Bulkeley Bandinel

Bulkeley Bandinel

Bulkeley Bandinel (born February 21, 1781 in Oxford , † February 6, 1861 ibid) was a British librarian and from 1813 to 1860 Bodley's Librarian . He was descended from Italian immigrants who settled in Jersey in the early 17th century .

Life

Bulkeley Bandinel was the third child of James Bandinel, a member of Jesus College (Oxford) , and his wife Margaret. Young Bulkeley's godfather was John Price , also a member of Jesus College and his predecessor as Bodley's Librarian.

In 1815, Bandinel married Mary Phillips and the couple remained childless.

Theological training and activity

Bandinel trained at Winchester College , a prestigious English boarding school, and then began studying at New College (Oxford) . Both school and college have the Manners Makyth Man slogan (Behavior makes the man).

In 1805, Bandinel obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree and was ordained. After graduating with a Master of Arts degree in 1807, Bandinel served in 1808 as an Anglican chaplain in the Royal Navy for one year . Around this time Bandinel received the parish of Haughton-le-Skerne and became curate of Wytham, Berkshire .

Worked at the Bodleian Library

On the initiative of his godfather, Bandinel was appointed assistant librarian of the Bodleian Library in 1810 and in this capacity he compiled the catalog of the Richard Gough collection (antiquarian) . When Price passed away three years later, Bandinel was chosen unrivaled as the new Bodley's Librarian . Within four months, Bandinel increased the staff by several people, extended the opening times of the library and increased the salaries of the employees.

A new catalog for the prints of the Bodleian Library was also created under Bandinel's direction, since the current catalog was already 31 years old and contained some incorrect information. The catalog was not published, however, as Lord Grenville's application for financial support from the civil list had been rejected. In 1837, Bandinel himself asked to be allowed to hire new workers, and subsequently received three additional assistants, with whose help the catalog was completed and published in 1843.

When the Copyright Act was passed in 1814 , under which the so-called copyright libraries were given a deposit copy of every British publication, Bandinel shifted the budgetary focus of the library to the acquisition of foreign and rare books. In the following years, Bandinel increased the inventory of incunabula s, early Bible editions, dramas from the 17th and 18th centuries and pamphlets from the years 1660 to 1820. Bandinel's most admired acquisitions include the collections of the Jesuit Matteo Luigi Canonici , the Veronese one Patricians Giovanni Saibante, the linguist Gore Ouseley and the rabbi David Oppenheimer .

Bandinel's health began to decline around 1850, but he vehemently refused to retire. Eventually Bandinel gave up his pastor and curate post in 1855, but was not persuaded to resign as Bodley's Librarian until September 1860. Five months later, on February 6, 1861, Bandinel died of two diseases in quick succession.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t} Mary Clapinson: Bandinel, Bulkeley (1781–1861), librarian. In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Henry Colin Gray Matthew, September 23, 2004, accessed April 13, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Emily Tarrant: Gough Collection. In: Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts. Bodleian Libraries Repository, accessed April 14, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Emily Tarrant: Canonici Manuscripts. In: Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts. Bodleian Libraries Repository, accessed April 14, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Emily Tarrant: Saibante Manuscripts. In: Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts. Bodleian Libraries Repository, accessed April 14, 2020 .