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Oxford Bibliographical Society
Past Programmes
2010-11Monday, 15 November 2010, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 pm
Digital Austen: Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts Online
Visit
Wednesday, 26 January 2011 at 3.00 pm
Visit to the Ashmolean Museum Conservation Studio.
Monday, 14 February 2011, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 pm
What the Preliminaries Can Tell Us about Early Modern Spanish Books
Monday, 28 February 2011, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 pm
Lecture Masculine ou Feminine: Ways of Becoming Accomplished Heirs Apparent in Late Eighteenth-Century Spain
Monday, 14 March 2011, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 pm
Legacies of the Book: Early Missionary Printing in Asia and the Americas
Monday, 16 May 2011, Taylor Institution at 5.15 pm
Let Them Speak for Themselves: Incunables and Cataloguing at Cambridge University Library
Annual General Meeting
Thursday, 16 June 2011, McKenna Room, Christ Church, at 3.00 pm
Syon Abbey’s Devotional Texts in Manuscript and in Print
Visit
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Visit to
2009-10
Monday, 9 November 2009, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 pm
Peter
Koch (Peter Koch Printers)
Printing in the Shadow of Aldus: The Book as a Work of Art in
the 21st Century
Monday, 8 February 2010, Taylor Institution at 5.15 pm
Peter Parsons (Christ Church, Oxford)
Artemidorus: A New Papyrus and an Old Forger
Visit
Wednesday, 24 February 2010, at 3.00 pm
Visit to the Oxford University Archives
Monday, 1 March 2010, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 pm
William Poole (University College, Oxford)
The Chinaman and the Librarian: The Meeting of Shen Fuzong
and Thomas Hyde in 1687
Monday, 3 May 2010, Taylor Institution at 5.15 pm
Giles Bergel (Merton College, Oxford)
From Small Books to Little Magazines: The Reformation of the
Chapbook
Monday, 17 May 2010, Taylor Institution at 5.15 pm
Daniela Mairhoffer (Bodleian Library)
Archbishop Laud's Latin Manuscripts from Mainz
Annual General Meeting
Wednesday, 9 June 2010, McKenna Room, Christ Church at 3.00 pm
Richard Sharpe (Wadham College, Oxford)
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain
Visit
Thursday, 22 July 2010 t.b.a.
Visit to the Getty Library in Wormsley. Introduction to the
collection by the Curator. Members wishing to join the party are asked to inform
the Secretary of the Society at least 3 weeks in advance.
2008-9
Monday, 20 October 2008, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 pm
Peter Kidd (formerly Curator of Illuminated MSS at the British Library)
The Acciaiuoli Hours: Images, Texts, Provenance, and Codicology of a Dismembered
14th-Century Horae
Monday, 1 December 2008, Taylor Institution at 5.15 pm
Jane Potter (Oxford Brookes University)
The Bookman in the Great War and After
Monday, 26 January 2009, Taylor Institution at 5.15 pm
James Clark (University of Bristol)
Monastic Books in Medieval England
Visit
Wednesday, 11 February 2009 at 3.00 pm
Visit to the Oxford University Press Archives. Members wishing to come are asked
to inform the Secretary at least 2 weeks in advance.
Monday, 23 February 2009, Taylor Institution at 5.15 pm
Ian Gadd (Bath Spa University)
'Leaving the Printer to his Liberty': Printing and Publishing Jonathan Swift's
Political Tracts, 1711-14
Monday, 2 March 2009, Taylor Institution at 5.15 pm
Tiffany Stern (University College, Oxford)
The Play and its Manuscript Skeleton: Plots, Plots and Plots
Monday, 4 May 2009, Taylor Institution at 5.15 pm
Dirk Obbink (Christ Church, Oxford)
Imaging Derveni: The Oldest Greek Manuscript
Monday, 18 May 2009, Taylor Institution at 5.15 pm
Brian Richardson (University of Leeds)
Isabella d'Este and the Social Life of Texts in Renaissance Italy
Annual General Meeting
Wednesday, 3 June 2009, McKenna Room, Christ Church, at 3.00 pm
Michael Suarez (Campion Hall, Oxford)
Fleshing those Bones: Finding Thew and Sinew in a Sociology of Texts
Visit
Tuesday, 21 July 2009 t.b.a.
Visit to the Wellcome Library in London. Introduction to the collection by the
Curator, Julianne Simpson. Tour will also include a visit to the new British
Library Centre for Conservation. Members wishing to join the party are asked to
inform the Secretary of the Society at least 3 weeks in advance.
2007-2008
Monday 22 October 2007, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Nikolas Sarris
Seeing through the Cover : Decorated Bookbindings at the Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai, Egypt
Monday 12 November 2007, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
William Sherman
The Beginning of the End : Terminal Paratext after the Invention of Printing
Monday 21 January 2008, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Nigel
Wilson
A Treasure-Trove of Lost Texts : the Archimedes Palimpsest?
Monday 11 February 2008, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Sally Shuttleworth
Monkeys and Babies in the Victorian Periodical
Visit
Tuesday 11 March 2008, at 3.00 p.m
Visit to the Rare Books Section and The John Johnson Digital Project
(Bodleian Library).
Annual General Meeting
Wednesday 23 April 2008, in the Friend Room, The Lee Building, Christ Church,
at 3.00 p.m
Speaker: William Bell
Reading between the Lines: Literature on the Western Front 1914-18
Tea will be served in Christ Church after the
meeting.
Monday 19 May 2008, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
James Willoughby
The Libraries of Medieval Colleges beyond the Universities
Monday 16 June 2008, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Claire Bolton
Fifteenth-century Printing Practices of Johann Zainer, Ulm
Visit
Tuesday 29 July 2008
Visit to the Royal Library and Print Room at Windsor.
2006-2007
Monday 13th November 2006, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.mDr Julian Harrison (British Library)
Sir Robert Cotton's library revisited
Monday 22nd January 2007, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr Matthew Nicholls (Queen's College, Oxford)
Public Libraries in the Roman Empire
Visit
Tuesday 13th February 2007, at 3.00 p.m
Visit to the Conservation Studio of the Oxford Conservation Consortium.
Monday 5th March 2007, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr Peter McDonald (St Hugh's, Oxford)
Apartheid and the Cultural Cold War: Periodicals and the Republic of English
Letters in South Africa in the 1950s and 1960s
Monday 19th March 2007, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Mr Paul Foote (Queen's College, Oxford)
English Books and the Russian Censorship in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Annual General Meeting
Wednesday 25th April 2007, in the Cecil Jackson Room, The Sheldonian Theatre, at 3.00 p.m
Speaker: Professor James Raven (University of Essex)
Judging the Law: Legal Decisions and the Book Trade in Britain 1450–1850
Monday 14th May 2007, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr Clive Griffin (Trinity College, Oxford)
Archival Sources for the Lives of Printing Workers in the 16th Century: the Case
of Spain
Wednesday 13th June 2007, McKenna Room, Christ Church, at 5.15 p.m
Seminar on new developments in paper and paper conservation
Visit
Tuesday 17th July 2007 [time t.b.a.]
Visit to Winchester Cathedral and Library. Tour will also include the Morley
Library and the Triforium Gallery. Introduction to the collections by the
Curator, John Hardacre.
2005-2006
Thursday 27th October 2005, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.mMr Stephen Massill
Immigrants, refugees and exiles: foreign librarians in Britain, 1500-1950
Thursday 26th January 2006, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr Penelope Bulloch
Ovid's French heroines: pictures of women writing in a 15th-century manuscript
from the French court
Thursday 2nd March 2006, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr Francesca Galligan
The library of Samuel Harsnett: a preliminary report
Thursday 9th March 2006, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr Jason McElligott
Secret and seditious: an underground network of Royalist printers and
publishers in civil war London
Visit
Wednesday 22nd March 2006
Visit to the Imaging Studio of the Oxford University Library Services with
opportunity to observe digital image capture.
Annual General Meeting
Wednesday 19th April 2006, in the Cecil Jackson Room, The
Sheldonian Theatre, at 3.00 p.m
Speaker: Professor Marcus Walsh
Editing Swift's Tale of the Tub
Thursday 18th May 2006, Merton College, at 5.15 p.m
Round Table Discussion
A catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian
Library, Oxford
Visit
Friday 14th July 2006
Visit to Tyntesfield, Victorian country house and library. Tour and introduction
to the collections by Mr Mark Purcell and other staff of the National Trust.
2004-2005
Thursday 14th October 2004, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr Ian Christie-Miller
Paper Imaging as a Bibliographical Research Tool
Thursday 2nd December 2004, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 pm
Mr Andrew Honey
The condition survey of the manuscripts in the monastery of Saint
Catherine on Mount Sinai
Thursday 27th January 2005, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Mr Mark Purcell
Surveying the National Trust's Libraries: or, Five Years Around the Houses
Library Visit
Tuesday 15th March 2005 at 3.00pm
Visit to the library of the Oxford Union as guests of the
Librarian-in-charge, Ms Su Lockley. Members wishing to come are
asked to inform the Secretary.
Annual General Meeting
Wednesday 27th April 2005, in the Cecil Jackson Room, The
Sheldonian Theatre, at 3.00 p.m
Speaker: Professor Thomas Earle
Portuguese Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean Oxford:
Evidence from the Bodleian and College Libraries
Thursday 5th May 2005, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr Anne Goldgar
Lies, the Press, and the Republic of Letters: The Saurin Affair
Thursday 26th May 2005, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr Valerie Holman
Print for Victory: Publishing in World War II
Visit
Monday 18th July 2005, at 2.00pm
Visit to St Bride Printing Library (Fleet Street, London).
Tour and introduction to the collections by Librarian, Mr Nigel
Roche. Refreshments will be served.
2003-2004
Thursday 30th October 2003, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.mDr Cristina Dondi
The School of San Girolamo, Nicolaus Jenson, and Venetian Books of Hours
Thursday 20th November 2003, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 pm
Dr Cristina Neagu
Changes in the iconographical canon: 15th and 16th century Italian
Books of Hours in the Bodleian Library
Thursday 22nd January 2004, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Mr Philip Waller
Novelists and the reading public, 1880-1914
Thursday 12th February 2004, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr David Brancaleone
The Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property
Library Visit
Thursday 25th March 2004 at 2.30pm
Visit to Merton College as guests of the Fellow Librarian,
Dr Julia Walworth and Archivist, Mr Julian Reid.
Annual General Meeting
Wednesday 21st April 2004, in the Cecil Jackson Room, The
Sheldonian Theatre, at 3.00 p.m
Speaker: Professor John Barnard
"Sleeping Stationers": John Norton's Bible Dealing 1610-1612
Thursday 20th May 2004, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr Robin Darwall-Smith
Mr Michael Riordan
Archives for administrators or archives for antiquarians? Early
archive catalogues from four Oxford Colleges
Visit
Monday 19th July 2004, afternoon (time to be announced)
Visit to Hughenden Manor, home of Prime Minister Benjamin
Disraeli. Tour and introduction to the collections by Mr Mark
Purcell and other staff of the National Trust.
2002-2003
Thursday 24th October 2002, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.mMrs Mary Clapinson and Mr David Vaisey
The Bodleian and its librarians
Thursday 21st November 2002, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 pm
Dr Andrew Nash
"The Dead should be protected from their own carelessness": collected
editions of Robert Louis Stevenson, 1894-1924
Thursday 23rd January 2003, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Mr John Randle
The Whittington Press and Oxford
Thursday 27th February 2003, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr David Rundle
The wanderings of manuscripts once owned by Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester
Library Visit
Thursday 3rd April 2003 (time to be announced)
Visit to St John's College as guests of the Fellow Librarian,
Dr Peter Hacker.
Annual General Meeting
Wednesday 30th April 2003, in the Cecil Jackson Room, The
Sheldonian Theatre, at 3.00 p.m
Speaker: Dr Kristian Jensen
Importing Humanism: Marginal Notes in Leipzig Books
Special
event
Thursday 12th June 2003, Magdalen College Auditorium, at 5.15 p.m
Dr David Skinner
The Arundel Choirbook
Talk with live musical illustration, followed by a reception to mark
the publication of The Arundel Choirbook by the Roxburghe Club
Visit
Tuesday 15th July 2003
Visit to Department of Typography & Graphic Communication,
The University of Reading.
2001-2002
Thursday 25th October 2001, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.mDr Robert McNamee
Electronic Enlightenment: digitizing the Republic of Letters
Thursday 29th November 2001, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 pm
Dr Nicholas Pickwoad
Forgotten books in a forgotten library: some interesting and unusual
bookbindings in the Biblioteca Communale of Foligno
Thursday 17th January 2002, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Linda Whiteley
The 'literary genre' of French eighteenth-century sale catalogues
Thursday 7th February 2002, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr Stephen Roe
The newly-rediscovered Autograph Manuscripts of Johann Christian
Bach's Church Music at the Staats-und Universitätsbibliothek,
Hamburg
Thursday 7th March 2002, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Mr Reg Carr
The Mandrake Press, 1929-30: an illustrated account of a small
private press
Library Visit
Thursday 21st March 2002 (2.30pm)
Visit to Trinity College as guests of the Fellow Librarian,
Dr Dinah Birch.
Annual General Meeting
Wednesday 24th April 2002, in the Cecil Jackson Room, The
Sheldonian Theatre, at 3.00 p.m
Speaker: Professor Rodney Thomson
The books of the twelfth-century Renaissance
Library Visit
Wednesday 10th July 2002
Visit to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge courtesy of the
Librarian, Dr Christopher De Hamel.