Entrance - with Pelican Sundial in front quadrangle

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Record ID number	cbe0805e-b3ab-4e2b-a248-16f08d9b2e6e
Date	1517
OBJE:_DSCR	Corpus Christi College (full name: The President and Scholars of the College of Corpus Christi in the University of Oxford) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1517, it is the 12th oldes t college in Oxford. The college, situated on Merton Street between Merton College and Oriel College, is one of the smallest in Oxford by student population, having around 230 undergraduates and 120 graduates. It is academic by Oxford standards , averaging in the top half of the university's informal ranking system, the Norrington Table, in recent years, and coming second in 2009–10. The college has had for a long time a reputation as specializing and excelling in Classics, due to th e emphasis placed upon this subject since its founding; to this day it takes more students to study Classics (and its joint schools) each year than any other single subject. The college's historical significance includes its role in the transl ation of the King James Bible. The college is also noted for the pillar sundial in the main quadrangle known as the Pelican Sundial, which was erected in 1581 by Charles Turnbull. History Founding The college dates its founding to 1517, w hen its founder, Richard Foxe, the Bishop of Winchester, established the college statutes. Letters patent had been granted by Henry VIII in the previous year and building work had started as early as 1512. Foxe had initially stated that he intend ed the college as a lodge for monks from St Swythun's Priory in Winchester; however, under the influence of the Bishop of Exeter (and friend of Foxe) Hugh Oldham it became a humanist enterprise, dedicated to the study of the classics. The library , founded at the same time as the college, was 'probably, when completed, the largest and best furnished library then in Europe'. The scholar Erasmus noted in a letter of 1519 to the first President, John Claymond, that it was a library 'inter pra ecipua decora Britanniae' ('among the chief beauties of Britain'), and praised the fact that it was a 'biblioteca trilinguis' (trilingual library) containing, as it did, books in Latin, Greek and Hebrew. The important Spanish humanist Juan Luis Vi ves taught at Corpus during the 1520s while tutor to Mary Tudor, later Mary I of England. Religious ferment In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the college was again involved in religious ferment. Reginald Pole, a fellow of the coll ege in the 1520s, was Archbishop of Canterbury during the reign of Queen Mary, and a candidate for the papacy. John Rainolds, another fellow, and Corpus' seventh President, was involved in the inception and translation of the King James Bible, p ublished in 1611. 19th century John Keble, a leader of the Oxford Movement, was an undergraduate at Corpus at the start of the nineteenth century, and went on to a fellowship at Oriel and to have a college named after him (Keble College, Oxfo rd). -- 2 Nov 2009
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