – 25[...]
Posted: 2021-02-03 (last modified 2023-03-14 03:18:17 PM)

World War I and All Souls College
MEMENTOTE INTER HOS
PARIETES HUIUSCE COLLEGII
ALUMNORUM ET FAMULORUM
QUI PRO PATRIA MILITANTES
MORTEM OPPETIUERUNT
MCMXIV – XVIII
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Posted: 2015-11-11 (last modified 2023-03-14 03:18:17 PM)

Beating the Bounds
The beating of the bounds is a tradition which dates back to Anglo-Saxon times, and was the means by which parish boundaries were marked, and remembered. On Ascension Day the Vicar and parishioners of St Mary the Virgin, the University Church, walk the parish boundary, “marki[...]
Posted: 2015-05-14 (last modified 2023-03-14 03:18:17 PM)

The printed achievement of Aldus Manutius
This symposium was convened by Ian Maclean (All Souls College, Oxford) and Oren Margolis (Somerville College, Oxford) on 7th February 2015, and comprised 5 presentations summarized here:
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Posted: 2015-02-27 (last modified 2023-03-14 03:18:17 PM)

The Library Orders
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Posted: 2014-11-11 (last modified 2023-03-14 03:18:17 PM)