![]() Lawrence completed his thesis in the winter of 1909–10. Despite the theft of his camera in Syria, it incorporates numerous original photographs as well as plans, sketches, and postcards. Submitted for the Final Honour School of Modern History in July 1910, the thesis was marked ‘most excellent’, and in the words of one of the examiners, it made ‘safe but slight’ what was ‘otherwise a not very exciting First’. Moreover, Lawrence’s achievement undoubtedly earned him the patronage of D.G. Hogarth, Keeper of the Ashmolean. Keep of Saone from southwest – plans of donjons. In the summer vacation of 1909, Lawrence arrived in Beirut, intending to walk through Syria and Palestine. After heading south through Galilee, he visited Aleppo, Urfa (Edessa), and Damascus. He reached Crac des Chevaliers, which he called ‘the finest castle in the world, certainly the most picturesque’, on 16 August, his 21st birthday. Lawrence spent the summers of 1906, 1907, and 1908 crossing France on his Oxford-made Morris bicycle, recording medieval castles and fortifications. New regulations gave history students the option of submitting a thesis on one of their special subjects and so Lawrence discussed his survey with C.F. Bell, Assistant Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, who suggested a comparison with the castles built by Crusaders in the Middle East. We are continuing to digitise our manuscripts and to make the images freely available on Digital Bodleian. Lawrence’s thesis on Crusader Castles, are described below, and there are a number of posts about the manuscripts on the Jesus College Libraries blog. ![]() Two of our treasured manuscripts, the Red Book of Hergest and T.E. 181), are held in the College Library and the Archives. 146 is catalogued in Ker’s Medieval manuscripts in British libraries.) Modern manuscripts numbered 151 and above, including T.E. An annotated version of Coxe’s catalogue is held in the Library Office. qui in collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus hodie adservantur (1852) brief entries for pre-1601 manuscripts are also available in the Bodleian’s online catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries where you can order them for consultation in the Weston Library. The most recent catalogue is the second volume of Coxe’s Catalogus codicum MSS. They have been on deposit in the Bodleian Libraries since 1886 and thus appointments to consult manuscripts with numbers between 1 and 150 should be made at the Weston Library. The medieval and early modern manuscripts owned by Jesus College date back to the 11th century.
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