Tag: 17th century

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Protected: Tyndale at Hertford

Post author By Alice
Post date 4 July 2025

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Tags 16th century, 17th century, Donation, Old members

Hertford’s buildings : from medieval hall to modern college

Post author By Alice
Post date 2 April 2025

Hertford College’s Michaelmas Term 2024 archives and rare books display

Tags 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, Chapel, Hart Hall, Library, Magdalen Hall

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Astronomy and Alchemy in Hertford’s Manuscript Collection

Post author By Alice
Post date 27 May 2024

While the rare books are stored off site during Hertford’s major library re-development, rare books expert Sophie Floate takes a further look into our manuscript collection, most of which are currently housed at the Bodleian Library. Several of the items there are on broadly astrological or alchemical themes, some of which are quite strange. Ranging […]

Tags 15th century, 17th century, 18th century, Donation, Library, Magdalen Hall, Manuscripts

Rare books

Library Treasure

Post author By Alice
Post date 23 January 2024

Hertford College Library’s Michaelmas Term 2023 rare books display

Tags 15th century, 17th century, 18th century, Library, Magdalen Hall, Manuscripts

Rare books

The Secretum Secretorum of Louis the Great

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Post date 14 December 2023

Hertford’s rare books cataloguer, Sophie Floate, writes about one of the library’s oldest items: Hertford MS 2. This beautifully illuminated 14th century manuscript was commissioned by King Louis the Great of Hungary. Hertford College Library has a small number of medieval manuscripts, currently housed at the Bodleian. Hertford College MS 2 is a copy of […]