Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . al room ; while the Archaeo-logical department has been enriched by the gift of Mr. C. D. E. Fortnumspriceless collection, which includes Italian bronzes, reliefs, majolica ware, andother objects. Woods Study has been restored and fitted up as a library,and here are preserved in portfolios the historical photographs of Egypt, Greece,Palestine, and Rome, with a large number of drawings and plans of AncientRome, the Catacombs, ere, collected by Mr. J. H. Parker, , late Keeperof the Ashmolean. In a strong room is a
Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . al room ; while the Archaeo-logical department has been enriched by the gift of Mr. C. D. E. Fortnumspriceless collection, which includes Italian bronzes, reliefs, majolica ware, andother objects. Woods Study has been restored and fitted up as a library,and here are preserved in portfolios the historical photographs of Egypt, Greece,Palestine, and Rome, with a large number of drawings and plans of AncientRome, the Catacombs, ere, collected by Mr. J. H. Parker, , late Keeperof the Ashmolean. In a strong room is a choice collection of gems, cameos, & the year 18S9, nearly 2,000 separate objects have been acquired by giftor purchase, including Mr. Greville Chesters collection of Phcenician, Hittite,and other oriental antiquities ; also several valuable Egyptian relics, amongthem a remarkable Portrait Mummy. In the basement are a number of modelsand casts of mediaeval architecture, the property of the Oxford Architecturaland Historical Society, together with their GUY FAWKES to our right, we approach 3. The Divinity School, 1445-80 (open 9 to 5, fee id.)This beautiful room has long been used, as its name implies, forexercises for the University degrees in Divinity. Passing throughthe Proscholium (popularly called the Pig-market—a survivalof the base uses to which it was degraded in the latter part ofHenry reign), we enter by a finely moulded Perpendiculardoorway a noble room with arched stone roof, elaborately groinedin every bay, and adorned with bosses rendered extremely in-teresting by their carved work, forming heraldic bearings, and a 8 Aldens Oxford Guide.
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