Word info

bodleian

Speech parts

1. bodleian - Adjective

2. Bodleian - Proper noun

Meaning

Of or pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, or to the celebrated library at Oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Examples

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

A 14th-century manuscript, Book of Prayers, in the Francis Douce collection in the Bodleian Library at Oxford contains a drawing in which two persons are shown, but they bowl to no mark. Source: Internet

Archbishop of Canterbury (960–78) Theological manuscript from Glastonbury Abbey ( Bodleian Library ):Abbot Dunstan ordered the writing of this book. Source: Internet

A tunnel underneath Broad Street connects these buildings, with the Gladstone Link connecting the Old Bodleian and Radcliffe Camera opening to readers in 2011. Source: Internet

After completing her postgraduate studies, Rebecca hopes to help digitally repatriate objects and knowledge from the Pitt Rivers Museum and Bodleian Library at Oxford to the relevant indigenous communities in Australia. Source: Internet

Enlightenment era libraries Thomas Bodley founded the Bodleian Library in 1602 as an early public library. Source: Internet

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