Research Catalog

Title

Marks of genius : masterpieces from the collections of the Bodleian Libraries / Stephen Hebron.

Author

Hebron, Stephen

Publication

• Oxford : Bodleian Library Publishing, 2014.
• ©2014

Supplementary Content

Table of contents

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bodleian Library, host institution.
• Pierpont Morgan Library, host institution.

Description

360 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits; 29 cm

Summary

Marks of Genius pays tribute to some of the most remarkable testaments to genius throughout human history, from ancient texts on papyrus and the extraordinary medieval manuscript The Douce Apocalypse to the renowned children's work The Wind in the Willows. Bringing together some of the rarest and most impressive treasures in the collections of the Bodleian Libraries, it tells the story of each work's creation and its journey through time, offering insight into the breadth and depth of its influence as well as and its power to fascinate.--From publisher's description.

Alternative Title

• Masterpieces from the collections of the Bodleian Libraries
• Bodleian Libraries

Subject

• Bodleian Libraries > Exhibitions
• Bodleian Libraries
• Genius > Exhibitions
• Scholars > Exhibitions
• Genius
• Scholars
• Handschrift
• Inkunabel
• Grafik
• Buch
• Bucheinband
• Druckwerk
• Autograf
• Handschrift
• Inkunabel
• Grafik
• Buch
• Bucheinband
• Druckwerk
• Autograf

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogues.
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York, June 6-September 14, 2014 and the Bodleian Library, Oxford, March 21-September 20, 2015.
• Collector’s edition colophon reads: This edition of Marks of Genius has been bound in Nigerian goatskin and faux vellum by the Fine Book Bindery, Finedon, Great Britain to a design by Dot Little at the Bodleian Library. It is limited to 350 individually numbered copies, with a further 20 presentation copies numbered i-xx which are not for sale.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-352) and index.

Exhibitions (note)

• Exhibited : "Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries," organized by the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2014-2015.

Contents

• Preface / Richard Ovenden -- Foreword / Toby Blackwell -- Blackwell's and the Bodleian / Reg Carr -- The genius of Sir Thomas Bodley : the Bodleian LIbrary / Richard Ovenden -- The charater of genius / Stephen Hebron -- Catalogue.
• Part 1. Marks of genius -- What is genius? -- Written in their own hands -- The most ingenious books -- Standing on the shoulders of giants -- The child of patronage.
• Part 2. Genius and learning -- Genius is from Heaven, learning from man -- Gathering in books -- Books of their owne stoare -- For the use and ease of students -- The gigantic genius of Shakespeare.

Call Number

JFF 18-1632

ISBN

• 9781851242665
• 185124266X
• 9781851244034
• 1851244034
• 9781851244416
• 1851244417

LCCN

• 9781851244034
• 9781851242665

OCLC

859446985

Author

Hebron, Stephen, author.

Title

Marks of genius : masterpieces from the collections of the Bodleian Libraries / Stephen Hebron.

Publisher

Oxford : Bodleian Library Publishing, 2014.

Copyright Date

©2014

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-352) and index.

Exhibitions

Exhibited : "Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries," organized by the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2014-2015.

Source

Gift; 2018.

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Table of contents

Added Author

Bodleian Library, host institution.

Pierpont Morgan Library, host institution.

Other Standard Identifier

9781851244034

9781851242665

Research Call Number

JFF 18-1632