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	Thomas Bodley
		English diplomatist and scholar, founder of the Bodleian library, Oxford, was born at Exeter on the 2nd of March 1545.
		He was buried in the choir of Merton College chapel where a monument of black and white marble was erected to him.
		In 1563 he took his B.A. degree, and was admitted a fellow of Merton College.
	www.nndb.com /people/859/000094577 (521 words)

	Find in a Library: A history of Merton College, Oxford
		Find in a Library: A history of Merton College, Oxford
		Publisher: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
		WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries.
	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/2d9d1d13bc39f80ca19afeb4da09e526.html (64 words)

	Merton College, Oxford: general information
		The College's founder was Walter de Merton, Lord Chancellor of England and Bishop of Rochester.
		The Library is probably the oldest surviving working library in the United Kingdom, and the Hall, Chapel, Lodge and Mob Quadrangle also date from the College's early years.
		It is one of three ancient Oxford colleges founded in the thirteenth century.
	www.merton.ox.ac.uk /generalinfo/gen_info.html (110 words)

	Reporter 8/11/00: Merton College
		Merton College Library is the oldest in England and now contains circa 70,000 printed volumes, 112 incunabula, and 300 manuscripts, and houses several special collections.
		Merton College is offering three or four Domus Graduate Scholarships in 2001, in two separate competitions, A and B. The Scholarships are intended to assist students of outstanding academic excellence who for financial reasons would not otherwise be able to study at the University of Oxford.
		Merton College proposes to elect a Greendale Scholar from 1 October 2001.
	www.admin.cam.ac.uk /reporter/2000-01/weekly/5825/44.html (583 words)

	Oxford Historic Sites - The Best Historic Sites in Oxford, UK - England - 10Best
		The college’s medieval library is the oldest still in use, housing such items an astrolabe thought to have belonged to Geoffrey Chaucer and the first Bible printed in Welsh.
		They were all students at Merton, one of Oxford’s original three colleges.
		Although portions of the college’s grounds are closed to the general public, it is possible upon occasion to find an obliging host who will be more than happy to walk you around.
	www.10best.com /Oxford/Leisure_Activities/Historic_Sites/index.html?businessID=20460 (1166 words)

	Merton JCR: Home
		Tutorials given by leading academics, extensive library provision and an atmosphere of quiet determination among students mean Merton students achieve some of the best results in the University.
		Merton continues to be one of the most academically successful colleges in Oxford.
		Situated in the centre of Oxford within beautiful grounds, Merton is one of the oldest and prettiest colleges.
	jcr.merton.ox.ac.uk (449 words)

	OUP: History of Merton College: Martin
		A History of Merton College discusses the development of the college library, and the impact of John Wyclif on Merton and the University.
		Merton College, established in 1264, was the first self-governing college in Oxford, and the model for all the historic colleges of Oxford and Cambridge.
		Merton maintained its character as a mainly graduate society until the nineteenth century, and its modern development has preserved a strong, scholarly tradition.
	www.oup.co.uk /isbn/0-19-920183-8 (401 words)

	Merton College, Oxford MyTravelGuide.com
		Founded in 1264 by Walter de Merton, the college has the oldest buildings in the entire university and the oldest surviving medieval library.
		Merton isn't one of the best known Oxford colleges, but it is one of the largest, and one of three colleges claiming to be the oldest in Oxford (the others are Balliol and University).
		Improve the Merton College listing by providing a photo, description or suggesting a correction.
	www.mytravelguide.com /attractions/profile.jsp?objectid=78711405 (266 words)

	Merton College Library
		The Merton College Library is a member of OLIS.
		The following table lists these codes for the Merton College Library.
		OPEN TO MEMBERS OF MERTON COLLEGE ONLY Archives, Manuscripts, Early Printed Books and Special Collections may be consulted by all bona fide researchers by appointment only.
	www.lib.ox.ac.uk /libraries/guides/MER.html (178 words)

	Medieval Bestiary : Merton College Library Bibliography
		249 in the Merton College Library, Oxford) and the Problem of the Illustrations of the Medieval Poetical Bestiary (in Jan Goossens, ed., Niederdeutsche Studien, Schriftenreihe der Kommission fur Mundart and Namenforschung des Landschafts, Cologne: Third International Beast Epic, Fable and Fabliau Colloquium, Munster 1979, 1981, 217-246)
	www.bonus.com /contour/medieval_bestiary/http@@/bestiary.ca/institutes/institutebiblio1331.htm (69 words)

	Manuscripts--individual libraries
		Access to over 80 early manuscripts in Balliol College, Bodleian Library, Corpus Christi College, Jesus College, Magdalen College, Merton College, St. John's College
		The western manuscripts in the library of Trinity college, Cambridge.
		A descriptive catalsite.ebrary.comogue of the manuscripts in the library of Jesus College, Cambridge.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/medieval/mss/manind.html (875 words)

	Merton College, Oxford: the library
		From the outset the founder of the college, Walter de Merton, recognised the importance to the College of its ‘evidences’ – its foundation charter, statutes and title deeds – in maintaining its rights and property as well as its collegiate identity.
		The other tenement, rebuilt in 1580, originally housed the Postmasters, or Scholars, of Merton College, and so gives its name to the whole complex.
		The site has been intimately associated with the college since at least 1273, when the first Warden, Peter of Abingdon, acquired two adjoining tenements on the north side of Merton Street for his private lodging.
	www.merton.ox.ac.uk /library/developments.htm (365 words)

	Merton College, Oxford: general information
		The College's founder was Walter de Merton, Lord Chancellor of England and Bishop of Rochester.
		The Library is probably the oldest surviving working library in the United Kingdom, and the Hall, Chapel, Lodge and Mob Quadrangle also date from the College's early years.
		Walter's conception of a self-governing community of scholars, with its own statutes and endowment, residing in buildings laid out in staircases and quadrangles, created a model and precedent for Oxford and Cambridge colleges founded in the succeeding centuries.
	www.merton.ox.ac.uk /generalinfo/gen_info.html (110 words)

	LIBRARIES
		The Bodleian Library in the University of Oxford is named after its founder Sir Thomas Bodley, but its roots go back to much earlier endeavours relating to the creation of college libraries.
		After his return to London he attended courses in various of the colleges of Oxford, and at the age of twenty-five years a number of university positions were entrusted to him.
		Sir Thomas Bodley died in 1613 and was buried at public expense in the chapel of Merton College.
	www.libraries.gr /nonmembers/en/libraries_bodlhiani.htm (620 words)

	Medicean-Laurentian Library -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In England libraries were established at Pembroke College, Cambridge University in 1347 and at Merton College, Oxford University in 1377.
		The Harvard University Library is both the oldest library in the United States and the largest academic library in the world.
		Lesson plan and guide to visit the Library of Congress to study importance of this and other libraries.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9051735?tocId=9051735 (761 words)

	FOUNDER'S LUNCH, 14 MARCH 1998
		We have continued to receive welcome contributions, too, from the Helen Roll Charity and from a number of Oxford Colleges, including Merton, Bodley's own, where he is buried, and which he always venerated as the "place of his first education in learning".
		Sir Peter North, our immediate past Vice-Chancellor, and who was (and who remains) such an influential advocate for the Library, and who now performs a key role as the President of the University Development Office, could undoubtedly entertain us for hours with many fascinating insights into the life of a fundraiser out on the stump.
		We shared, along with the Ashmolean and New College, in the substantial residue of the estate of the late Miss Cynthia Perrins, who had been a Friend of the Bodleian for 40 years.
	www.bodley.ox.ac.uk /librarian/founders1998/founders1998.htm (2764 words)

	Francis Herbert Bradley
		Bradley's unpublished papers, notebooks and letters received are in the library of Merton College, Oxford.
		After more than one failure to obtain a college fellowship, he was in December 1870 elected to one at Merton College Oxford, tenable for life, with no teaching duties, and terminable only on marriage.
		In 1856 F.H. Bradley's schooling began at Cheltenham College; in 1861 he was transferred to Marlborough College, then under his half-brother's Headship.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/bradley (5456 words)

	Merton JCR: Home
		Merton continues to be one of the most academically successful colleges in Oxford.
		Tutorials given by leading academics, extensive library provision and an atmosphere of quiet determination among students mean Merton students achieve some of the best results in the University.
		Merton is also a fantastic place to meet new friends, try different activities or continue enjoying a favourite diversion.
	jcr.merton.ox.ac.uk (5456 words)

	Thomas Linacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The most important service Linacre conferred upon his own profession and science was the foundation by royal charter of the College of Physicians in London, and he was the first president of the new college, which he further aided by bequeathing to it his own house and library.
		Two readerships were founded at Merton College, Oxford, and one at St John's College, Cambridge, but owing to neglect and bad management of the funds, they fell into uselessness and obscurity.
		The Oxford foundation was revived by the university commissioners in 1856 in the form of the Linacre professorship of anatomy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Linacre (1220 words)

	Teaching & Research Facilities for Linguistics at Oxford
		Linguistics books may also be borrowed from the Modern Languages Faculty Library, the English Faculty Library, the Oriental Institute Library, and the Philosophy Library in Merton Street.
		Information about Oxford libraries is provided by the pamphlet on Libraries, which you can obtain from your college (or the University Offices).
		The Taylorian, unlike the Bodleian, is a lending library.
	www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk /about/facilities.html (544 words)

	Regent Radio :: N.T. Wright
		Born in 1948, he studied for the ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and was ordained as Junior Research Fellow and Junior Chaplain at Merton College, Oxford.
		Regent Radio is designed to bring selections from our library to the body of Christ outside the walls of the College.
		Regent College is an international graduate school of Christian studies that educates, nurtures and equips women and men to live, work and minister in ways which honour God in their varied vocations.
	www.regentbookstore.com /radio/speaker_info.php?speakerID=nwright (469 words)

	Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House: Williams, Revd Charles Kingsley
		Administrative/Biographical history : Reverend Charles Kingsley Williams was educated at Birkenhead School and the University of Oxford (Merton College and Mansfield College).
		Williams became assistant vice-principal of the College, a post he held until 1938 when he returned to England.
		In 1927 Williams was invited to go to the Gold Coast by the Reverend Alexander Garden Fraser, the principal of the Prince of Wales College in Achimota, Accra.
	www.mundus.ac.uk /cats/11/1292.htm (469 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography Sa-Sp
		He was a member of the council of the working men's college and a trustee for many years of the public library, museums, and national gallery of Victoria.
		From 1879 he was a fellow of Merton College, and in 1884 was appointed professor of classics at the university of Sydney; his inaugural lecture, What is Classical Study, delivered on 23 March 1885, was published as a pamphlet.
		He was one of the leaders in the movement for the establishment of the women's college, and as dean of the faculty of arts encouraged the teaching of modern literature, history and philosophy, and the inauguration of university extension lectures.
	gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogSa-Sp.html (469 words)

	Britannia Biographies: Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury
		Thomas was born in Sussex and studied at the College which Walter de Merton had recently founded in Oxford.
		About 1335, Bradwardine was summoned to London to assist Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham, in collecting books for his great library.
		He became Proctor of the University and, in that capacity, took part in resisting the claim of certain unscrupulous people to farm the revenues of the Archdeaconry of Oxford, which was held by the Cardinal of St. Lucia, although he neglected to perform the duties of the office.
	www.britannia.com /bios/abofc/tbradwardine.html (319 words)

	OSB. The Cistercians. Index.
		The Merton Collection, Wellehan Library, Saint Joseph's College of Maine.
		The Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Ireland
		Hugh Witzmann OSB, "Saint Benedict" (bronze) (Saint John's Abbey).
	www.gwu.edu /~dmpdl (319 words)

	Chess Area Links
		History Historic manuscripts at the Merton College library at Oxford.
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	www.chess-area.com /links_1-3.html (3726 words)

	Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House: Williams, Revd Charles Kingsley
		Administrative/Biographical history: Reverend Charles Kingsley Williams was educated at Birkenhead School and the University of Oxford (Merton College and Mansfield College).
		In 1927 Williams was invited to go to the Gold Coast by the Reverend Alexander Garden Fraser, the principal of the Prince of Wales College in Achimota, Accra.
		Williams became assistant vice-principal of the College, a post he held until 1938 when he returned to England.
	www.mundus.ac.uk /cats/11/1292.htm (307 words)

	ODL - Digital Initatives at Oxford University
		Balliol College, Bodleian Library, Corpus Christi, Jesus College, Magdalen College, Merton College and St John's College
		Oxford Digital Library for Forestry - Stage 2
		SJC Ms17: Completing a unique work of medieval science with commentary and improved access
	www.odl.ox.ac.uk /collections (225 words)

	Simon Ho's Page about Oxford
		Merton College (1264): Has the oldest library in Britain (oldest university library in the world), oldest quadrangle.
		Balliol College (1263): Graduates include Aldous Huxley (writer), and Graham Greene (writer), Masako Owada (Crown Princess of Japan), Adam Smith (economist), and John Wyclif (translator of the Bible).
		The Queen's College (1341): Graduates and former Fellows include Rowan Atkinson (comedian), Tim Berners-Lee (creator of the World Wide Web), Edmund Halley (astronomer), and King Henry V of England.
	www.simonho.org /Oxford.htm (225 words)

	13245.txt
		The old days of neglect are past, the days reflected in the scandalous story--told of more than one college--about the old fellow who was missing for two months, and, after being searched for high and low, was found hanging dead in the college library.
		John's or the antiquarian charm of the old walls at New College or Merton; but, for the variety and fine growth of their trees, they are unsurpassed, though the glory of these is passing.
		The old local connections which were such a marked feature in the statutes of founders, and which so profoundly influenced Oxford down to the Commission of 1854, have been almost swept away at other colleges; but at Queen's they have always been strongly maintained.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/3/2/4/13245/13245.txt (15103 words)

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