The “miracle drug” penicillin was first administered in Oxford in February 1941, leading to a full-blown transformation in the way bacterial infection was diagnosed and treated. What was to become one of the greatest stories of the “golden age of medical discovery” not only had its roots in Oxford, but was the latest in a line of pivotal medical discoveries made in the city.            Great Medical Discoveries offers a short illustrated history of the city’s contribution to the medical sciences, from the medieval period to the present day, when it is home to some of the world’s leading large scientific institutions. In charting this remarkable history, the book showcases twenty discoveries across the centuries. In the mid-twentieth century, for instance, Oxford led the field of experimental medicine, and William Harvey, Thomas Willis, and Thomas Sydenham all gained eponymous status with their pioneering research into the workings of the human body. In the mid-seventeenth century, Dorothy Hodgkin’s development of x-ray crystallography earned her a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Meanwhile, the work of epidemiologist Richard Doll saved millions of lives by making clear the long-term dangers of smoking and the benefits of quitting.            Great Medical Discoveries traces these and other examples of groundbreaking research―from the scientific application of anesthetics to new treatments for hemophilia and life-saving advances in neurosurgery―and shows how they form part of a wider tapestry of work that has helped shape the medical sciences and improve human health.

Great Medical Discoveries: An Oxford Story

Medical Books

Keating, Conrad

History

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

For centuries the Gough Map has amazed observers with its remarkable detail and baffled historians with its hidden secrets: who made it and why was it made? This gorgeously illustrated volume offers possible answers to these questions with a detailed examination of the map that employs the latest in technology, cartographic theories, and historical research. Recent digitization of the Gough Map has made it more legible than at any other time since its arrival at the Bodleian Library in 1809. This work utilizes new georectification technology to project a modern map of Britain over the Gough Map, revealing the incredible accuracy of the 700-year-old manuscript. In stunningly detailed reproduction, The Gough Map charts a vast array of cities, routes, and landmarks, including the principal medieval settlements of Bristol, Oxford and Norwich; the Severn, Thames, and Humber rivers; the loop of the Wear at Durham; and routes between towns with distances marked in Roman numerals. The volume also features a color fold-out print of the Gough map, as well as numerous close-up images of each area. The Gough Map offers an unparalleled opportunity to examine this fascinating example of medieval mapmaking.

The Gough Map: The Earliest Road Map of Great Britain

Science & Math

Millea, Nick

Earth Sciences

For centuries the Gough Map has amazed observers with its remarkable detail and baffled historians with its hidden secrets: who made it and why was it made? This gorgeously illustrated volume offers possible answers to these questions with a detailed examination of the map that employs the latest in technology, cartographic theories, and historical research. Recent digitization of the Gough Map has made it more legible than at any other time since its arrival at the Bodleian Library in 1809. This work utilizes new georectification technology to project a modern map of Britain over the Gough Map, revealing the incredible accuracy of the 700-year-old manuscript. In stunningly detailed reproduction, The Gough Map charts a vast array of cities, routes, and landmarks, including the principal medieval settlements of Bristol, Oxford and Norwich; the Severn, Thames, and Humber rivers; the loop of the Wear at Durham; and routes between towns with distances marked in Roman numerals. The volume also features a color fold-out print of the Gough map, as well as numerous close-up images of each area. The Gough Map offers an unparalleled opportunity to examine this fascinating example of medieval mapmaking.

Travel

Originally written to accompany a 1994 Bodleian Library exhibition, this is a beautifully-illustrated and elegantly written testament to the cross-fertilization of European culture and tradition in the Middle Ages and early Modern period. The manuscripts and books presented here—including Ptolemy's "Cosmographia" and a Pilgrim's guide to the Holy Land—reveal the lively "trafficking of ideas" across the Continent.

A Continental Shelf: Books across Europe from Ptolemy to Don Quixote

Biographies & Memoirs

When American troops arrived in Paris at the end of World War II, they were at first welcomed by the local population. However, the French soon began to resent the Americans for their brashness and display of wealth, while the Americans found the French and their habits equally irritating and incomprehensible: they bathed too little, drank too much, and were almost unfailingly unfriendly. To bridge the cultural divide, the War Department commissioned humorist Leo Rosten to write this surprisingly candid guide that paired common complaints about the French with answers aimed at promoting understanding. From the fascinations of French nightlife to Gallic grooming and fashions, the guide sought to correct the misconceptions behind a litany of common complaints: Laissez-faire is not in fact a call to laziness, and the French do not play checkers in cafés all day—though they do extol the virtues of a leisurely lunch. The moral principles of the Frenchwoman ought not to be drawn from the few one might find loitering on the fringes of the camp. Beyond their intended instructive purposes, the grievances included in the guide are at times as revealing of the preconceptions of the American servicemen as they are of the French, as well as offering fascinating insight into the details of daily life immediately after the war, including the acute poverty, the shortage of food and supplies, and the scale of destruction suffered by France during the six years of conflict. Illustrated throughout with charming cartoons and written in a direct, no-nonsense style, 112 Gripes about the French is by turns amusing and thought-provoking in its valiant stand against prejudice and stereotype.

112 Gripes about the French: The 1945 Handbook for American GIs in Occupied France

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

How are maps designed and why are they made? Using maps from across the centuries and around the world, Millea gives readers the history of urban cartography using magnificent examples from the Bodleian Library's extensive map collections. From Ralph Agas's famous sixteenth-century map of Oxford to a Soviet Cold War-era map showing key installations throughout the city, the impact of purpose and function on mapping is vividly illustrated. Also included is the 1883 "Drink Map of Oxford" published by the Temperance Union, which draws attention to the fact that "every twenty-second house in Oxford is a drink-shop," and marks these with a proliferation of red dots—a perfect guide for a pub crawl. This is an important work for students and collectors, as well as map enthusiasts or anyone with an interest in cities and their design.

Street Mapping: An A to Z of Urban Cartography

This catalog describes 24 manuscripts from the Collection of Thomas Ryburn Buchanan presented to the Bodleian in 1939 and 1941. The collection consists primarily of late Medieval devotional books from France, the Netherlands, and Renaissance Italy. It includes Books of Hours, a Bridgettine Breviary, a Milanese Breviary, a ferial Psalter, a Psalter from around 1300, and three Italian humanistic texts. The catalog gives detailed descriptions of the texts, illumination, and codicological characteristics of each manuscript.

Medieval Manuscripts from the Collection of T. R. Buchanan in the Bodleian Library, Oxford

Arts & Photography

P. Kidd

History & Criticism

The John Johnson Collection at the Bodleian Library is one of the world's most important collections of printed ephemera. This exhibition catalog focuses on just one of the many subject areas of the Collection—trades and shops. Richly illustrated with trade cards, bill headings, prints, and games—many of which have not been previously reproduced—these miniature works of art depict shops, products, tradesmen, and trades through the ages, giving us fascinating insights into the wealth of goods available and the people who bought and sold them.

A Nation of Shopkeepers: Trade Ephemera from 1654 to the 1860s in the John Johnson Collection

Lambert, Julie Anne

Europe

This catalog presents detailed descriptions of 19 Greek manuscripts acquired individually by the Bodleian during the twentieth century, and not previously described in any official Bodleian catalog. The manuscripts vary widely in date and subject-matter. They include new discoveries, such as unpublished passages in a new manuscript of Philippos Monotropos's Dioptra and the Greek translation of three prayers composed of quotations from St. Augustine's Confessions.

A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts acquired by the Bodleian Library Since 1916 (Lup - Poetry and)

Lapin, Barbara Crostini

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Mother Goose's Melody

Children's Books

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Great Medical Discoveries: An Oxford Story

The Gough Map: The Earliest Road Map of Great Britain

The Gough Map: The Earliest Road Map of Great Britain

A Continental Shelf: Books across Europe from Ptolemy to Don Quixote

112 Gripes about the French: The 1945 Handbook for American GIs in Occupied France

Street Mapping: An A to Z of Urban Cartography

Medieval Manuscripts from the Collection of T. R. Buchanan in the Bodleian Library, Oxford

A Nation of Shopkeepers: Trade Ephemera from 1654 to the 1860s in the John Johnson Collection

A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts acquired by the Bodleian Library Since 1916 (Lup - Poetry and)

Mother Goose's Melody