3 Quotes About Bodleian

Bodleian is a family of libraries at the University of Oxford in England, United Kingdom. The word “bodleian” is taken from the town of Bodleian, near Oxford, where it was founded. Scholars from the University of Oxford brought books from the monasteries in England to Oxford and added them to a library they called “The Great Hall”. In 1602 the books were moved to a purpose-built library building and were given the name “bodleian” after its place of origin Read more

The name derives from Old English bodelien, meaning “collection of books” (from Old English bodel, “book”). Today, Bodleian also refers to the main library building.

I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover...
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I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books. Laurie R. King
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The Bodleian above anything else made Oxford what it was . There was something incommunicably grand about it, something difficult to understand unless you had spent your evenings there or walked past it on the way to celebrate the boat race, a magic that came from ignoring it a thousand times a day and then noticing its overwhelming beauty when you came out of a tiny alley and it caught you unexpectedly. A library--it didn't sound like much, but it was what made Oxford itself. The greatest library in the world. Charles Finch