page_title: Painted frieze of the Bodleian Library
section_title: Content and layout
hierarchical_section_title: Painted frieze of the Bodleian Library / Content and layout
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, from The Bodleian Library at Oxford (1919), by Falconer Madan. Duke Humfrey's Library, the oldest reading room in the Bodleian Library, was featured as Hogwarts library in Harry Potter films.
context_page_description: The painted frieze at the Bodleian Library, in Oxford, United Kingdom, is a series of 202 portrait heads in what is now the Upper Reading Room. It was made in 1619, and the choice of worthies to include was advanced for its time, featuring Copernicus and Paracelsus as well as Protestant reformers. The portraits have been attributed to the London guild painter Thomas Knight; they were taken from at least ten different sources, according to current views.
  The frieze was painted directly onto stonework, and its condition deteriorated despite restoration in the 18th century. It was plastered over in 1830, and rediscovered in 1949.
context_section_description: The frieze was painted in 1619. Its content came from Thomas Bodley (who had died in 1613) and the direction of his book collecting; but also represented the views of Thomas James, the first librarian. Theologically it portrays the Church of England as a continuation of the Catholic dissidents John Wyclif, Jan Hus, Savonarola, and Erasmus. The Protestant Reformation is strongly represented, and John Rainolds, the learned Oxford conforming Puritan, is included. 
  The portrait heads are located high on the walls of the U-shaped floor, running above the windows, with paintings several feet apart spaced out by images mainly of books. There is a division by the topics on which the authors wrote, corresponding to the university disciplines of the time. The theological display is on the southern flank; the northern side's authors refer to the Faculty of Arts.
caption: Map of the Bodleian Library, 1919.
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