Bodleian Library Publishing are delighted to announce the release of 548 scans of historical publications from the Bodleian and other University of Oxford libraries on HathiTrust. HathiTrust is a partnership of university libraries to preserve digital scans of printed collections. Our release makes over 250 collection guides, catalogues, exhibition books, and histories to which the Bodleian Libraries are rights holders open-access throughout the world.

Highlights of the Bodleian collection

The Bodleian publications now available to read on HathiTrust are especially helpful for researching the manuscripts, archives, and rare books that now form the library’s special collections. While most of our catalogues are now accessed primarily in digital forms, many readers overlook introductory printed guides. You can now read The Bodleian Library: A Subject Guide to the Collections (2004) for an overview of the system, or R.W. Hunt’s introduction to the library’s intricate system of shelfmarks in the first volume of the Summary Catalogue (1953). For recreation, you might simply browse photos of the Bodleian in the early 1950s.

Bodleian history

• Craster, H. H. E. History of the Bodleian Library, 1845–1945 (1952)
• The first printed catalogue of the Bodleian Library, 1605: a facsimile (1986)
• Gillam, Stanley, The Divinity School and Duke Humfrey’s Library at Oxford (1988)
• Gillam, Stanley, The Radcliffe Camera (1992)
• James Gibbs, 1682–1754, and the Radcliffe camera (1982)
• Wheeler, G. W., Letters of Sir Thomas Bodley to Thomas James: first keeper of the Bodleian library (1926)

Medieval and Byzantine manuscripts

• Alexander, J. J. G., Anglo-Saxon illumination in Oxford libraries (1970)
• Alexander, J. J. G., and Elżbieta Temple, Illuminated manuscripts in Oxford College libraries, the University Archives, and the Taylor Institution (1985)
• Alexander, J. J. G., and Otto Pächt, Illuminated manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (1966)
• De la Mare, Albinia C., Catalogue of the collection of medieval manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian Library, Oxford by James P. R. Lyell (1971)
• The Douce legacy: an exhibition to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the bequest of Francis Douce (1984)
• An exhibition of papyri, mainly in Greek (1990)
• Greek manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (1966)
• Hughes, Anselm, Medieval polyphony in the Bodleian Library (1951)
• Hunt, R. W., Saint Dunstan’s classbook from Glastonbury (1961)
• Hunt, R. W., The survival of ancient literature: catalogue of an exhibition of Greek and Latin classical manuscripts mainly from Oxford libraries (1975)
• Hunt, R. W., and Albinia de la Mare Duke Humfrey and English humanism in the fifteenth century (1970)
• Latin liturgical manuscripts and printed books. Guide to an exhibition held during 1952 (1952)
• Watson, Andrew G., Catalogue of dated and datable manuscripts c. 435–1600 in Oxford libraries (1984)
• Wilson, N. G., and D. I. Stefanović, Manuscripts of Byzantine chant in Oxford (1963)
• Wyclif and his followers (1984)

Modern manuscripts and archives

• Barker-Benfield, B. C., Shelley’s guitar: an exhibition of manuscripts, first editions and relics to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1992)
• Mozart: a bicentennial loan exhibition (1991)
• Catalogue of the Kafka centenary exhibition (1983)
• English literature in the seventeenth century (1957)
• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1972)
• Kiessling, Nicolas K., The legacy of Democritus Junior, Robert Burton (1990)
• Long, P., A summary catalogue of the Lovelace collection of the papers of John Locke in the Bodleian Library (1959)
• Paradigm: workbook on personal digital archives (2007)
• Rogers, T. D., and Clapinson, Mary, Summary catalogue of post-medieval western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: acquisitions, 1916–1975, SC 37300–55936 (1991)
• Spokes, P. S, Summary catalogue of manuscripts in the Bodleian Library relating to the city, county and University of Oxford; accessions from 1916 to 1962 (1964)
• T. E. Lawrence: the legend and the man (1988)
• Town and gown: eight hundred years of Oxford life (1982)

Oriental manuscripts and rare books

• Daly, Michael, The Turkish legacy: an exhibition of books and manuscripts to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kema Atatürk Kemal (1988)
• Helliwell, David, A catalogue of the old Chinese books in the Bodleian Library (1983)
• An Islamic book of constellations (1965)
• Life in Istanbul, 1588: scenes from a traveller’s picture book (1977)
• May, R. A., Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library: Supplement of addenda and corrigenda to vol. I (1994; see also the original, 1886–1906)
• Pingree, David Edwin, and Jonathan Katz, A descriptive catalogue of the Sanskrit and other Indian manuscripts of the Chandra Shum Shere collection in the Bodleian Library (1984)
• Robinson, B. W., and Basil Gray, The Persian art of the book: catalogue of an exhibition held at the Bodleian Library to mark the sixth International Congress of Iranian Art and Archaeology; (1972)

Rare books

• Barrett, David, Catalogue of the Wardrop Collection and of other Georgian books and manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (1973)
• Fine bindings 1500–1700 from Oxford libraries: catalogue of an exhibition (1968)
• The John Johnson collection (1971)
• A nation of shopkeepers: trade ephemera from 1654 to the 1860s in the John Johnson Collection (2001)
• Polonica from the Bodleian’s pre-1920 catalogue (1993)
• Rogers, D. M. and P. E. Russell, A catalogue of Hispanic manuscripts and books before 1700 (1962)
• Russian books from the Bodleian’s pre-1920 catalogue (1990)
• William Caxton: a small exhibition held in the Bodleian Library to commemorate the five hundredth anniversary of the first book printed in the English language (1976)

Maps

• Parsons, Edward John Samuel, and F. M. Stenton, The map of Great Britain circa A.D.1360, known as the Gough map (1958)
• Rodger, Elizabeth M, The large scale county maps of the British Isles, 1596–1850, a union list (1960)

Commonwealth and African archives and manuscripts

• Byrne, Wendy S, Manuscript collections (Africana and non-Africana) in Rhodes House Library, Oxford: supplementary accessions to the end of 1977, and cumulative index (1978)
• Frewer, Louis Benson, Manuscript collections of Africana in Rhodes House Library, Oxford (1968)
• Frewer, Louis Benson, Manuscript collections of Africana in Rhodes House Library, Oxford, supplement (1971)
• Holden, Pat, Women administrative officers in colonial Africa 1944–1960 (1985)
• Papers of Alexander Wilkie, MSS Brit. Emp. s 383, kept in Rhodes House Library, Oxford (1971)
• Papers of Edgar Barton Worthington: MSS Afr. s 1425, Kept in Rhodes House Library, Oxford (1971)
• Papers of J.W.H. O’Regan: MSS Brit. Emp. s 385, Kept in Rhodes House Library, Oxford (1971)
• Papers of the Fabian Colonial Bureau, MSS Brit. Emp. s 365. List 11: South Africa, South West Africa and the High Commission Territories, boxes 90–98, kept in Rhodes House Library, Oxford (1972)
• Papers of the London Group on African Affairs: MSS Afr. s 1427, Kept in Rhodes House Library, Oxford (1971)
• Pugh, Patricia, A catalogue of the papers of Frederick Dealtry Lugard, Baron Lugard of Abinger, 1858–1945 in Rhodes House Library, Oxford (1989)
• Report on the papers of E. Harland Duckworth (d. 1972), Inspector of Education in Nigeria (1972)
• Report on the papers of William Basil Worsfold, writer on South African and Imperial questions, 1858–1939 (1973)

We are grateful to everyone who made this project possible: Andrew Dunning, Samuel Fanous, Sarah Barkla, Ruth Mallalieu, Beth Gibbs, and Martin Kauffmann. We also thank our colleagues at Oxford University Press, who printed our books before the formation of Bodleian Library Publishing and supported this project.