. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . n 1872 by Sir G. G. Scott, the original oak door with iron hinge-mountings {circa 1320) being retained. On the walls are portraits of the Founder, Duns Scotus, Bishop Jewell,Dr. Harvey, and other celebrities ; the chief figure over the high table beingthe present Warden, the Hon. G. C. Brodrick, by R. W. Macbeth. Leaving the First Quadrangle through a low archway W. of theHall, we pass to our right, under an ancient Muniment-roomor Treasury oi the 13th cent., with quaint high-pitched roof ofstone, into
. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . n 1872 by Sir G. G. Scott, the original oak door with iron hinge-mountings {circa 1320) being retained. On the walls are portraits of the Founder, Duns Scotus, Bishop Jewell,Dr. Harvey, and other celebrities ; the chief figure over the high table beingthe present Warden, the Hon. G. C. Brodrick, by R. W. Macbeth. Leaving the First Quadrangle through a low archway W. of theHall, we pass to our right, under an ancient Muniment-roomor Treasury oi the 13th cent., with quaint high-pitched roof ofstone, into the Mob Quadrangle^ containing on its S. side thevenerable Library, certainly one of the most ancient in thekingdom : its narrow lancet-shaped windows with trefoil headsindicating its antiquity. It was built, or adapted from an olderstructure, in 1349 by William Rede, Bp. of Chichester, but thedormer windows in the roof were added some centuries later inthe reign of James I, when the interior was fitted up as it now re-mains, an interesting specimen of an old English < -1 I- == < ^ Q ^ O h Merton College. 63 Beyond another stone-groined archway at the angle of the LibraryOuaJrangle, and in glaring contrast with these venerable monastic relics, is anew building erected in 1864 for the accommodation of additional students. Retracing our steps to the First Quad., we pass E. of the Hall,into the Fellows Qiuuifangle, 1610, under a wide-spanned archAvith remarkable vaulted roof, having among its bosses the arms?of Henry \ll, surrounded by the signs of the zodiac. Oppositeus is an imitation of the Schools Tower (5), minus the first orTuscan stage ; probably by the same architect, Thomas Hole {) and beyond this is a Garden and tQ^race-walk on a portionof the old city wall, which affords a most delightful prospect,from Magdalen Tower (17) on the left to Christ Church (29;on the right. Dr. Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation ofthe blood, was
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