Saturday 7 July 2007

Queen's College



Queen's is one of the oldest colleges at Oxford, having been founded in 1340, and it has had a library throughout its history. Today the library is located in a late 17th century building featuring both baroque and rococo elements. Although little remains from the medieval library, Queen's today still possesses one of the largest rare book collections among the Oxford colleges. Treasures relating to the seminar's period of focus include the Catholicon from Gutenberg's workshop, a Boccaccio owned by Pope Pius V (1566-1572), and David Garrick's copy of the Shakespeare first folio. I also saw an early copy of Luther's German bible, shown here.