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Hello Claws and fellow Library lovers! I am only slightly late this week. Thanks for understanding, I was away all weekend and then you always need to recover from those vacations!! So here we are at the Folger Shakespeare Library! Enjoy!



Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C., USA

"Home to the world’s largest and finest collection of Shakespeare materials and to major collections of other rare Renaissance books, manuscripts, and works of art, the Folger serves a wide audience of researchers, visitors, teachers, students, families, and theater- and concert-goers."

More information can be found here.

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Hello Library Lovers! It's time for another dose of Lucius Libraries!

This week's library is the Duke of Humphrey’s Library, Bodleian, Oxford University, England. I'm having trouble finding out too much information on this one, but as I like to leave you with a little something, I did find this website http://catholicoxford.blogspot.com/2006/06/duke-humphreys-library-and-bodleian.html. Which tells us "In 1444, it was decided to put a second storey on the Divinity School to accommodate a gift of books from Duke Humphrey of Gloucester.[1] The new floor was finished in 1470.

Through the passage at the east end of the school, we get into the Schools Quadrangle of the Bodleian Library. This great collection, which now contains five hundred thousand books and forty thousand manuscripts, was added to the existing library of Duke Humphrey by Sir Thomas Bodley[2] in 1602. There are extensive vaults beneath the build­ing, and an annexe was recently opened on the other side of Broad Street. Since 1610, the Bodleian has enjoyed the right of receiving a copy of every book published in the kingdom. (From Goulder, Pilgrimage Pamphlets: Oxford & Cambridge, 1963)"

This information does coincide with other writings I have found on the inernet, there just doesn't seem to be a whole lot written.

But without further ado...


Duke of Humphrey’s Library, Bodleian, Oxford University, England.

CandleLight Vigil

Please join us on Friday evening for a CandleLight Vigil in support of our wonderful House Cup, House Cuppers, and to honor those who have served and left us.

Refreshments will be provided by the Merry Beasts.