The Malone and Osborn collections
Marginal Malone_Programme. ‘Marginal Malone’, a symposium of the Yale Program in the History of the Book and the Bodleian Libraries Centre for the Study of the Book Arch. G d.41 This quarto volume is...
View ArticleBodleian Master classes in 2015-16: retrospect
The master classes programme presents scholars discussing materials from Bodleian special collections. In 2015-16 the programme included discussions of the letter forms, musical notation, provenance,...
View ArticleThe Cheney Archive at the Bodleian Libraries
from Isobel Goodman, intern (2017) Rare Books, Bodleian Libraries Special Collections The Cheney archive documents the history of Cheney & Sons, an independent family printing firm based in...
View ArticleSeminar in Palaeography and Manuscript Studies, 2019
The Seminar in Palaeography and Manuscript Studies runs annually in the Weston Library in Hilary term (Jan-March). The 2019 Seminar aimed to showcase the research of some of the early career scholars...
View ArticleSix medieval manuscripts, two laptops, a curator and a document camera
Teaching with library material has been continuing at the Bodleian’s Weston Library for Special Collections even as provisions to protect the health of staff and readers have placed restrictions on...
View ArticleSeminar in the History of the Book, 2021
Seminar in the History of the Book, Hilary Term 2021 Fridays at 2:15pm (GMT) On-line: Register by email to: bookcentre@bodleian.ox.ac.uk , giving the dates of any seminars you wish to attend....
View ArticleSeminar in Palaeography and Manuscript Studies, 2021
Seminar in Palaeography and Manuscript Studies Convenors: Daniel Wakelin, Martin Kauffmann Meetings will take place online via Zoom on Mondays at 2.15pm (GMT) in weeks 1, 3, 5, and 7. Original...
View ArticleRetrospect of the Hilary Term 2021 Seminars in Palaeography, Manuscript...
Adam Whittaker demonstrating the ‘Guidonian Hand’ as used in medieval music theory manuscripts, with Andrew Dunning (Bodleian)’s hand holding MS. Bodl. 515. Thanks to Henrike Laehnemann for the image....
View ArticleRare books and manuscripts ‘potluck’ online in 2021
Public and university libraries have faced the pandemic with a multitude of inventive new ways of connecting books and readers, such as ‘Grab and Go’ book deliveries limiting the time of physical...
View ArticleBodleian CSB Seminars, Hilary Term 2022
Seminar in the History of the Book Hilary Term, Fridays, 2:15 pm Registration required: https://forms.office.com/r/FSXrV1W98u YOU MUST BE REGISTERED 24 HOURS BEFORE THE SEMINAR TO RECEIVE A LINK TO...
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