#duke humfrey's library

[essayisms]

The Duke Humfrey’s Library - the oldest reading room in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.

#journal #litblr #study #studyblr #booklr #literature #bookblr #english literature #books #university #oxford university #duke humfreys library #bodleian library #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #library #study inspo #study inspiration #study motivation

[coruscatingdust]

The libraries I study at most often

#I love my school #Oxford #university of oxford #dark academia #dark academia moodbord #dark academia layouts #dark academia aesthetic #dark academism #photography #studyblr #duke humfrey’s library

[iridescentdescendant]

definitely my favourite study spot // duke humfrey's library, oxford

#duke humfreys library #oxford #england #studyblr #study aesthetic #dark academism #academism #library #library aesthetic #dark academia #light academia #university of oxford #hogwarts aesthetic #academia core

[heartofstanding]

sometimes I genuinely consider changing the way i spell Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester’s name to Humfrey.

#i resist the urge to call him homfrey #i do like calling him humpers #but now i'm thinking about calling him home fry #or hompy #text posts #(i am not merely shit posting) #(the argument behind 'humfrey' is that this is closer to how he spelt his name himself #(he actually spells it homfrey but whatevers) #and is in line with the library that bears his name - duke humfrey's library in the bodelian) #(but humphrey is the standardised spelling so it's much more common)

[01libra]

books of duke humfrey’s library; university of oxford

#mine #oxford university #library #booklr #study space #studyspo #studyblr #dark academia

[magicaloxford]

Lost in the mysterious past among the glowing blues, golds, and browns of Oxford’s Duke Humfrey library. 📚🌠

#oxford #old libraries #academia #classic academia #libraries #bookblr #books & libraries #books and reading #university #mine #college life #university of oxford #bodleian library #harry potter #hogwarts #academia moodboard #old books #book community #library aesthetic #booklr

[an-obsessed-bibliophile]

Duke Humfrey's Library

#bodleian library #old library #library #old books #book #book history #manuscript #medieval #dark academia

[chrispalmermusic]

Chris Palmer - Duke Humfrey’s Library

#chrispalmermusic #music #piano

[mohawkmind]

Duke Humfrey’s Library, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University

#oxford #bodleianlibrary #reading room #books #libraries

[costarringyourlocallibrary]

The interior of Duke Humfrey’s Library in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford in Marek Kanievska’s Another Country (1984). (Identified in the film as an English public school.)

#Oxford University Libraries #Another Country (1984)

[apinchofm]

Miyako

Part 1

Season 3 AU - why would Baldwin all of a sudden give into Gerbert, of all people? What, or rather who did he, have on him?

Mix. Of book and tv show.

Miyako met Jack Blacfriars the following morning. Ysabeau had arrived from Sept Tours, to check on her granddaughter and to assist Diana and Phoebe in their search for Ashmole 782.

Jack took a deep breath, not wanting his blood rage to flare up. He could end up attacking Miyako and he was more than certain she would take pleasure in killing him.

She scrunched up her nose in disgust when she walked past him,"He reeks of Hubbard's flock. Don't tell me anyone gave him blood."

Diana coughs, "I did. But he only got my secrets, not the family's."

Miyako tuts condensing, "So you are dumber than I previously assumed. Thank you for confirming. I am so glad my dear uncle has continued the trend of copulating with idiots."

"Now excuse me. young lady-" Sarah snapped, more than tired of the attitude.

"You are excused," Miyako replied in kind. She was in every way, her father's daughter.

"Okay," Ysabeau stopped any further argument, "Miyako, you will accompany Phoebe and me with Diana to the Bodleian." Her tone left little room for argument.

"I suppose I must." Miyako rolled her eyes, "It is a matter of staying here with one of uncle Matthew's spawn or assisting the vessel that carries more of them."

Diana scoffed, "I'm going to get my coat." She did not wish to quarrel with her, especially heavily pregnant and already stressed. Sarah followed her niece out.

"What is it you want, child?" Ysabeau was the only vampire aside from Philippe and her father to call her that. She was centuries older and Miyako respected and cared for her.

"I want my papa. What if Gerbert has already-?" Miyako began.

"Miyako." Ysabeau scolded, "Do not say that. You do not say that until it comes to pass."

Even when Philippe was being tortured during the war, not once did Ysabeau ever utter the thought that he would die. Not until he was returned to Sept Tours.

Miyako nodded, "I am sorry if my insults towards uncle Matthew offend you, grand-mere. I will reduce them."

"My dear, your aunts have done worse." Ysabeau smiled, "You are angry and hurt, and you have your right to be. I cannot deny that. I fear your grandfather overestimated how much we would get along."

"He was too optimistic." Miyako criticized, "He sacrificed himself pointlessly."

"Your father is doing the same thing." Ysabeau pointed out.

"It is not the same."

"But it is." Ysabeau corrected, "Your father and I have scarcely been friendly. But I do know Lucius, far more than he realises. And he treats you the same way Philippe did his daughters. He would have died for them."

Miyako's eyebrows furrowed in confusion, "He would kill for everyone in this family."

"You misunderstand me. Yes, Lucius and Philippe would kill for this family. But it is their daughters who they would die for." Ysabeau said, "That was one of the reasons I had him stop with Anastasia. They let you get away with anything, but he almost died saving his daughter."

"So this is my fault? Is that what you are saying?" Miyako snapped. She had wanted nothing to do with this. She definitely did not want witches in the family, breaking the Covenant.

The older vampire sighed, "This is a complex situation. Blame cannot be assigned. Now, you want to help? Help this family."

....

Miyako did love Oxford and the Bodleian. But the search for the Book of Life still seemed hopeless, despite the growth of Diana's powers.

"Herr Fuchs!" Miyako's ears pricked at Diana's voice. Benjamin was here. In the Bodleian.

And they had a human with them. His brother's mate. Miyako quickly put down the book she was holding when she ran to where they were, following the scent and conversation to Duke Humfrey's library.

Diana was standing still and confident, whilst Phoebe was wrapped in Benjamin's arms, terrified and bleeding.

“....I expected Matthew. Instead I get his mate. And my brother’s, too.” Benjamin’s nose went to the pulse under Phoebe’s ear. His teeth grazed her flesh. She bit her lip to keep from crying out. “What a good boy Marcus is, always standing by his father. I wonder if he’ll stand by you, pet, once I’ve made you mine.”

"Benjamin." She caught his attention.

"Miyako." His grin was wide, "My, quite a family reunion we have here. We just need Lucius."

Miyako knew what he was doing. Trying to get under her skin, "You could snap her neck or drain her dry. Go ahead. Go on."

Benjamin raised an eyebrow, "You do not approve of your beloved cousin's mate?"

"Well, when you drink from her, you will presumably see why we kept Marcus and why you were abandoned." Miyako replied, "You are diseased and worthless. Did you truly believe you could be worth enough to carry the de Clermont name?"

"She is right."

Ysabeau had arrived, holding the back of Benjamin's neck, allowing Phoebe to free herself from his clutches.

"Phoebe. Go with Diana and Ysabeau." Phoebe looked hesitant leaving Miyako. But she did as she was told slowly walking the witch. Diana too was hesitant but checked Phoebe was okay, before the two left to find Gallowglass.

"A shame. I would have enjoyed a good fight with you." Benjamin said, "But we are not to fight here. No. This place is too... pretty. I doubt a woman with your etiquette and training would want to destroy it."

"You could not even get my grandfather to destroy those beautiful churches funded with Vlad's money." Miyako reminded him, "What makes you believe a pathetic attempt at kidnapping would engage us in a fight?"

"Because," Benjamin said in a sing-song voice, "I have daddy dearest."

Miyako stared back at him, "My father is in Venice."

At this point, Ysabeau had released him from her grip, knowing she would have to listen to what he said if they were to help Baldwin.

"Of course, he is," Benjamin replied sarcastically, "I am going to tear down the house of de Clermont brick by brick, starting with you dear father. The last of Philippe's bloodline," He turned his head to look at his grandmother, "Then your son. And his son. But for now..."

He had run and Ysabeau was after him out of the doors that flew open at the sheer force of the two beings.

Miyako sensed the first child approach her before he could even formulate his first move and with ease, she dodged the incoming swing to her head, elegantly breaking his neck and taking his head from his body.

She did not even notice the blood splatter and instantly grabbed the other blood raged girl who had come at her, ripping her beating heart out of her chest.

That was, after all how she felt at the present moment. It was no longer a question of seeing Baldwin again. It was more a query of where he was and what Gerbert and Benjamin had done to him.

#adow fic #adow au #all souls trilogy #miyako de clermont #diana bishop #phoebe taylor #the Bodleian #a discovery of witches #book x tv fusion #ysabeau de clermont

[essayisms]

This is one part of The Duke Humfrey's Library which was added by Sir Thomas Bodley (who the Bodleian is now named after) who offered to restore it in 1598. When he was attending Oxford University, the library did not even have a ceiling as it had been stripped and abandoned during the Reformation.

#journal #yes I went on the tour #information courtesy of Lucinda shout out to Lucinda #the duke humfreys library #bodleian library #litblr #booklr #bookblr #literature #library #old library #study #studyblr #english literature #books #university #old books #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #oxford university #university of oxford

[targuman]

Tobit in a Stained Glass Window

A picture of a window in the Duke Humfrey’s Library in the Bodleian Library. You can see the Radcliffe Camera and the University Church of St. Mary the Virgin in the background of the pane on the left. On the right, I do not know who the man is in the middle, but the rest of the image contains scenes from Tobit. I love this. At some point in the future, I would like to write something about how…

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#Oxford #Tobit

[une-sanz-pluis]

If Humfrey brought humanist books into England, Lydgate’s Fall of Princes adapted them to English circumstances by applying monastic protocols of literacy to secular subjects. The product of Lydgate’s close association  with his patron and his books, The Fall of Princes both reflects and reflects upon Humfrey’s own ambitions for his library. It also allows us to revise one prevailing assumption about Humfrey as an intellectually disengaged Maecenas who “preferred to look at rather than read his books.” To the contrary, The Fall of Princes suggests that not only was Humfrey intimately familiar with the contents of his books—enough so to hand-select those he pressed on Lydgate as sources—but he was also deeply concerned with the politics of reading. From this perspective, Duke Humfrey’s Library emerges as an institution whose founding purpose was not merely to accumulate books but actively to shape their uses and interpretations toward specific political goals—goals that took on topical urgency in 1431, the year Lydgate received his commission.

Jennifer Summit, Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England (University of Chicago Press, 2008)

#humphrey duke of gloucester #the fall of princes #john lydgate #patronage #historian: jennifer summit

[01libra]

DUKE HUMFREY’S LIBRARY | Old Bodleian, University of oxford, Hilary term 2023

#from the drafts.. MY BELOVED <3 #mine #the other day I was here and left in the middle of a tour group and #the tour guide pointed at me and said ‘and this is a student’ I was so embarassed 😭😭 #study space #library #oxford university #academia aesthetic #dark academia #booklr #studyspo

[vincentcatagainsttheworld]

#Repost Deborah Harkness FB page 📖A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES Real Time Read ch 1📖 A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES REAL TIME READ, Chapter One “I walked quickly through the original, fifteenth-century part of the library, past the rows of Elizabethan reading desks with their three ascending bookshelves and scarred writing surfaces. Between them, Gothic windows directed the reader’s attention up to the coffered ceilings, where bright paint and gilding picked out the details of the university’s crest of three crowns and open book and where its motto, “God is my illumination,” was proclaimed repeatedly from on high.” (A Discovery of Witches, Chapter One) In the introduction to THE WORLD OF ALL SOULS, Deb explains she wrote TWOAS in order to “[give] you a chance to have a good rummage through my inspiration archive. Though some of your questions will be answered, we hope that they are replaced with new insights and connections.” After reading Chapter One, I had a rummage through TWOAS–I hope you will, too!!--and here’s something from Deb for our first day of the Real Time Read: “As a research student at Oxford, I spent a lot of time in libraries—college libraries like All Souls, Merton, and Corpus Christi, the History Faculty Library, as well as most of the different reading rooms at the Bodleian. When I wasn’t in Duke Humfrey’s looking at rare books and manuscripts, my friends knew they could find me in the Bodleian’s Upper Reading Room surrounded by index cards and notes. The amazing architecture, the painted friezes along the walls, and the collection of portraits atop the bookcases provide plenty of inspiration for any historian—or novelist.” (p. 180, TWOAS) I love this reminder that Deb spent so much time in the Bodleian and it’s fun to imagine her friends coming to fetch her from there. How did it feel to open the pages of A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES, today and encounter Diana in the Bodleian with Ashmole 782 tucked under her chin? Who remembers what they were thinking the first time they read these early scenes in the book? Did you notice anything new on this re-read? What did you discover in your own rummage through TWOAS for Chapter One? Personal Note: It didn’t https://www.instagram.com/p/Cip6tmrMtZ8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#repost