Scholar Collection (#46)

Thomas Bodley (1545-1613) English scholar and diplomat, founder of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Engraving

Aztec Codex Aubin (bought in 1841 by French scholar Aubin) Folio 16. Manuscript on agave paper

Argonauts finding the Golden Fleece, a fleece placed in a spring by the Colchians to collect alluvial gold dust. From Agricola De re metallica, Basle, 1556. Woodcut

Anthony Panizzi (1797-1879) Italian bibliographer. Fled the 1821 revolution in Italy. Became Chief Librarian at British Museum (1856-1866). Designed the Reading Room

Henry George Liddell (1811-91) British scholar, Dean of Christchurch, Oxford. Father of the Alice, immortalised in Alice in Wonderland

Desiderus Erasmus (1467-1536) Dutch humanist and scholar (1523). Portrait by Hans Holbein the the Younger (1497-1543). Louvre, Paris

Venerable Bede (c. 673-735) Anglo-Saxon theologian, scholar and historian: monk at Jarrow
Venerable Bede (c.673-735) Anglo-Saxon theologian, scholar and historian: monk at Jarrow, Northumberland, holding open a book

William Edward Dubois (1868-1963) African American scholar, writer and civil rights activist

Mrs Sophia Bryant (born Willoch - 1850-1922) English mathematical scholar and teacher. In 1875 she joined the staff of the North London Collegiate School for Girls

Mrs Sophia Bryant (born Willock - 1850-1922) English mathematical scholar and teacher. In 1875 she joined the staff of the North London Collegiate School for Girls

David Welsh (1793-1845) Scottish scholar and divine. Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1843. Professor of Church History at Edinburgh University

Elizabeth Smith (1776-1806) English oriental scholar born near Durham. Stipple engraving

Thomas Gray (1716-1771) English poet and classical scholar. Engraving, London, 1837

Wolfgang Musculus (Musslin or Meusslin) 1497-1563. German scholar and leader of Protestant Reformation. Professor of theology at Berne, Switzerland. Engraving

James Henry Monk (1784-1836) English cleric and classical scholar. Bishop of Gloucester 1830 and of Gloucester and Bristol on the amalgamation of the Sees in 1836. Engraving after portrait my J Moore

John Stuart Blackie (1809-1905) Scottish classicist and man of letters, born in Glasgow. Professor of Greek at Edinburgh University 1852-1882

John Justus Scaliger (1540-1609) French religious leader, scholar and classicist, born at Agen. He became a Calvinist (Protestant) while in Paris in 1562

Richard Bentley (1662-142) English classical scholar and philologist. Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. Lampooned by Jonathan Swift in The Battle of the Books (1704)

Jan Gruter (Gruytere, Gruterus) (1560-1627). Belgian-born classical scholar. Held various professorships including at Wittenberg and Heidelberg universities. Mezzotint

Desiderius Erasmus
Germany: 1523 An intaglio-gravure by Hans Holbein of Desiderius Erasmus, the Dutch Renaissamce humanist, also known as Erasmus of Rotterdam

Adiller, A Dollar, A Ten O clock Scholar, What Makes You Come So Soon ja Nursery Rhymes And Nursery Riddles, Engraving 1882

Desiderus Erasmus (1465-1536) Dutch humanist and scholar, using writing slope. Engraving after Durer

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FRANCIS CHAMPOLLION. Jean-Francois Champollion, 1790-1832. French scholar, philologist, orientalist, Egypt, engraving 1879

Pierre Bayle (1647 - 1706) French philosopher, skeptic and writer. engraving from " Histoire des Philosophes Modernes" by Alexandre Saverien (Paris, 1762)

George Buchanan (1506 - 1582) Scottish humanist, historian and scholar. Tutor to Mary Queen of Scots (1562) and in 1567 to her son James VI. Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland (1571 - 1583)

George Buchanan (1506 - 1582) Scottish humanist, historian and scholar. Tutor to Mary Queen of Scots (1562) and in 1567 to her son James VI. Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland (1571 - 1583)

Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731), pioneer of anatomical preservation of human organs, engraving
Physicians and scholars: Netherlands - 17th-18th century. Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731), physician and anatomist, pioneer of anatomical preservation of human organs. Engraving

Thomas Willis (1621-1672), physician and anatomist, XIX century, engraving
Physicians and scholars: Great Britain - XVII century. Thomas Willis (1621-1672), physician and anatomist. XIX century, engraving

Italian poetry frontispiece, 18th century
Italian poetry frontispiece. 18th-century frontispiece artwork for a book of Italian poetry. The scene shows a goddess-like muse figure advising a seated scholar or poet in front of a monkey using a

Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch scholar C016 / 8867
Rodolphus Agricola (1443-1485), Dutch humanist scholar. Born Roelof Huusman near Groningen, he was educated there and at Louvain

Jesuit missions to China, 17th century C016 / 8929
Jesuit missions to China. 17th-century artwork showing Jesuit scholars that carried out missionary work in China. The founders of the Society of Jesus were Francis Xavier (upper left)

Heinrich Barth, German explorer C018 / 7044
Heinrich Barth (1821-1865). 1869 engraving of the German explorer, archaeologist, philologist and geographer Heinrich Barth

Prokop Divis, Czech scientist C018 / 7038
Prokop Divis. 1869 engraving of the Czech priest, scholar, theologian and natural scientist Dom Prokop Divis, O.Praem. Divis, born Vaclav Divisek

Alchemist at work, 19th century
Alchemist at work. 19th-century artwork of an alchemist writing at a desk in a cluttered room which includes chemical equipment (lower centre)

Public reading room, 17th century C015 / 6072
Public reading room in 1616. 19th-century artwork of a reading room in London, England, during the Jacobean era (the reign of King James I)

Roman library, Late Roman Empire C015 / 6073
Roman library. 19th-century artwork of a library of the Late Roman Empire, after Garruca. This period in the history of the Roman Empire lasted from around 250-450 AD

British Museum library, 19th century C015 / 6071
British Museum library. 19th-century artwork of people consulting books in the reading room at the British Museum, London, UK

Plato, Ancient Greek philosopher C015 / 5781
Plato (c.428 BC-c.347 BC), Ancient Greek philosopher. Platos spirit of rational inquiry led to todays scientific method. His writings shaped

University library, 18th-century C017 / 8004
University library. 18th-century artwork of a university library in Germany. This engraving is from Corpus historiae Germanicae (1730)

Francois Rabelais, French satirist C017 / 7992
Francois Rabelais (c.1494-1553), French satirist. Rabelais started out as a Franciscan monk, and later became an ordained priest

William Camden, English antiquarian C017 / 7988
William Camden (1551-1623), English antiquarian, historian and pioneer of archaeology. Camdens surveys of Roman and prehistoric sites in England, including the first study of Stonehenge

Pietro Bembo, Italian scholar
Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), Italian scholar, poet and cardinal. Bembos most influential work was Prose della volgar lingua (1525) on how to write poetry in Italian (reviving interest in Petrarch)

BUDE, Guillaume (1467-1540). French humanist, Hellenist scholar and diplomat. Comentarii Linguae Graecae (Basilea, 1530). Title page

MORENO NIETO, Jos頨1825-1882). Spanish liberal
MORENO NIETO, Jos頨 1825-1882). Spanish liberal politician and law scholar. Litography. SPAIN. Madrid. National Library

Niccolo Machiavelli
Italian writer, thinker and politician, Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527). Anonymous portrait. Oil on canvas

Vincent De Beauvais
VINCENT DE BEAUVAIS French churchman and scholar, depicted reading to Louis IX in the Sainte-Chapelle, Paris Date: 1190 - 1264

Young scholar with a slate
From Nisters Holiday Annual 1891 Date: 1891

Tales from Many Lands: Abdulluh, the Wise One. From Treasure no. 259 (30 December 1967)

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