New College Notes (ISSN 2517-6935)

The scholarly e-journal of New College, Oxford

New College Notes—the scholarly e-journal of New College, Oxford—is dedicated to research articles and learned notes on the history and life of the college, and especially the contents and history of the rich collections in our Library and Archives.

New College Notes is edited by the Librarian of New College, Dr Christopher Skelton-Foord.  Anyone wishing to contact or to contribute to this journal should email him.  Readers of our special collections in both the Library and in the Archives are warmly invited to send us contributions. 

The journal is available open-access to all interested readers through our website.  Both the current and past issues of New College Notes will remain accessible via this page.

Article Author Issue number Surname
A Book with a Price in the World: New College MS 274 Jenny Adams (2019): 11 Adams
Information Structures in New College MS 143 Codex of Philo of Alexandria Sean A. Adams (2021): 16 Adams
Forty Years of Women at New College: How Did They Get Here? Dennis A. Ahlburg (2020): 13 Ahlburg
Finding Inspector Morse in the Archives Dennis A. Ahlburg (2020): 13 Ahlburg
New College Examination Results in the Nineteenth Century: From ‘Uninspiring Indolence’ to ‘Academic Preeminence’ Dennis A. Ahlburg (2024): 21 Ahlburg
The Staircase to Nowhere and its Greek Inscription Stephen Anderson (2024): 21 Anderson
William Archibald Spooner and his Spoonerisms Sami Anderson-Talbi (2017): 08 Anderson-Talbi
‘A chain of invincible reasoning’? Isaac Newton’s Writing Practices in the New College Manuscripts Jack Avery (2022): 17 Avery
New College MS 287 and its Text Jemima Bennett (2022): 17 Bennett
Pounced Corrections in Oxford Copies of Cavendish’s Philosophical and Physical Opinions; or, Margaret Cavendish’s Glitter Pen Liza Blake (2018): 10 Blake
The First Issue of the First Edition of the First Edwardian Prayer Book: New College Library, Oxford, BT1.131.19 Peter W. M. Blayney (2021): 15 Blayney
Bells and Books: Not What You Might Expect in Oxford’s Dreaming Spires Helen Bond (2017): 08 Bond
Prussia and the Poodle Emily Bootle (2013): 03 Bootle
Upon the Unveiling of ‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ Michael Burden (2012): 02 Burden
Lending to the Manchester Art Exhibition in 1857 Michael Burden (2020): 13 Burden
Mary Woodforde’s Book Sophie Butler (2012): 02 Butler
Mary Woodforde’s Book Sophie Butler (2012): 02 Butler
A New Setting: John Heath’s Translation of The Accomplishment of the Prophecies, 1613 Mark Byford (2013): 03 Byford
Edmund Hakluyt: New College Singing Man, Tutor and Youngest Brother of Richard Hakluyt Daniel Carey (2013): 04 Carey
The Story of One Year in the Early Life of New College Brian Collins (2019): 11 Collins
New College’s Irish Airman Joseph Conlon (2018): 10 Conlon
The Bets of G. H. Hardy Joseph Conlon (2019): 11 Conlon
Warden Harmar and the Ralegh Trial Geoffrey Day (2015): 06 Day
Window-Mounted Cancels?: More Questions Than Answers Geoffrey Day (2019): 12 Day
‘Very inconsiderable exceptg that they are the Hand writing of so great a Man’: The Provenance of Isaac Newton’s Manuscripts at New College, Oxford Frederik Dhondt (2023): 19 Dhondt
Some Benefactors and their Heraldry Patric Dickinson (2023): 19 Dickinson
The Origin of New College MS 144: Some Text-Critical Observations Elias Dietz (2021): 15 Dietz
Looking for Scribal Play in Oxford, New College MS 314 Mary C. Flannery (2019): 12 Flannery
Pleyyng with May’s Age in Oxford, New College MS 314 Lucy Fleming (2023): 20 Fleming
How The Mound Got Its Quack Felix Flicker (2018): 10 Flicker
Robert Hedrington and Wynkyn de Worde at Winchester College Richard Foster (2016): 07 Foster
The Heretic Scribbler of New College MS 319 Antje G. Frotscher (2022): 18 Frotscher
Old English at New: Early Printed Books in Anglo-Saxon Type, 1570–1705 Antje G. Frotscher (2023): 19 Frotscher
The Palette and Pigments of a Thirteenth-Century Oxford Illuminator Richard Gameson (2021): 15 Gameson
New College Library Benefactors’ Book 1611-1615 Anna-Lujz Gilbert (2019): 11 Gilbert
Lord Thurlow: A Chancellorship in Caricature through New College’s Collection of Gillrays Ben Gilding (2021): 15 Gilding
Lord Thurlow: A Chancellorship in Caricature through New College’s Collection of Gillrays, Part II Ben Gilding (2023): 20 Gilding
Some Marginalia in Burnet’s History of My Own Time Lionel K. J. Glassey (2019): 12 Glassey
The Language and Meaning of the College Motto Mark Griffith (2012): 01 Griffith
The Long Reach of New College’s Catholic Apologists Robert Gullifer (2020): 14 Gullifer
The New College Fragments of Caxton’s Janua Grammar Hedwig Gwosdek (2013): 04 Gwosdek
The Mappa Mundi in Oxford, New College, MS 274 and the Aristotelian Theory of Elements Alfred Hiatt (2023): 20 Hiatt
An Ascension Day Ritual Revived: New College Chapel and St. Bartholomew’s Chapel Edward Higginbottom (2013): 04 Higginbottom
Doodles and Dry Point: An Initial Exploration of Additions to New College, MS 287 Jessica Hodgkinson (2024): 21 Hodgkinson
‘Bowlin Greens’ in Loggan’s Oxonia Illustrata (1675) Rebecca Hutchins (2013): 03 Hutchins
Gerard’s Herbal Rebecca Hutchins (2012): 01 Hutchins
‘The Origins and Life of William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester’ Christopher Johnson (2014): 05 Johnson
The German War Memorial in New College Chapel Elliot Jordan (2022): 17 Jordan
‘The divine Harvey’: The Afterlives of William Harvey Ludmilla Jordanova (2022): 17 Jordanova
New College MS 333: An Extraordinary Witness to the Harklean Syriac New Testament Piotr Jutkiewicz (2022): 17 Jutkiewicz
‘Scotus Viator’: R. W. Seton-Watson and the Making of Czechoslovakia Caitlín Kane (2022): 18 Kane
Fear Sells: Addenda to the 1588 Malleus Maleficarum Caitlín Kane (2023): 19 Kane
‘who gave the same to their daughter . . .’: Identifying Ownership of New College, Oxford’s Books of Hours Caitlín Kane (2024): 21 Kane
A Sad Case of Neglect: The First Chinese Book in New College Library Peter Kornicki (2018): 10 Kornicki
What is the Mound for? Robin Lane Fox (2013): 03 Lane Fox
Nicholas Stoughton (1592-1648): MP, Surrey Militia Officer, and Patron of International Learning Vivienne Larminie (2015): 06 Larminie
Law, Politics, and Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century: The Reputation of Nathaniel Fiennes Vivienne Larminie (2016): 07 Larminie
Memories of New College 1950-1954 John Ledingham (2015): 06 Ledingham
‘On love and friendship, either true or false’: Ordinatio of Text and of Meaning in Oxford, New College, MS 98 Samira Lindstedt (2021): 16 Lindstedt
Thomas Stapleton’s First Polemic: An Impact Case Study Jan Machielsen (2014): 05 Machielsen
New College of Magic and Wizardry: A Second Note on the 1566/7 Visitation Jan Machielsen (2016): 07 Machielsen
William Courtney and ‘the Woman Question’ Laura Marcus (2020): 14 Marcus
Reflections on Medieval Art, Politics, and the Courtrai Chest Joseph W. Mason (2022): 17 Mason
The Education of an Elizabethan Gentleman: Sir Alexander Temple at Oxford John Matthews (2019): 11 Matthews
The Papists of New College: I Katie McKeogh (2020): 14 McKeogh
The Invisible Book Randall McLeod with Timothy Perry (2021): 15 McLeod
‘Edifying Words’ in the Florilegium of New College MS 98 Rebecca Menmuir (2020): 13 Menmuir
Sixteenth-Century Ownership of the Bohun Apocalypse, New College MS 65 Arabella Milbank (2013): 04 Milbank
Alfred, Lord Milner in Russia, 1917 Jason Morgan (2013): 03 Morgan
New College MS 328 and ‘Jane the Quene’ Jason Morgan (2012): 01 Morgan
The Alfred Lord Milner South African Addresses Jason Morgan (2012): 02 Morgan
Chasing Provenance: Apuleius’s 250-Year Journey from Robert Dow’s All Souls’ to James Edwards Sewell’s New College Jason Morgan (2014): 05 Morgan
‘Yours truly Jack the Ripper’—of New College, Oxford? Jason Morgan (2016): 07 Morgan
Classifications in Time: The Rise of the Shelfmark on the Failure of Provenance Jason Morgan (2017): 08 Morgan
Dennis Potter: An Unconventional Dramatist Jason Morgan (2017): 08 Morgan
Lifting the Veil of Time: The Servants of New College Restored Jason Morgan (2017): 08 Morgan
Seeing the Light: Being the story of Sir Isaac Newton’s prisms and papers and the means by which they came to New College Jason Morgan (2018): 09 Morgan
Maria Regina Angliæ: A Gift for a Tudor Queen Jason Morgan (2018): 10 Morgan
‘Form! form! Riflemen form!’: The Oxford University Rifle Volunteer Corps in New College Archives Jason Morgan (2019): 11 Morgan
From Manuscript to Print: Tracing a Technological Revolution in the Collections of New College Library Jason Morgan (2019): 12 Morgan
‘A very unusual binding’: A Remarkable Julius Caesar in New College Library Jason Morgan (2021): 16 Morgan
‘Ancient virtue and manly spirits’: The New College Men Who Fell in the Second Boer War Jason Morgan (2023): 19 Morgan
The Russo-Japanese War on the Shelves of New College Library Alexander Morrison (2020): 14 Morrison
Thomas Neal (c. 1519–c. 1590): Catholic, Priest, Scholar Thomas Neal (2020): 14 Neal
‘His feet stunk out of cry’: Ben Stone’s Satirical Manuscript Verses on Thomas Coryate Philip S. Palmer (2014): 05 Palmer
New College and the Reformation David Parrott (2018): 09 Parrott
The British Civil Wars and the Defence of Oxford David Parrott (2019): 11 Parrott
‘The living Arts appear’d’: Shakespearean Ekphrasis in New College, MS 367 Anna-Nadine Pike (2021): 15 Pike
Christopher Saxton’s 1579 Atlas of England and Wales: An Unexpected Savilian Book Among New College Library’s Treasures Alexandra Plane (2019): 12 Plane
Some Early-Modern New College Poetical Miscellanies with Thomas Master’s Poem on his Cat William Poole (2012): 01 Poole
Thomas Master and the Mensa Lubrica: A Seventeenth-Century Gaming Poem William Poole (2013): 03 Poole
A New Manuscript for New College William Poole (2013): 03 Poole
A Poetic Squabble about Bottle Banks and Skips (1988) William Poole (2012): 02 Poole
Deciphering the Title-Page of a Book of William Thorne of New College, Regius Professor of Hebrew, and King James Bible Translator William Poole (2012): 01 Poole
Early Science in New College I: Robert Plot on New College (1677) William Poole (2012): 02 Poole
Early Science in New College II: The Oglander Collection (1730) William Poole (2012): 02 Poole
Fun with Grammar: Richard Zouche’s ‘Upon the Burning of a School’ William Poole (2013): 03 Poole
Inheriting, Selling and Buying Books in New College Library, 1675-1849 William Poole (2013): 03 Poole
Manuscript Waste William Poole (2012): 02 Poole
Shepilinda on New College in 1738 William Poole and Geoff Neate (2012): 01 Poole
Some Early-Modern New College Poetical Miscellanies with Thomas Master’s Poem on his Cat William Poole (2012): 01 Poole
The Bells of New College, from Five to Eight to Ten William Poole (2012): 01 Poole
Two Copies of a Clandestine Manuscript in Late Seventeenth-Century New College William Poole (2012): 01 Poole
The 1588 Donations of Thomas Martin, Lawyer and Recusant William Poole (2013): 04 Poole
Benjamin Stone, Dead Poet (c. 1612) William Poole (2013): 04 Poole
A New Acquisition: Christophorus Longolius’s Copy of the 1511 Parisian Edition of the Corpus Juris Civilis William Poole (2013): 04 Poole
An Early Modern New College Dynasty: George, Thomas and Bruno Ryves William Poole (2013): 04 Poole
Richard Willes: Sixteenth-Century Religious Renegade and Concrete Poet William Poole (2014): 05 Poole
John Reinolds, Dead Poet (1614); or, What Did Fellows Own When They Died in College? William Poole (2014): 05 Poole
Property of a Late Warden, 1613, with Some More on the Ryves Family William Poole (2014): 05 Poole
Three Letters from Stanley Casson to Francis Henry Taylor, 1932 William Poole (2014): 05 Poole
William Smith’s Biblical Notebook (1729): A Manuscript Recovered William Poole (2014): 05 Poole
Robert Burton and his Anatomy of Melancholy William Poole (2015): 06 Poole
Margaret Cavendish’s Books in New College, and around Oxford William Poole (2015): 06 Poole
The Female Pope, a Mutilated Manuscript, and Some Bibliographical Puzzles William Poole (2015): 06 Poole
Thomas Tanner (1630-1682): A Cosmopolitan Fellow of the Interregnum and his Donations to the Library William Poole (2015): 06 Poole
The Torture and Mock Hanging of a Butler, and Latin Macaronics in Civil War New College William Poole (2016): 07 Poole
A Recent Purchase: Julian the Apostate, Orationes (La Flèche, 1614) William Poole (2016): 07 Poole
An Unrecorded Letter of Sir Francis Bacon, to New College, 12 April 1617 William Poole (2016): 07 Poole
Early Science in New College III William Poole (2016): 07 Poole
More Stanley Casson Materials William Poole (2016): 07 Poole
Daniel Vivian’s Grand Tour, 1636–37 (New College, MS 348) William Poole (2017): 08 Poole
“This Dooth Erasmus Williams Represent”, Richard Haydock, 1608 William Poole (2017): 08 Poole
The Receipt of Manuscripts in New College Library 1624-1852 William Poole (2017): 08 Poole
Teaching and Learning in Jacobean New College: The Foundation of the Lake Lectureships William Poole (2018): 09 Poole
New College Library Benefactors’ Book 1601-1610: An Edition William Poole (2018): 09 Poole
A Periegetical Poem from Jacobean New College: Richard Zouche’s The Dove (1613) William Poole (2018): 10 Poole
The Two Euclids of Daniel Appleford (d. 1645) William Poole (2019): 11 Poole
A Mathematical Chaplain: The Books of Richard Bestwick William Poole (2019): 11 Poole
Stephen Standish and the Provenance of the New College Astronomicum Cæsareum (1540) William Poole and Daniel Fried (2019): 12 Poole
Naps upon Parnassus: Some Attempts at Literary Humour in Elizabethan and Jacobean New College William Poole (2020): 13 Poole
Edward Bernard (1638–1697) and New College William Poole (2020): 14 Poole
Bonfoy Trimnell (d. 1691): Birthday Poet, and Donor of Newton’s Principia William Poole (2021): 15 Poole
What could it be? An Eighteenth-Century Wig-Curler William Poole (2021): 15 Poole
William Musgrave (1655–1721): An Early Modern New College Natural Philosopher, Physician, and Antiquary William Poole (2021): 16 Poole
A New Year’s Gift from 1600 William Poole (2022): 17 Poole
Thomas Flatman, Unlikely First FRS of New College William Poole (2023): 20 Poole
A Tale of Two Iliads: Oxford New College 298 and Trinity College Dublin 922 Mateu Portells Watson (2023): 20 Portells Watson
Ralph Hope Mark Pyper (2024): 21 Pyper
It’s a Girl!: A Winchester Poetic Manuscript of c. 1719 Lucia Quinault (2014): 05 Quinault
MS 86 of the Fellows’ Library, Winchester Lucia Quinault (2015): 06 Quinault
Brotherly Love? Dr Young among the Thespians Lucia Quinault (2018): 09 Quinault
New College MS 298: A Story of the Manuscript Alberto Ravani (2021): 16 Ravani
William Dowsing Reads a Plague Sermon Dunstan Roberts (2020): 13 Roberts
Philo of Alexandria at New College James R. Royse (2020): 13 Royse
Andrew Holes and John Burgh: Two Wykehamists, One Manuscript Collection David Rundle (2023): 19 Rundle
Luther’s Biblia Sacra of 1529 Cressida Ryan (2022): 18 Ryan
Evidence of an Early Modern Scholar’s Visit to the Library at New College, Oxford in the Early Seventeenth Century Renae Satterley (2021): 15 Satterley
The Authorship of New College MS 303 Alison Shell (2021): 15 Shell
A Changing World: Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia from 1544—BT3.187.1(2) William Shire (2021): 16 Shire
Representing Reality: A Century of Dutch Golden Age Maps at New College Library William Shire (2022): 18 Shire
Sir Philip Rashleigh, Mineralogy, and the Cornish Industrial Revolution William Shire (2023): 19 Shire
A Tale of Two Books: The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies at New College Library William Shire (2023): 20 Shire
Austria-Hungary during the First World War: German-Language Material in the Seton-Watson Collection at New College Library, Oxford William Shire (2024): 21 Shire
A Hard Day for the Scribe of MS 66, a Wycliffite Bible in New College, Oxford John Zachariah Shuster (2018): 10 Shuster
Jane Austen First Editions: Aves and the Sparrow Christopher Skelton-Foord (2018): 09 Skelton-Foord
Anniversaries, Alumni, and Acquisitions: New College Library in 2019 Christopher Skelton-Foord (2019): 12 Skelton-Foord
The Penitent’s Tale; or, New College Library’s Copy of The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717) Christopher Skelton-Foord (2019): 12 Skelton-Foord
The New College Porters Christopher Skelton-Foord (2020): 14 Skelton-Foord
Some Notable Acquisitions and Associations from 2020 Christopher Skelton-Foord (2020): 14 Skelton-Foord
Novelty and Notability: New College Library Acquisitions 2021 Christopher Skelton-Foord (2021): 16 Skelton-Foord
The Appeal of Eros to Apollo: A New Manuscript for New College, Oxford Christopher Skelton-Foord (2022): 17 Skelton-Foord
Chasing Somervile, New College’s Poet of the Hunt Christopher Skelton-Foord (2022): 18 Skelton-Foord
Ned Warren’s ‘Jack in the Pulpit’: New College MS 380 and Textual Transmission Christopher Skelton-Foord (2022): 18 Skelton-Foord
A Library about New College: Noteworthy Acquisitions in 2022 Christopher Skelton-Foord (2022): 18 Skelton-Foord
Some Notes on New College Hunters Christopher Skelton-Foord (2023): 19 Skelton-Foord
Collecting Christopher Skelton-Foord (2023): 20 Skelton-Foord
Unique and Distinctive Acquisitions to New College Library in 2023 Christopher Skelton-Foord (2023): 20 Skelton-Foord
Edward Sackville-West’s Marcus Fleming: New College Anti-Hero? Christopher Skelton-Foord (2024): 21 Skelton-Foord
A Newly Acquired Literary Manuscript, MS 381: The Autograph Copy of Cyril Hare’s When the Wind Blows (1949) Christopher Skelton-Foord (2024): 21 Skelton-Foord
Warden Robert Pink and the Disputed Election of 1620 Robert F.W. Smith (2015): 06 Smith
New College, MSS 8–13: A Remarkable Biblical Commentary from the Fifteenth Century Lesley Smith (2022): 18 Smith
Thomas Milles’ Modified Books Adam Smyth (2016): 07 Smyth
New College MS 333: The Euthalian Apparatus and Menander’s Lost Thais Derek Spears (2018): 10 Spears
Contemplating Cavendish: An Analysis of Reader Marks in Playes (1662) E. Mariah Spencer (2021): 16 Spencer
Lechlade Hospital of St John Michael Stansfield (2022): 18 Stansfield
New College School Archive Michael Stansfield (2022): 18 Stansfield
The Acquisition of Alton Barnes as a New College Estate in 1385 Michael Stansfield (2023): 20 Stansfield
New College MCR: The 60th Anniversary Michael Stansfield (2023): 20 Stansfield
Amicabilis Concordia 1444–2024 Michael Stansfield (2024): 21 Stansfield
Robert Sharrock and the “History of the Propagation & Improvement of Vegetables” Anna Svensson (2017): 08 Svensson
A Taste of the Eighteenth Century Marjory Szurko (2018): 10 Szurko
New College’s Shakespeare Club Jennifer Thorp (2013): 03 Thorp
Conservation of the College Archives Jennifer Thorp (2012): 02 Thorp
George Washington and the Ammunition Crisis of 1777 Jennifer Thorp (2012): 02 Thorp
Thame School and New College Jennifer Thorp (2012): 01 Thorp
Warden Fisher and the General Strike in 1926 Jennifer Thorp (2012): 01 Thorp
New College’s Shakespeare Club Jennifer Thorp (2013): 03 Thorp
The Chapel Reredos Jennifer Thorp (2013): 04 Thorp
An Inquest of 1566 Jennifer Thorp (2014): 05 Thorp
New College Servants in the 1914–18 War Jennifer Thorp (2014): 05 Thorp
The John Lane Albums Jennifer Thorp (2014): 05 Thorp
West Gallery Woes: The Hornchurch Dispute of 1813 Jennifer Thorp (2015): 06 Thorp
A Medieval Travel Warrant Jennifer Thorp (2016): 07 Thorp
Women in New College—350 Years Ago? Jennifer Thorp (2018): 09 Thorp
‘Hurried out of my life . . . my horses are at the door’: Harry Peckham and the Stewardship of New College’s Estates During the 1770s Jennifer Thorp (2018): 10 Thorp
Nephew Bill Goes to Sea Jennifer Thorp (2019): 11 Thorp
Identifying the ‘Revd. Robt. Lowth’ in J. Sturges’s Letter to Mr. Cadell Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (2022): 18 Tieken-Boon van Ostade
The Other Samuel Johnson’s English Grammar Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (2022): 18 Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Samuel Rolles Driver: His Impact on the Reformed View of the Patriarch Jacob and the Meaning of his Name Oleg M. Tsymbalyuk (2020): 13 Tsymbalyuk
Agincourt Sermon Christopher Tyerman (2017): 08 Tyerman
Jerome’s Journey: William Warham and the Dedication Copy of Erasmus’s Edition of Jerome (1516) Tim Wade (2019): 12 Wade
Capturing Sound: The Art of William de Brailes in New College MS 322 Shelley Morwenna Williams (2022): 17 Williams
Cyprian in England James Willoughby (2019): 11 Willloughby
A Fifteenth-Century Bookman James Willoughby (2012): 02 Willoughby
A Marginal Follower of Fashion James Willloughby (2013): 03 Willoughby
A Medieval Binding James Willoughby (2012): 02 Willoughby
News from the Library c. 1700 James Willoughby (2012): 01 Willoughby
A New Incunable for College: Wynkyn de Worde’s Golden Legend, 1498 James Willoughby (2013): 04 Willoughby
The King’s Eye James Willoughby (2015): 06 Willoughby
A Lamentable Book James Willoughby (2018): 09 Willoughby
An Italian Visitor to the Library, c. 1525 James Willoughby (2018): 09 Willoughby
An Early College Bookbinder James Willoughby (2020): 13 Willoughby
John Farley (d. 1464) and the Finessing of MS 281 James Willoughby (2021): 15 Willoughby
John Russell (c. 1430–1494) and a Fragmentary Witness to Peter Schoeffer’s 1470 edition of Jerome’s Letters James Willoughby (2024): 21 Willoughby
The Good Boy’s Book of Hours: New College MS 160 Anne B. Yardley (2019): 12 Yardley
A Visual ‘Note’: New College from an Unusual Angle Miles Young (2017): 08 Young
A New College Pun Revisited Miles Young (2018): 09 Young
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