Guide For Using WoodIndex.html

Like most people trying to use the Bliss edition of Anthony à Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses, I was frustrated by the poor indexing. So I created a sortable index.

You are welcome to use the index on this site, but you will not be able to link directly to the volumes of Athenæ Oxonienses. (Not would you want to: it would be way too slow.). To get full use out of this index, make a local copy and download the volumes, following these instructions:

  1. Create a directory. For the purpose of these instructions, we will call it C:\Wood.
  2. Save the sortable index. in C:\Wood using your browser's File->Save page as... menu option.
  3. If you want the index to be sortable, download Stuart Landridge's sorttable.js to the same directory.
  4. Download the black-and-white PDF versions of Athenæ Oxonienses from archive.org. The links are: These are large files, and each may take several minutes to load. When they load in your browser (or in a browser helper program), save them in C:\Wood.
  5. Open the local copy of the index using your browser's "File->open" or "File->open file" menu. Browse to C:\Wood and select the file WoodIndex or WoodIndex.html.
  6. Now you should be able to use the links in the index. Some older versions of Adobe Reader will not open to the correct page when you click a "Col" link. If this happens, just tab to the "page" widgit and type in the corresponding number from the "page" column of the index.
  7. To sort the table (if you have downloaded sorttable.js), just click on a table heading. (It is sloooow, but eventually you will get a sorted list).

If you have trouble using this index, let me know at bblair48@yahoo.com.