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Our special collections contain several main items donated by college members, families of alumni, and college tutors and staff. Here we look at two examples of donors and their gifts. Our library rebuild plans<\/a> include a new bespoke rare books and archives store and consultation space. These will allow us to preserve the collections and share them with many future generations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A rare gift from the Obsonator<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hundreds of books were donated to the libraries of Magdalen Hall and Hart Hall in the 17th<\/sup> and 18th<\/sup> centuries. Our best sources of information for these are the Benefactors\u2019 Books from Magdalen Hall. This edition of Lombard\u2019s Sentences is one of the earliest printed items still in the collection. This copy was given to Magdalen Hall by Roger Fry in 1657. The inscription in the book (and in the Benefactors\u2019 book) describes him as \u201cobsonator\u201d, i.e. manciple or caterer for the Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Provenance note on inner leaf of book<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Entry
Entry in fair copy of Benefactors\u2019 Book<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\"Early
Text with early modern annotations in margins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cover of book showing chain marks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u201cSentences\u201d by Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris (approximately 1100-1160), is a theological and philosophical work. It consists of theological questions posed by Lombard and became the fundamental textbook for the study of Theology and as such was a  required text in many universities in Europe well into the 16th century. This is an edition printed in Venice in 1489. There are just over 100 surviving copies of this particular edition, mainly in university libraries.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Cale\u2019s legacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hertford College\u2019s collections received a large bequest from Hart Hall alumnus John Cale in 1777. His will records the donation of books, money to pay for the transfer and cataloguing of the books, and shares in the East India Company to fund a librarian. Cale\u2019s donations are currently part of the College’s rare books cataloguing project. We are gradually learning about the wide variety of material in his collection and his distinctive bindings and markings on the books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This set of brief works is an example of the wide variety of material collected by Cale. The items were published from 1718 to 1754 and cover topics including currency and finances, controlling infectious diseases, political debate, growing hops, and the criticism of the Moravian Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Mottled
Distinctive mottled calf binding of a Cale book<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hops farming<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Economic policy debate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Medical texts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
A very varied selection of works are bound in the same volume.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Related posts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Early Modern Library<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Very Serviceable Library<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resources and Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

More <\/a>about H<\/a>ertford’s Cale collection<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Information about our upcoming library renovation project<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rare Books and Archives at Hertford<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Search for Hertford rare books on the SOLO library catalogue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hertford Library’s special collections house books gifted in previous centuries to the college’s predecessors Hart Hall and Magdalen Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10,11,8,7,9],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rare-books","tag-17th-century","tag-18th-century","tag-benefactors-book","tag-cale","tag-donation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.hertford.ox.ac.uk\/library-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/11\/TD1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hertford.ox.ac.uk\/library-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hertford.ox.ac.uk\/library-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hertford.ox.ac.uk\/library-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hertford.ox.ac.uk\/library-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hertford.ox.ac.uk\/library-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hertford.ox.ac.uk\/library-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hertford.ox.ac.uk\/library-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hertford.ox.ac.uk\/library-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hertford.ox.ac.uk\/library-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hertford.ox.ac.uk\/library-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hertford.ox.ac.uk\/library-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}