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Full Description
This richly illustrated book features archival and architectural highlights spanning the 750-year life of Merton College. Following an introductory history, this collection of treasures comprises incisive text from members and friends of the College complemented by specially commissioned photography, to reveal the stories behind the formation and growth of the first fully self-governing Oxford college. Pieces demonstrating Merton's architectural and intellectual legacy - from the University's first quadrangle to the oldest continuously functioning library for academics and students in the world - sit side by side with those that explore the impact of the cultural and scholarly giants from its storied past, including William Harvey, the physician who first described pulmonary circulation of the blood, and the College's tradition of great mathematicians from the 14th century to the 21st, not to mention the work of T.S. Eliot and J.R.R. Tolkien.
Contents
Foreword - The Warden Introduction - Steven Gunn SECTION ONEMEDIEVAL MERTON The Founder's Statutes - Roger Highfield and Steven Gunn Hebrew Starrs - Peter E. Pormann Kibworth - Michael Wood The Early Warden's House - Robert Peberdy Manuscript of Aristotle's Metaphysics - Julia Walworth The Hall Door and Other Medieval Doorways - Alan Bott College Seals - Roger Highfield and Julian Reid The Treasury - Julian Reid The Medieval Stained Glass - Tim Ayers The Brasses in the Chapel - Alan Bott The Bursars' Rolls - Julian Reid The Astrolabes - Stephen Johnston Licence in Mortmain, 1380 - Julian Reid and Julia Walworth Catalogus Vetus - Michael Clanchy The Manor of Holywell - Robert Peberdy The Sculpture over the Gatehouse - Alan Bott SECTION TWO: MERTON MATURING Fifteenth-century Illuminated English Statutes - Jack Beatson The Fitzjames Arch - Steven Gunn The Lectern of 1504 - Alan Bott The Caxton Chaucer - Kate McClune Jerome's Translation of the Chronicle of Eusebius - David Ganz The Chapel Tennis Balls - Nicholas Richardson The Upper Library - Julia Walworth The Library Chests - Alan Bott The Bodley and Savile Monuments - Richard McCabe The Portal of St Alban Hall and the Frontispiece in Fellows' Quad - Alan Bott The Sundial in Front Quad - Yang-Hui He The College Silver - Pippa Shirley Theodore Goulston's Galeni Opera Omnia - Michael Dunnill The Wren Screen - Alan Bott and Roger Highfield The Senior Common Room Panelling - Matthew Jenkinson The Bells - Alan Bott The Mulberry Tree - Anthony Fletcher The Painted Glass of 1702 - Alan Bott The Globes - Sarah Bendall Joseph Kilner's Coin Collection - Ben Zurawel Lewis Vaslet Pastel Portraits - Beth Williamson Parker's of Oxford Sales Ledgers - Julian Reid SECTION THREE: MODERN MERTON The Kitchens - Alan Bott Rowlandson's Drawings of Merton - Susan Skedd The Shute Barrington Portrait - Matthew Grimley Russian Treasures - Mikhail Kizilov The Painted Ceiling of the Chapel - Alan Bott Holywell Meadow - Katherine J. Willis The Beerbohm Room - Stefano Evangelista A Chinese Incense Burner - Jessica Rawson The Letters of Kuruvila Zachariah - Philip Waller Edwardian Waistcoat of the Myrmidon Club - John Eidinow The T.S. Eliot Collection - Michael H. Whitworth The Sandy Irvine Archive - Julie Summers The War Memorial - Matthew Grimley E.S. Goodrich's Royal Society Medal - Peter Holland Presentation Copy of The Hobbit - John Carey The Head-of-the-River Bowl - Alan Bott and Michael Stansfield The Chapel Organ - Alan Bott and Benjamin Nicholas The Merton Choirbook - Benjamin Nicholas The T.S. Eliot Theatre and the Finlay Building - Jessica Rawson Sources and Further Reading List of Subscribers Index List of Contributors Reference list
