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Alison also has this design inspired by the Ripley Scroll - an extraordinary manuscript, almost six metres long, that gives the recipe for the fabled Philosopher's Stone. Ideal for any immortal-in-the-making.
The earliest evidence of the Phi collection - items to be hidden from public view - is found in the minutes of a meeting of the Curators of the Bodleian, 1882.
The Conservation & Collection Care team delivered our first online training sessions to the Weston Library reading room staff, giving them handling advice for scanning Special Collections. 
Kirstin has been working closely with our longest serving member of the book team, Andrew Dawson, who started at the Bodleian age 16! 
Viewing a manuscript through a microscope can reveal artists techniques and the condition of the painted media. 
It’s not Conservation tea time; this tin is full of negatives waiting to be rehoused. 
The Library has officially employed conservators since 1965, although repairs & maintenance of books have taken place pretty much since the founding of the Library (more on this later…). 
Die Weiße Rose was a resistance group, which in the early 1940s printed and distributed six leaflets calling for resistance to Nazism and an end to the Second World War.
We first got our mitts on this copy in 1623 – seven years after the world became bereft of the be-ruffed bard. 
The first of the scenes depicted around the border, in the top left corner, is a carving of Isaiah. He holds a scroll that bears prophecy of Christ, some 700 years before his birth. 
يKitāb Gharāʾib al-funūn wa-mulaḥ al-ʿuyūn, or The Book of Curiosities, now resides at the @bodleianlibs. This book's existence, much less it contents, were unknown to us until this manuscript copy resurfaced in 2000. 
(The poem weaves many allegories together, including praise for the Tudors and Elizabeth I. Maybe this casts some light on the generous pension.)