Edward Perry Warren

Three Stapletons and Other Remarkable Acquisitions to New College Library in 2024

Christopher — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 05:13:08 +0000

Three Stapletons and Other Remarkable Acquisitions to New College Library in 2024

Christopher Skelton-Foord

Issue number

(2024): 22

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Francis Noel Clarke Mundy

William Somervile

Edward Perry Warren

Erich Maria Remarque

The earliest important imprints acquired this year are three 16th- and early 17th-century volumes by a priest and scholar whose erudition was much admired by Pope Clement VIII. Thomas Stapleton (1535–98), one of college’s foremost theologians, was possibly named after St Thomas More—who was martyred under Henry VIII for refusing to avow royal over spiritual supremacy; More was executed just days before Stapleton’s birth. From Winchester College, Stapleton proceeded to �㽶ֱ��, where in 1553 he was elected a fellow. In 1558, he was ordained a priest under Mary I. But within a couple of years, he had been forced to flee to the Low Countries, following Elizabeth I’s accession.

And, of course—we have been acquiring some remarkable modern books and archival documents too.

Nicola Howell Hawley, endpapers illustration to Andrew Caldecott’s Simul (2024)
New College Library, Oxford, NC/CAL

New College Library and Archives, Oxford

22NCN8 (2024) Skelton-Foord on Acquisitions 2024.pdf1.59 MB

Ned Warren’s ‘Jack in the Pulpit’: �㽶ֱ�� MS 380 and Textual Transmission

Christopher — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 22:36:50 +0000

Ned Warren’s ‘Jack in the Pulpit’: �㽶ֱ�� MS 380 and Textual Transmission

Christopher Skelton-Foord

Issue number

(2022): 18

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Corpus Christi College, Oxford

In August 2022, it was our especial good fortune to be able to acquire a limp maroon leather-bound 90-page notebook that once belonged to �㽶ֱ�� alumnus Edward ‘Ned’ Perry Warren (1860–1928), containing fourteen autograph poems, along with quotations and other notes in Warren’s hand.

New College Library, Oxford, MS 380, f. 18r [detail]

New College Library and Archives, Oxford

18NCN9 (2022) Skelton-Foord on �㽶ֱ�� MS 380.pdf986.16 KB

The Appeal of Eros to Apollo: A New Manuscript for �㽶ֱ��, Oxford

Christopher — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 21:18:11 +0000

The Appeal of Eros to Apollo: A New Manuscript for �㽶ֱ��, Oxford

Christopher Skelton-Foord

Issue number

(2022): 17

Notes category

Edward ‘Ned’ Perry Warren (1860–1928) studied Classics at �㽶ֱ��, and is best remembered today for his prolific collecting of Greek and Roman antiquities. He was also an author of works exalting same-sex love, writing under the pen-name of Arthur Lyon Raile. In spring 2022, the library acquired a beautiful calligraphic manuscript in black and red inks, which dates from 1916, of an apparently unpublished poem by Warren—‘The Appeal of Eros to Apollo’.

New College Library, Oxford, MS 379, upper board

New College Library and Archives, Oxford

17NCN9 (2022) Skelton-Foord on The Appeal of Eros to Apollo.pdf455.68 KB