Bobart, J., 115.
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 8, 296, 330.
Bodleian Library, see 'Stationers' Company;'
central room built to receive Duke Humphrey's books, 7;
destruction of his library, 11-12;
re-foundation by Bodley, 14;
roof, 14-15;
register of benefactors, 16;
opened, 24;
styled the Bodleian by letters patent, 25;
eastern wing built, 29;
great window, _ib._;
endowments, 32;
western wing built, 60;
statute 1813, 218;
new statutes 1856, 284;
first catalogue 1605, 207;
second 1620, 46, 91;
appendix 1635, 60;
prices of these catalogues, 60;
third 1674, 97, 156-7;
Hearne's Appendix, 123;
fourth 1738, 156;
fifth 1843, 268;
new catalogue now in progress, 291;
Uri's catalogue of Oriental MSS., 199;
catalogues
of pictures, 189;
of early printed books 1795, 203;
number
of books 1620, 46-7;
of MSS. 1690, 110;
of printed books and MSS.
1714, 137;
1849, 274;
1867, 305;
remonstrance from foreign readers against an order of the Curators, 68;
loan to Charles I, 37, 69;
supposed attempt to burn the library, 70;
attendance of readers
in 1648-9, 75;
in 1730-40, 152;
duplicates exchanged with Queen's College, 115;
sales of duplicates, 160, 201, 297, 298;
western end re-floored, 191;
annual payment from graduates, 195;
books not allowed to be borrowed, 50, 82 _n._;
borrowing allowed
by Lord Pembroke and Sir T. Roe, 51;
by Sir K. Digby, 59;
loan of books refused
to Bp. Williams, 50;
to Charles I, 72;
to Cromwell, 76;
to the translators of the Bible, 82 _n._;
to Archbp. Laud, _ib._;
granted by special grace, from some collections, to Selden, 79;
MSS. lent
to Marshall, 100;
to the French government by Convocation, 295;
removal of books forbidden 1686, 109;
books returned--
to Univ. Libr., Cambr., 154;
to Emman. Coll., Cambr., 159;
to Magd. and Univ. Coll., Oxf., 215;
to Durham, 216;
to two parishes, 234;
books stolen, 74, 80 _n._, 81, 103 _n._;
denunciation of a thief by the Curators, 80 _n._;
books restored, 81, 82, 103 _n._;
chains for books, 86;
pamphlets, 66, 194, 202, 290;
dispute between the Hebdomadal Board and the Curators, 198;
poem on the Library, 196;
returns to House of Commons, 227, 273, 274;
Greek text affixed to the door, 209;
coldness in winter formerly, 98;
warming apparatus, 234-5;
the Radcliffe building assigned as a reading-room, 293, 295;
visited
by James I, 26, 41,
by Charles I, 55, 70,
by Charles II, 92,
by James II, 109,
by George III, 197,
by her present Majesty, 319;
American visitor's account cited, 134 _n._;
order in 1722 against admission of readers at unstatutable times, 74;
Anatomy Sch., 132, 134, 136, 140;
assigned to the Library, 200;
heads formerly on the wall of Picture Gallery, 138;
the clock, 182 _n._;
librarians' celibacy, 21;
stipends of officers in 1655-7, 87;
stipends of Sub-librarians, 260;
in 1856, 284;
list of officers, 341-343;
rules, 344.
Bodley, Gerard, 160.
BODLEY, Sir Thomas; early career, 12-13;
begins to restore the Library, 14;
his motto, 15;
bust, 26;
desires the Catalogue to be dedicated to the Prince of Wales, 27;
builds eastern wing, 29;
said to have given plate to the Stationers' Company on their agreement
with him, 32;
endows the Library, 32;
forbad the borrowing of books, 82 _n._;
his bell, 33;
his chest, _ib._;
death, 37;
charged with neglect of his relatives, 38;
petition from his grand-nephew and niece, 39;
portrait, 336;
portrait on glass at Oriel Coll., 45 _n._;
annual Bodley speech, 105;
_Reliquiæ Bodleianæ_ cited, 14, 16, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 31, 33, 40,
42, 88;
mentioned, 138;
books with his autograph, 32, 296;
_Justa Funebria Bodlei_ cited, 26, 37;
_Bodleiomnema_, 37.
Bodley, Capt. Sir Josias, 13 _n._;
donor, 21.