Editing Bodleian Library (section)

==In popular culture==
===Novels===
The Bodleian is one of the libraries consulted by Christine Greenaway (one of Bodley's librarians) in [[Colin Dexter]]'s [[Inspector Morse]] novel ''[[The Wench Is Dead]]'' (1989).<ref>{{cite book |first=Colin |last=Dexter |author-link=Colin Dexter |title=The Wench is Dead |year=1989 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |location=New York |isbn=0-312-04444-5 |url=https://archive.org/stream/wenchisdead00dext#mode/2up |pages=[https://archive.org/stream/wenchisdead00dext#page/64/mode/2up 65–67] }}</ref> The denouement of [[Michael Innes]]'s ''[[Operation Pax]]'' (1951) is set in an imaginary version of the underground bookstack, reached at night by sliding down the "Mendip cleft", a chute concealed in [[Radcliffe Square]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Michael |last=Innes |author-link=Michael Innes |title=Operation Pax |publisher=Penguin |location=Harmondsworth |year=1975 |orig-year=1951 |url=https://archive.org/details/operationpax00inne |pages=[https://archive.org/details/operationpax00inne/page/300/mode/2up 300–316]|isbn=9780140022032 }}</ref>

Since [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] had studied philology at Oxford and eventually became a professor, many of Tolkien's manuscripts are now at the library.<ref>{{cite web |title=Literary Archives and Manuscripts |url=https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/weston/finding-resources/guides/literary |publisher=Bodleian Libraries |access-date= 4 February 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth |publisher=Bodleian Libraries |url=https://tolkien.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ |access-date=4 February 2021}}</ref>

Historian and novelist [[Deborah Harkness]], set much of the early part of her 2011 novel, ''[[A Discovery of Witches]]'', in the Bodleian, particularly the Selden End. The novel also features one of the library's [[Ashmolean Museum|Ashmole manuscripts]] (Ashmole 782) as a central element of the book.<ref>{{cite book |last=Harkness |first=Deborah E. |author-link=Deborah Harkness |url=https://archive.org/stream/discoveryofwitch0000hark_l9w9 |title=A Discovery of Witches |publisher=Headline |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-7553-7404-5 |location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Hand |first=Elizabeth |title=Books: 'A Discovery of Witches' by Deborah Harkness |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=3 March 2011 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/02/AR2011030206303.html |access-date=4 February 2021 }}</ref>

Medieval historian [[Dominic Selwood]] set part of his 2013 crypto-thriller ''[[The Sword of Moses (novel)|The Sword of Moses]]'' in [[Duke Humfrey's Library]], and the novel hinges on the library's copy of a magical medieval Hebrew manuscript known as "[[The Sword of Moses]]".<ref>{{cite book |first=Dominic |last=Selwood |author-link=Dominic Selwood |title=[[The Sword of Moses (novel)|The Sword of Moses]] |location=London |publisher=Corax |year=2013 |isbn=9780992633202 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=J. F. |last=Penn |title=Templars, Freemasons and the Ark of the Covenant with Dominic Selwood |website=jfpenn.com |date=18 March 2015 |url=https://jfpenn.com/templars-dominic-selwood/ |access-date=4 February 2021 }}</ref>

===Location filming===
The Library's architecture has made it a popular location for filmmakers, representing either Oxford University or other locations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/filming-photography|title=Commercial filming and photography|website=visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk}}</ref> It can be seen in the opening scene of ''[[The Golden Compass (film)|The Golden Compass]]'' (2007), ''[[Brideshead Revisited (TV serial)|Brideshead Revisited]]'' (1981 TV serial), ''[[Wonka (film)|Wonka]]'' (2023), ''[[Another Country (1984 film)|Another Country]]'' (1984), ''[[The Madness of King George III]]'' (1994), and the first two, as well as the fourth, ''[[Harry Potter (film series)|Harry Potter]]'' films, in which the [[Divinity School, Oxford|Divinity School]] doubles as the [[Hogwarts]] hospital wing and the room in which Professor McGonagall teaches the students to dance, as well as [[Duke Humfrey's Library]] as the [[Hogwarts|Hogwarts library]].<ref>Leonard, Bill, ''The Oxford of Inspector Morse'' Location Guides, Oxford (2004) p. 203 {{ISBN|0-9547671-1-X}}.</ref>