New College Notes—issue 21 now published

Staircase (top), Gradel Quadrangles, New College, Oxford

The twenty-first issue of New College, Oxford’s scholarly open-access e-journal New College Notes (ISSN 2517–6935) is now published.

 

This latest issue includes articles on: tantalising dry-point in New College’s Tudor MS 287; who owned New College’s celebrated books of hours; a friendly agreement of 1444 between New College, Oxford, King’s College, Cambridge, Winchester College, and Eton College; and the 1472 inscription of the first English purchaser of duplicate books. Contributors include: Jessica Hodgkinson, Caitlín Kane, Michael Stansfield, and James Willoughby.

 

New College Notes is dedicated to research articles and learned notes on the history and life of New College, and especially the contents and history of the rich collections of New College Library & Archives, Oxford.  Potential contributors are invited to contact the Librarian.