Collection

William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies is the 1623 published collection of William Shakespeare's plays. Modern scholars commonly refer to it as the First Folio. The Bodleian Library, received its copy in early 1624.






I have spent more than a short amount of time looking at and using various web 2.0 formats. My choice for best web 2.0 is youtube for the simplest reason - it is with the greatest satisfaction that I have found the following links.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNUuiVXYpQw

The following two medieval videos are accompanied by some very beautiful haunting music.
They are quiet large so I have only uploaded 'Manuscritos iluminados'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SADKPZkdl3o

Thomas Bodley implemented the creation of a "Benefactors' Book" in 1602, which was bound and put on display in the library in 1604. While he did have funding through the wealth of his wife, Ann Ball, and the inheritance he received from his father, he still needed to have the gifts of his affluent friends and colleagues to build his library collection. Thomas Bodley recognized the advantages of a donor register in which those who donated books would have their name for everyone to see their contributions. He created a handsome Register of Donations, in vellum, in which the name of every benefactor should be written down ‘in a large and fair hand so all might read.’He kept the Register prominently displayed so that no visitor to the library could escape seeing the generosity of the benefactors. The register was successful.. Thomas Bodley found that 'every man bethinks himself how by some good book or other he may be written in the scroll of the benefactors.'