Editing Jesus College, Oxford (section)

=== Second quadrangle ===
[[File:JesusCollegeOxfordQuad3.jpg|right|thumb|North facing view of the second Quadrangle with the [[Dutch gables]] around the top of the buildings and flora visible]]

In 1640, Francis Mansell (appointed principal in 1630) began construction of a second quadrangle with buildings along the north and south sides; further work was interrupted by the [[English Civil War]].<ref>Baker (1971), pp. 1–2</ref><ref name=Hardy91>Hardy, p. 91</ref> Work began again in 1676, and the library (now the Fellows' Library) was completed by 1679.<ref name=Hardy172>Hardy, p. 172</ref><ref name=VCH274>Baker (1954), p. 274</ref> Under Jonathan Edwards (principal from 1688 to 1712), further rooms were built to complete the quadrangle; the project was completed just after his death in 1712.<ref name=Hardy172 /> Pevsner described the second quadrangle as "a uniform composition", noting the "regular fenestration by windows with round-arched lights, their hood-moulds forming a continuous frieze".<ref name=Pevsner144>Pevsner, p. 144</ref> The [[Dutch gables]] have [[ogee]] sides and semi-circular [[pediments]].<ref name=Pevsner144 /> The writer [[Simon Jenkins]] said that the quadrangle has "the familiar Oxford Tudor windows and decorative Dutch gables, crowding the skyline like Welsh dragons' teeth and lightened by exuberant flower boxes".<ref>{{cite book|title=England's Thousand Best Houses|last=Jenkins|first=Simon|author-link=Simon Jenkins|page=680|isbn=978-0-14-103929-9 |year=2009|publisher=[[Penguin Books]]}}</ref>

The Fellows' Library contains bookcases decorated with [[strapwork]] dating from about 1628, which were used in an earlier library in the college.<ref name=Pevsner144 /> Hardy's opinion was that, "if only it had an open timber roof instead of the plain ceiling, it would be one of the most picturesque College Libraries".<ref name=Hardyx /><ref>Hardy, p. xi</ref> Another author said (in 1914, after the provision of a library for undergraduates elsewhere in the quadrangle) that it was "one of the most charming of Oxford libraries, and one of the least frequented".<ref name=Gibson>{{cite book|title=Some Oxford libraries|year=1914|oclc=3791497|last=Gibson|first=Strickland|page=[https://archive.org/details/someoxfordlibrar00gibsrich/page/89 89]|url=https://archive.org/details/someoxfordlibrar00gibsrich|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|access-date=28 June 2009|isbn=1-55014-330-1}}</ref> It holds 11,000 antiquarian printed books and houses many of the college's rare texts, including a Greek bible dating from 1545 and signed by [[Philipp Melanchthon]] and others, much of the library of the scholar and philosopher [[Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury|Lord Herbert of Cherbury]] and 17th-century volumes by [[Robert Boyle]] and [[Sir Isaac Newton]].<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Jesus College Record |year=1994 |orig-year=1993 |title=College News and Notes|pages=6–7}}</ref><ref name=Appeal>{{cite journal|title=Fellows' Library Appeal launched |journal=Jesus College Newsletter |url=http://alumni.jesus.ox.ac.uk/MT07Newsletter.pdf |access-date=25 June 2009 |year=2007 |issue=8 |pages=1–2 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/5kF2T4BD5?url=http://alumni.jesus.ox.ac.uk/MT07Newsletter.pdf |archive-date= 3 October 2009 }}</ref>