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class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/St_Giles%27,_Oxford" title="St Giles', Oxford">St Giles', Oxford</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Academic_library" title="Academic library">Academic library</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Established</th><td class="infobox-data">1845<span class="noprint">; 179 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1845</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="text-align:center;background: #ededed;">Other information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Director</th><td class="infobox-data">James Legg</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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Since 1889, an <a href="/wiki/Taylorian_Lecture" title="Taylorian Lecture">Annual Lecture on a subject of Foreign Literature</a> has been given at the Taylorian Institution.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Taylor_Institution&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Taylor Institution was established in 1845, funded largely by a bequest from the estate of the notable <a href="/wiki/Architect" title="Architect">architect</a> <a href="/wiki/Robert_Taylor_(architect)" title="Robert Taylor (architect)">Sir Robert Taylor</a> (1714–1788). Modern European languages were not then taught at the University. (Not until 1903 were a <a href="/wiki/Faculty_of_Medieval_and_Modern_Languages,_University_of_Oxford" title="Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford">Medieval and Modern Languages Faculty</a> and Honours School instituted in Oxford.) Since the <a href="/wiki/Bodleian_Library" title="Bodleian Library">Bodleian Library</a> lacked space, the Taylorian was initially used to house things as varied as <a href="/wiki/William_Stubbs" title="William Stubbs">Stubbs</a>'s lectures on English history and the <a href="/wiki/Frederick_William_Hope" title="Frederick William Hope">Hope</a> collection of butterflies.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Description">Description</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Taylor_Institution&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Description"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The institution and its library are found in the east wing of a <a href="/wiki/Neo-classical_building" class="mw-redirect" title="Neo-classical building">neo-classical building</a> at the southern end of <a href="/wiki/St_Giles%27,_Oxford" title="St Giles', Oxford">St Giles'</a>. It was designed by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Robert_Cockerell" title="Charles Robert Cockerell">Charles Cockerell</a> to accommodate the institution and the University Galleries (now the <a href="/wiki/Ashmolean_Museum" title="Ashmolean Museum">Ashmolean Museum</a>) and opened in 1845. The building was extended to the north along St Giles' to designs by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Harold_Hughes" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Harold Hughes">T.H. Hughes</a> in 1931 and 1938.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The library serves, for the greater part, those studying for the degree of <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">Bachelor of Arts</a>, for the various <a href="/wiki/Master%27s_Degree" class="mw-redirect" title="Master's Degree">Master's degrees</a>, and for the <a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy" title="Doctor of Philosophy">DPhil</a> at <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford University">Oxford University</a>. The collections include Modern European languages, among them <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>, <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a> languages (including the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">South American Spanish language</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Brazilian_Portuguese" title="Brazilian Portuguese">Brazilian Portuguese language</a>) with a total of around five hundred thousand volumes. The Greek and Slavonic collections consist of European languages found further eastward, including the <a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>, <a href="/wiki/Slavic_languages" title="Slavic languages">Slavic</a> (including <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>), <a href="/wiki/Uralic_languages" title="Uralic languages">Uralic</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Albanian_language" title="Albanian language">Albanian</a> languages. </p><p>The library holds many world-class collections.<sup id="cite_ref-youtube_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-youtube-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its holdings in <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a> were started by <a href="/wiki/Max_M%C3%BCller" title="Max Müller">Max Müller</a>, who brought many publications from Germany, among them many of <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther" title="Martin Luther">Martin Luther</a>'s <i>Flugschriften</i>, including the first edition of his <i>Sendbrief vom Dolmetschen</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and go up to contemporary <a href="/wiki/German_literature" title="German literature">German literature</a>. Italian works run from <a href="/wiki/Dante" class="mw-redirect" title="Dante">Dante</a> and <a href="/wiki/Torquato_Tasso" title="Torquato Tasso">Tasso</a> through one of the largest collections of <a href="/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Guarini" title="Giovanni Battista Guarini">Giovanni Battista Guarini</a>'s seminal <i><a href="/wiki/Il_Pastor_fido" class="mw-redirect" title="Il Pastor fido">Il Pastor fido</a></i> to Foscolo and Futurist manifestos. The Spanish and Portuguese collections contain early editions of <a href="/wiki/Lope_de_Vega" title="Lope de Vega">Lope de Vega</a>, <a href="/wiki/Camoens" class="mw-redirect" title="Camoens">Camoens</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cervantes" class="mw-redirect" title="Cervantes">Cervantes</a>, <a href="/wiki/G%C3%B3ngora" class="mw-redirect" title="Góngora">Góngora</a>, <a href="/wiki/Francisco_de_Quevedo" title="Francisco de Quevedo">Quevedo</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Seraf%C3%ADn_Est%C3%A9banez_Calder%C3%B3n" title="Serafín Estébanez Calderón">Calderón</a>. Russian first editions are well represented.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The library's greatest strength, however, lies in its French holdings. <sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its collection of <a href="/wiki/French_Enlightenment" class="mw-redirect" title="French Enlightenment">French Enlightenment</a> authors stars the only complete collection in the world of all the French editions of <a href="/wiki/Voltaire" title="Voltaire">Voltaire</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Candide" title="Candide">Candide</a></i> printed in 1759, the year of first publication.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Taylorian also owns one of the only two known copies of the first edition of <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Constant" title="Benjamin Constant">Benjamin Constant</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Adolphe" title="Adolphe">Adolphe</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The collections include a lock of <a href="/wiki/Goethe" class="mw-redirect" title="Goethe">Goethe</a>'s hair.<sup id="cite_ref-youtube_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-youtube-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Taylor_Institution&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ashmolean_Museum" title="Ashmolean Museum">Ashmolean Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bodleian_Library" title="Bodleian Library">Bodleian Library</a></li> <li><a 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