The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bodleian \Bod"lei*an\, a. Of or pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, or to the celebrated library at Oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from Sir Thomas Bodley (1545-1613), who in 1597 refounded the library at Oxford University.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20Thomas%20Bodley (1545–1613), English diplomat and scholar and founder of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodleian%20Library.
Usage examples of "bodleian".
He had a little argument with Mr Sniggs about the plans for rebuilding the Bodleian.
In a manuscript preserved in the Bodleian Library, and translated by Dr.
Khayyam, but the two mentioned here are the best known, with the Bodleian Manuscript used by Fitzgerald and copied in Shiraz in 1460-61.
This edition will make use of the original manuscripts deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and of other collections.
By a remarkable and subtle piece of scholarship, Tolkien showed that the language of two important manuscripts of the text (one in a Cambridge college, the other in the Bodleian Library at Oxford) was no mere unpolished dialect, but a literary language, with an unbroken literary tradition going back to before the Conquest.
Besides our printed authors, he draws his materials from the Arabic Mss. of Oxford, which he would have more deeply searched had he been confined to the Bodleian library instead of the city jail a fate how unworthy of the man and of his country!