Bodleian
Americannoun
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of Bodleian
After Sir Thomas Bodley; see -an
Example Sentences
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It represents just a fraction of the Le Carré archive held at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, of which the Weston is a part, a collection comprising 1,237 boxes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026
The Trustees of the Wilson Archive had found anonymous donors, who would fund the Bodleian Library in Oxford buying the papers.
From BBC • Jul. 22, 2024
The poem had been kept in a shoe box before the Chandler family donated it, along with other papers, to the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford in the 1980s.
From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2023
Strand editor-in-chief Andrew Gulli says he found the poem in a shoe box at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library.
From Washington Times • Dec. 11, 2023
Once she’d found half a dozen, she went to Harry Dibdin at the Bodleian Library with another cataloging query.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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