A New Pocket Companion for Oxford, Or Guide Through the University: With an Historical Account of the Foundation of the Several Colleges and Their Present State. To which are Added Descriptions of the Buildings, Tapestry, Etc. at Blenkeim and NunehamJ. Cooke, 1810 |
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... DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH , AND EARL HARCOURT . A NEW EDITION , Corrected , much enlarged , and adorned with a Plan of the University and City , and Eight other Plates . OXFORD : Printed for J. CoOKE , near the Clarendon Printing - Houfe ...
... DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH , AND EARL HARCOURT . A NEW EDITION , Corrected , much enlarged , and adorned with a Plan of the University and City , and Eight other Plates . OXFORD : Printed for J. CoOKE , near the Clarendon Printing - Houfe ...
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... Duke of Marlborough , near Woodstock 129 Bodleian Library IO Botanic or Phyfic Garden 30 Brafen - Nofe College 57 Chancellors , Vice - Chancellors , & c . Lift of 124 Chrift - Church , Cathedral , and College тоб Hall 107 Clarendon ...
... Duke of Marlborough , near Woodstock 129 Bodleian Library IO Botanic or Phyfic Garden 30 Brafen - Nofe College 57 Chancellors , Vice - Chancellors , & c . Lift of 124 Chrift - Church , Cathedral , and College тоб Hall 107 Clarendon ...
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... Duke of Beaufort , were at the expence of new wainscotting the Gallery , since which the Pictures have been cleaned and repaired , more advantageously disposed , and their number greatly increased by late Benefac tors . The UNIVERSITY ...
... Duke of Beaufort , were at the expence of new wainscotting the Gallery , since which the Pictures have been cleaned and repaired , more advantageously disposed , and their number greatly increased by late Benefac tors . The UNIVERSITY ...
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... Duke erected the Library , which he furnished with many choice volumes procured from Italy in the years 1440 and 1443 , besides considerable addi- tions bequeathed at his death three years after . In the year 1597 Sir Thomas Bodley ...
... Duke erected the Library , which he furnished with many choice volumes procured from Italy in the years 1440 and 1443 , besides considerable addi- tions bequeathed at his death three years after . In the year 1597 Sir Thomas Bodley ...
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... Duke of Ormond . Its roof has been ad- mired as a chef - d'œuvre of Carpentry , being continued to a great breadth , by a very ingeni- ous truss of timber - work , sustained only by the side walls , without intermediate support , its ex ...
... Duke of Ormond . Its roof has been ad- mired as a chef - d'œuvre of Carpentry , being continued to a great breadth , by a very ingeni- ous truss of timber - work , sustained only by the side walls , without intermediate support , its ex ...
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ante-chapel Archbishop arched beautiful benefactors Bishop Bishop of Lincoln Bishop of Winchester building built Bust centre Chancellor Chapel Charles chimney Christ Church cloister collection Common Room consists contains Corpus Christi College court curious D. D. Late daughter Dean Ditto door Duchess Duke of Marlborough east Edward elegant entrance erected Exeter College feet in length Fellows figures Founder front gallery Garden gate gateway Gothic Hall handsome head Henry High-street Holy Family inches high Ionic order James John Duke King Kneller Lady Landscape Late and preſent lege Library Lord Magdalen Magdalen College marble Mary Master ment Merton College north side opposite Oriel College ornamented Oxford painted picture piece portraits present Principal Profeffor Provost quadrangle Queen Rector roof Rubens Saviour Scholars Simon Sir Nathaniel Lloyd Sir William Society spacious statue Thomas Titian tower University Vandyck Visitor wainscot window
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