Early Bodleian Donations Online

The dataset contains information regarding donations of books, manuscripts, and money made to the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford in the period 1600–1620. The data are biographical (for donors), bibliographical and codicological (for books and manuscripts), financial (for monetary donations), and for a subset of books copy-specific material descriptions. The dataset was primarily based on the records of the Bodleian Library, including the Donors' Register (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodleian MS Library Records b.903), and the historic collections of the Library. We are grateful to the Bodleian Library for their support throughout this project. The research was funded by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UKRI.Early Bodleian Donations Online (EBDO) is a digital resource based on research undertaken by UCL’s Centre for Editing Lives and Letters during the project “Shaping Scholarship: Early Donations to the Bodleian Library”. Our focus is on the first two decades following its seventeenth-century refurbishment by Sir Thomas Bodley (c.1600-1620), and the study examines the shape of the collection of the books donated and purchased with funds, the social backgrounds of the c.220 donors, and how these men and women were connected across the social compass of the time.The project is multidisciplinary, drawing on the fields of literary studies, network analysis, political, economic, social and intellectual history, library and information studies and more. Using the overlooked and under-used records of one of the United Kingdom’s principal research libraries, we will explore the relationships between people, things and places, giving a broader sense of philanthropy, book-ownership, and social connectedness in Jacobean England. While many of the donors are well-known historical figures, a greater number have been omitted from the conventionally rehearsed narrative, and these include scholars, merchants, soldiers, women and diplomats. <br>

数据集包含1600–1620年间牛津大学博德利图书馆收到的书籍、手稿及资金捐赠相关信息。数据涵盖捐赠者的传记信息、书籍与手稿的书目学（bibliographical）及抄本学（codicological）信息、资金捐赠的财务信息，以及部分书籍的特定版本材料描述。数据集主要基于博德利图书馆的记录（包括捐赠者登记簿：牛津，博德利图书馆，博德利MS图书馆档案b.903）及该馆的历史馆藏。我们感谢博德利图书馆在整个项目期间给予的支持。本研究由英国研究与创新署（UKRI）下属艺术与人文研究委员会资助。
“早期博德利捐赠在线（Early Bodleian Donations Online，EBDO）”是基于伦敦大学学院（UCL）生活与书信编辑中心在“塑造学术：博德利图书馆早期捐赠”项目中开展的研究构建的数字资源。我们的研究聚焦于托马斯·博德利爵士于17世纪对图书馆进行翻新后的最初二十年（约1600–1620年），考察了捐赠及以资金购置的藏书结构、约220位捐赠者的社会背景，以及这些人士在当时社会格局中的关联。
该项目具有跨学科属性，涉及文学研究、网络分析、政治史、经济史、社会史、知识史、图书馆与信息研究等领域。通过利用英国主要研究图书馆中被忽视或未充分利用的记录，我们将探索人与物、人与地之间的关系，以更全面地呈现雅各宾时期英格兰的慈善活动、书籍所有权及社会联系。尽管许多捐赠者为知名历史人物，但更多人被排除在传统叙事之外，其中包括学者、商人、士兵、女性及外交官。