Bodleian Library Seminars - Hilary Term 2020

Seminar in Palaeography and Manuscript Studies
Convenors: Daniel Wakelin, Martin Kauffmann 
Meetings will take place on Mondays at 2.15pm in weeks 4, 5, 6, and 8 in the Horton Room on the first floor of the Weston Library. All welcome. The speakers will show original manuscripts. 
10 FEBRUARY(Week 4) Helen Gittos, 'The Leofric Missal: what can a historian learn from a liturgical book?'
17 FEBRUARY (Week 5) Andrew Dunning, 'Teaching and healing at St Frideswide’s priory in 12th-century Oxford'
24 FEBRUARY (Week 6) Elizabeth Eva Leach, 'Why collect hundreds of songs without any musical notation? The case of MS. Douce 308'
9 MARCH (Week 8) Richard Gameson & Andrew Beeby, 'Scientific identification of pigments in medieval manuscripts: how, when, and why to do it' 

Seminar in the History of the Book 
Fridays 2.15pm, Weston Library, Level 2, Visiting Scholars’ Centre (VSC) 
An international and interdisciplinary seminar in outlook, hosted and supported by the Centre for the Study of the Book of the Bodleian Library 
Convenors: Prof. Cristina Dondi (Lincoln College and 15cBOOKTRADE) and Dr Alexandra Franklin (CSB) 
31 JANUARY (Week 2) Dr John-Paul Ghobrial, with Dr Celeste Gianni, Dr Feras Krimsti, Rosie Maxton, Dr Lucy Parker, and Dr Vevian Zaki (Oxford, History Faculty, Stories of Survival Project) 'Stories of Survival: The Lives and Afterlives of Eastern Christian Manuscripts in the Early Modern World'
7 FEBRUARY  (Week 3) Dr Stephanie Ann Frampton (MIT) '"Vade, liber": Textual Mobility and the History of Books'
14 FEBRUARY (Week 4) Prof. Angela Nuovo, with Dr Goran Proot, Dr Francesco Ammannati (University of Milan, Early Modern BookTrade Project) 'The price of books in early modern Europe'
28 FEBRUARY (Week 6) NOTE: begins at earlier time of 2.00 and runs to 4.30 (with a tea break, refreshments provided)
Prof. Henrike Laehnemann (Oxford) and Carolin Gluchowski (Freiburg) 'Recycling in action: the many lives of a medieval prayerbook'
and Dr Toby Burrows (Oxford, Mapping Manuscript Migrations Project) 'Mapping Manuscript Migrations: Digging into Data for Provenance Research'
6 MARCH (Week 7) Angeline Rais (Lincoln College, Oxford) 'The Travels of Sir Thomas Phillipps's Swiss Manuscripts across Europe and North America'
13 MARCH (Week 8) Dr Grantley McDonald (Oxford, Music and Late Medieval European Courtly Cultures Project) 'John Clement (d. 1572) and his books'

Persian Arts of the Book
13  FEBRUARY Dr Karin Scheper (Leiden University), 'In Search of Local Characteristics: Manuscript making in the Islamic world'
Khalili Research Centre Seminars, KRC Lecture Room, 5:15 pm
4 MARCH Dr Karin Scheper (Leiden, and Bahari Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Libraries) 'Islamic manuscripts and bindings as a window on East-West relations'
Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, 12 pm 
9 MARCH  Dr Shiva Mihan (Harvard Art Museums/Bahari Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Libraries), 'Piecing together a Timurid masterpiece'
Weston Library Lecture Theatre, 5:15 p.m

The D F McKenzie Lecture 2020
13 MARCH  'McKenzie 25 years on: anniversaries, legacies, reflections’
Professors Kathryn Sutherland; Dirk van Hulle; Peter McDonald. 
Chair: Richard Ovenden
5 pm Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty, St Cross Building

Bodleian Fellows Seminar 
WEDNESDAY 26 FEBRUARY (Week 6), Jenna Marshall (University of Kassel), Creolising Fabians at the end of empire: contested visions of postwar development policies in the Caribbean and South East Asia 
5:15, Visiting Scholars' Centre, Level 2, Weston Library
All welcome

E  A  Lowe Lectures in Palaeography 2020
'The Hebrew-Latin Manuscripts of the Library of Corpus Christi College'

Professor Judith Schlanger will deliver the E A Lowe Lectures at 5pm on the following days in the MBI Al Jaber Auditorium, Corpus Christi College.  Professor Schlanger, FBA, is President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, and Professor of Hebrew Manuscript Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. Her research interests include Hebrew palaeography, the analysis of legal documents in Hebrew characters in different parts of the medieval Jewish world from the Cairo Geniza to medieval England, and the study of Jewish book cultures and their contacts with non-Jewish intellectual environments in the East and the West.
 
Tuesday 25 FEBRUARY – “Two nations in their mother’s womb” – Hebrew-Latin manuscripts, their materiality and their purpose
Thursday 27 FEBRUARY – “Take the garment of a Jew” – bilingual manuscripts, their glosses and their Jewish background
Tuesday 3 MARCH – From “superscriptio Lincolniensis” to Prior Gregory – the difficult question of manuscripts’ provenance. 

Oxford Bibliographical Society Lectures 
30 JANUARY, Elizabeth Savage (Institute of English Studies, London), 'Hans Baldung (Grien) and Johann Schott: Rediscovering the most prolific colour printer of the Holy Roman Empire, 1510–1530'. Print viewing: Ashmolean Museum, New Douce Room (4-5pm); lecture: 5.30 pm Lincoln College, Lower Lecture Room
13 FEBRUARY, John Colley (Linacre College), 'Folly and folio: The printing of Alexander Barclay’s Shyp of Folys (1509)'
Corpus Christi College Auditorium, 5:15 p.m.
9 MARCH, Shiva Mihan (Harvard Art Museums/Bahari Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Libraries), 'Piecing together a Timurid masterpiece'
Weston Library Lecture Theatre, 5:15 p.m.
19 MARCH, Martyn Ould (The Old School Press), 'Printing books at OUP, 1660-1780, from author’s copy to printed sheets'
Oxford University Press, Conference Room, 5:15 p.m.