Ashmole

Harkness's book opens with Diana Bishop, an American academic, perusing a mysterious, alchemical manuscript known as "Ashmole 782," in the reading room of Oxford's Bodleian Library.

Books: 'A Discovery of Witches' by Deborah Harkness, reviewed by Elizabeth Hand 2011

Harkness's book opens with Diana Bishop, an American academic, perusing a mysterious, alchemical manuscript known as "Ashmole 782," in the reading room of Oxford's Bodleian Library.

Books: 'A Discovery of Witches' by Deborah Harkness, reviewed by Elizabeth Hand 2011

The beloved but dusty and sepulchral Ashmolean Museum -- named for Elias Ashmole, who donated his cabinet of curiosities to Oxford University in 1677 -- has undergone a dramatic, $96.6 million transformation.

Andrew Harper's Notebook Andrew Harper 2010

I have a postcard of a bonnacon from the Ashmole bestiary.

a beast like a bull, that uses its dung as a weapon 2007

I'd recommend the reports of a Radio 5 reporter called (I think) Julie Ashmole.

It's All Our Fault (Again) Laban 2004

I'd recommend the reports of a Radio 5 reporter called (I think) Julie Ashmole.

Archive 2004-12-26 Laban 2004

Ashmole was also the first person to write approvingly of the Templars since their suppression.9

The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

For example, the early Masons were very concerned with alchemy: a mid-fifteenth-century alchemical treatise alludes to Freemasons as ‘workers in alchemy’7 and one of the first Masonic initiates was recorded as being Elias Ashmole inducted in 1646, founder of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, who was an alchemist, hermeticist and Rosicrucian8.

The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

Ashmole in particular was a known Rosicrucian, while Moray, according to Frances Yates, ‘did more, probably, than any other individual to foster the foundation of the Royal Society.’

The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

The reader will find I have borrowed several incidents as well as names from Ashmole, and the more early authorities; but my first acquaintance with the history was through the more pleasing medium of verse.

Kenilworth 2004