Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford

Corpus Christi College, founded in 1517 by Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester and a chief advisor to both King Henry VII and King Henry VIII, was established with radical Renaissance ideas. The College was the first to teach its students Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, making it a dynamic and unsurpassed centre of Classical and Scriptural study. This allowed Corpus to take the lead in promoting the enterprise that resulted in the King James Bible. Renaissance scholarship required a superior library. The Colleges founder began the process of filing the Library with an astonishing collection of manuscripts and early printed books in these three languages. Erasmus himself claimed it would equal the Vaticans. In present times, Corpus is one of the smallest colleges that comprises part of the University of Oxford, having around 250 undergraduates and 110 graduates, totalling approximately 400 members of the academic community including academic staff, along with a further 150 registered libra...