ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES REPORT FROM THE BODLEIAN LIBRARIES CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF THE BOOK 2013-14
ACADEMIC
PROGRAMMES REPORT FROM THE BODLEIAN LIBRARIES
CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF THE BOOK
2013-14
FEATURES
Academic programmes in
partnership
Exploring Bodleian collections
Lectures in Book History
Medieval manuscripts
Early Modern Collections
Oriental Collections
18th &19th century
20th century and contemporary
Visiting Scholars
Student engagement
Learning and research
PARTNERSHIPS
W/ Centre for Early Modern Studies
2-3 July 2014
Conference 2014: Scholarship, Science and
Religion in the Age of Isaac Casaubon and
Henry Savile
W/ Faculty of English Language and Literature
29-31 May 2014
‘Transforming Scripture: Biblical translations
and adaptations in Old and Middle English’ (St
Anne’s College, Oxford)
The Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book supported the following and other events in
partnership with faculties, colleges, and research centres of the University in 2013-14
W/ Oxford e-Research Centre
21 October 2013
Prof. Antonio Sgamellotti (Perugia)
MOLAB: digital investigation of pre-
Columbian manuscripts
W/ Digital.Humanities@Oxford
14 July 2014
Bodleian books and manuscripts @ the
Digital Humanities Summer School
W/ Lincoln College
Greek Palaeography
Summer School
W/ TORCH
18 March 2014 ‘The Book of Fame’: An
interdisciplinary workshop showcasing manuscripts,
music, and artefacts from the Bodleian Library
W/ Faculty of Modern History
21 February 2014
‘The Lure of the Ether’ Jaume Navarro, Byrne
Bussey Marconi Symposium
W/ Merton College
21 May, Peter Blayney (Toronto)
‘Once upon a time there were three
Georges’ (with Merton College History
of the Book Group)
W/ Museum of the History of Science
10 June 2014
‘Time and emotion study,’ Michael
Weatherburn, Byrne Bussey Marconi Lecture
W/ St Antony’s College
2 June 2014
‘Pax Canadiana: Canada and the End of Britain’s
Empire, 1945-1982’
Asa McKercher, Royal Bank of Canada Visiting
Scholar
W/ Faculty of English Language and Literature
Podcasts by Adam Smyth, in conversation with book
historians
W/ Faculty of English Language and Literature
Symposium, Error and print culture
EXPLORING COLLECTIONS
Renée Raphael (UC Irvine) profiled and interpreted the
marginalia added by early modern Oxford professors to
books of science and mathematics in the library of the
Savilian Professors of Astronomy and Geometry (Savile
Collection).
Asa McKercher (Queen’s, Ontario) spoke about
and displayed papers from the Macmillan Archive
revealing British attitudes to Canada in postwar
diplomacy over decolonization, Suez, and
apartheid.
Katherine Larson (Toronto) spoke about and sang
extracts from the Bodleian’s early modern music
manuscripts.
Jaume Navarro (Ikerbasque) gathered historians of
science and literary scholars to examine the Marconi
Archive, and to consider how physics, art and
business influenced public understanding of ‘the
ether’ in the era of Einstein. Joshua Teplitsky (Oxford) traced the history of the
Bodleian’s important collection of Hebrew and
Yiddish printed books and manuscripts,
assembled by David Oppenheim (1664-1736).
Dorothy Kim (Vassar) and editors from the Archive
of Early Middle English described how they present
digital editions of medieval manuscripts from
Bodleian collections.
Sophie Ridley (St Hugh’s, Oxford) won the Colin
Franklin Prize for book collecting and helped the
Bodleian Rare Books Section to acquire several works
showing the history of handicrafts in the early 20th
century, her collecting passion.
Nicholas Allred (Rutgers) described a unique
scrapbook of patriotic songs made by a young
woman in 1805, now in the Harding Collection.
Orietta da Rold (Cambridge) showed how the origin
of a medieval manuscript, MS. Laud misc. 108,
might be discovered from the size and type of
parchment used.
Four speakers examined the Bodleian’s most important
Shakespeare collection, the library of bibliophile and
scholar Edmond Malone (1741-1812).
[Forthcoming special issue of the Bodleian Library
Record, Oct. 2015]
LECTURES IN BOOK HISTORY
21 May 2014
Guest lecture (with Merton College History
of the Book Group)
Peter Blayney (Toronto) ‘Once upon a
time there were three Georges’
20 February 2014
McKenzie Lecture (with the McKenzie
Trust)
Dr William Noel (University of
Pennsylvania)
Bibliography in bits: the study of books in
the twenty-first century
Hear an interview with William Noel
The 2014 Lyell Lectures (with the Faculty of
Modern History)
Professor H.R. Woudhuysen (Lincoln College)
'Almost Identical': Copying Books in England, 1600-
1900. 29 April – 13 May 2014
Lecture 1. ‘All my deed but copying is’: Bibliography
and the Cult of the Copy
Lecture 2. Making Defect Perfection: Maimed and
Deformed Books
Lecture 3. Engraving Manuscripts; Antiquarian
Reprints
Lecture 4. After Roxburghe: Scarcity and Supply
Lecture 5. Facsimiles, Forgeries, and Fakes
Henry Woudhuysen joins Adam Smyth to talk about
the history of facsimiles
MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
Classes supported with Bodleian Special
Collections material:
(Medieval Palaeography Seminars)
21 October 2013 Jean-Pascal Pouzet
(Limoges)
Describing codicological structures in western
medieval manuscripts
4 November 2013 Orietta Da Rold
(Cambridge) Codicology and Localization in
Medieval English Manuscripts; evidence from
MS. Laud misc.108
18 November 2013 David Rundle (Essex)
There and Back: travels between gothic and
humanist scripts in fifteenth-century England
> Read David Rundle’s blogpost on the
manuscripts of John Tiptoft
24 February 2014 Erik Kwakkel (Leiden)
master class on holster books
Digital scholarship workshop:
4 July 2014
Archive of Early Middle English
http://aeme.emesoc.org/
Day workshop with AEME editors and Bodleian Library
Digital Systems and Services, discussing the digital
editions of Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 108 (a
miscellany of Early Middle English texts, both
canonical and non-canonical) and Ms. Junius 1 (a
collection of Early Middle English homilies known
as The Ormulum)
Support for conference:
29-31 May 2014
Transforming Scripture: Biblical
translations and adaptations in
Old and Middle English (St Anne’s
College, Oxford)
ORIENTAL COLLECTIONS 6 March 2014
World Book Day: Display and lectures
The book of curiosities. Emilie Savage-Smith and Yosef
Rapoport, on the making of a facsimile of this 11th-century
Arabic manuscript
The 2014 Catherine Lewis Lectures
(with The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and
Jewish Studies)
A Universal Jewish Library? The Early Modern
Origins of the Bodleian Oppenheim
Collection
Dr Joshua Teplitsky (OCHJS/St Peter’s
College)
Tuesday 13 May: Aspiring to a collection
Tuesday 20 May: Collecting a reputation
Tuesday 27 May: Using a collection, losing a
collection
EARLY MODERN Classes supported with Bodleian Special
Collections material:
14 October 2013 Louisiane Ferlier (Oxford)
John Wallis and the idea of a universal
library
20 October 2013 Kasper Van Ommen
(Leiden): Annotated books from Joseph
Scaliger’s (1540-1609) library in the Bodleian
11 November 2013 Dunstan Roberts
(Cambridge) Henrician Sammelbände
22 November 2013 Katherine Larson
(Toronto / RSA-Bodleian Scholar), Embodying
Song in Early Modern England
4 December 2013 Nicole Gilroy and Andrew
Honey (Bodleian) Early modern bindings in
the Bodleian
12 June 2014 Renee Raphael (UC
Irvine/RSA-Bodleian Scholar)
How to read Galileo: examples from the
Savilian Library
Symposium
5 July 2014 Error and Print Culture, 1500-1800
Convened by Adam Smyth (Oxford)
Karina de la Garza-Gil (University of Cologne), ‘Ulrich Zell’s
Workshop: The House of Errors?’
Giles Bergel (Oxford), ‘The troubled birth of Sir William
Dugdale’s Antiquities of Warwickshire (1656)’
Claire Bolton, ‘In Praise of Errors’
Harry Newman (Kent), ‘[W]hat have we heere? … sure some
Scape’: Reading for Scapes, Faults and Slips in Shakespeare’s
The Winter’s Tale’
Eilidh Kane (Glasgow), ‘Corruption or Collaboration?:
Compositorial “Error” and the Creation of Meaning’
Emma Smith (Hertford, Oxford), ‘“Vouchsafe with your pen the
amendment of these few faults”: errors and correction in the
Shakespeare First Folio’
Alexandra de Costa (Newnham, Cambridge), ‘Negligence and
Virtue: Error in Early Evangelical Printing’
Piers Brown (Kenyon College), ‘Preliminary problems in
Thomas Coryat's Crudities’
Peter McCullough (Lincoln, Oxford), ‘Error in Donne's sermons’
Huub van der Linden (University College Roosevelt), ‘Errors
and corrections in Italian music prints: The Silvani firm in
Bologna (1696-1726)’
Simon Smith (Birkbeck, London), ‘Notation errors and musical
skill in printed music book paratexts’
Katherine Hunt (University of East Anglia), ‘Listening out for
error in print’
Support for conference:
2-3 July 2014, CEMS Conference 2014:
Scholarship, Science and Religion in the Age of
Isaac Casaubon and Henry Savile
18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES
Events supported with Bodleian Special Collections
material:
18 March 2014 The Book of Fame: An interdisciplinary
workshop showcasing manuscripts, music, and artefacts
from the Bodleian Library
(TORCH research group on 18th-century celebrity)
Dr Chris Fletcher (Keeper of Special Collections, Bodleian
Library): Rattles and Other Relics: Collecting and
Recollecting Shelley.
Dr Freya Johnston (English Faculty, Oxford): The
Celebrated Jane Austen: Appearance and Performance in
Volume the First.
Dr Ruth Scobie (TORCH, Oxford): Learning to Write with
Captain Cook
Lecture and display:
3 June 2014 Marie-Claude Felton (McGill
University / Royal Bank of Canada-Bodleian
Visiting Scholar) Self-Publishing in 18th-century
Paris and London [video podcast]
Symposium
30 September 2013
Edmond Malone’s collection and scholarship
Alan Coates (Bodleian)
Tiffany Stern (Oxford)
Marcus Walsh (Liverpool)
Nick Groom (Exeter)
Chair: James Loxley (Edinburgh)
See report, and Bodleian Library Record special
issue, forthcoming Oct 2015
26 May 2014 Nicholas Allred (Balliol-Bodley Fellow), ‘A
scrapbook of songs made by a young lady in Jane
Austen’s day’ [video]
20TH CENTURY AND CONTEMPORARY
2 June 2014
Pax Canadiana: Canada and the End of Britain’s Empire, 1945-1982
Asa McKercher, Royal Bank of Canada Visiting Scholar at the Bodleian Library,
talks about his research using Modern Political Papers collections in the
Bodleian Library. His research explores Canadian reactions to the demise of the
British imperial order, looking at Canadian foreign relations beyond the North
Atlantic.
The lecture was hosted by Margaret Macmillan, Warden of St Antony's College,
and presented in partnership with the North American Studies Programme at St
Antony’s College
10 June 2014
Byrne Bussey Marconi Lecture
Michael Weatherburn: 'Time and Emotion Study: Anne Shaw, Metropolitan
Vickers, and Work Experiments on the Twentieth Century British Factory Floor'
18 June 2014
Poetry, politics and war in the archives
(with the Institut Français, Oxford German Network, Maison Française, Fonds
Culturel Franco-Allemande)
The Directors and Curators of three world-famous archives (Bibliothèque
Nationale et Universitaire de Strasbourg, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach,
and Bodleian Libraries) describe key items from each archive related to WWI.
Participants are invited to discuss themes that emerge from all three
exhibitions: “August 1914: Literatur und Krieg”, “The Great War: Personal
Stories from Downing Street to the Trenches” and “1914. La Mort des Poètes”.
21 February 2014
Symposium: The Lure of the Ether
(Byrne Bussey Marconi Lecture and
Symposium, with Faculty of Modern
History)
Convened by Jaume Navarro
(Ikerbasque), Byrne Bussey Marconi
Fellow 2013
Imogen Clarke, 'The ether at the
crossroads of classical and modern
physics'
Jaume Navarro, 'Ether and wireless:
an old medium into new media'
Richard Noakes, 'The ethereal in
scientific cultures, 1880-1930'
Richard Staley, 'Einstein’s ether'
Michael Whitworth, 'Ether and its
Metaphors‘
27 January 2014
Modern Political Papers Seminar:
Anthony Seldon, ‘Writing about Prime
Ministers, from Cameron backwards’.
VISITING SCHOLARS 2013-14 Byrne-Bussey Marconi Fellows, 2013
Jaume Navarro (Universidad del País Vasco) A conceptual and cultural history of the demise of the ether
Michael Weatherburn (Imperial College) Workplace Experiments and Work Study in the British Electrical
Industry, c.1900-1950
Humfrey Wanley Fellows, 2013
Kasper Van Ommen (University of Leiden Library) Scaliger and Oxford: Early Modern Oriental collections
Jonathan Wainwright (University of York, Faculty of Music) A catalogue of the Music School collection of the
Bodleian Library
British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies / Bodleian Fellow, 2013
Rachel Schneider (University of Texas at Austin) Contesting Fragments: Print, Politics, and Graphic Design in
Eighteenth-Century England
The Dunscombe-Colt Research Fellow 2013 (The Georgian Group and BSECS)
Peter Lindfield (Post-Doctoral Tutor at the School of Art History, University of St Andrews and Visiting Lecturer,
Kunsthochschule, University of Kassel) Gothic Histories and Buildings of the Long Eighteenth Century
The Renaissance Society of America Bodleian Visiting Fellow, 2013
Katherine Larson (University of Toronto) Embodying Song in Early Modern England
Royal Bank of Canada-Bodleian Visiting Scholars
Marie-Claude Felton (McGill) Self-publishing in London in the 18th century
Asa McKercher (Queen’s University) Pax Canadiana: Canada and the end of Britain’s empire, 1945-1982
The Renaissance Society of America Bodleian Visiting Fellow, 2014
Renee Raphael (UC Irvine) Reading the New Science: Scholarly practices in 17th-century experimentation
and mathematics [the Savilian Library]
STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
The Colin Franklin Book Collecting Prize
28 October 2013: Lecture by Brooke Palmieri, 'Collectanomics‘
Prize winner: Sophie Ridley (3rd Year Archaeology and Anthropology, St
Hugh’s College,
Student-curated display: Valentine’s Day 2014
Leah Veronese-Clucas and Roland Walters (3rd Year
English, Hertford College)
LEARNING AND RESEARCH
22 May 2014
Mapping the British Book Trades
A one-day workshop proposing strategies for
linking online resources for the study of British
publishing and printing history. Convened by
Ian Gadd (Bath Spa) and Giles Bergel (Oxford)
Supported by a grant from the John Fell OUP
Research Fund
Bodleian printing workshop: courses in
hand-printing for University of Oxford
students, visiting courses, and families
14 July 2014
Bodleian @ the Digital Humanities Summer
School, Alexandra Franklin (Bodleian)
‘Digging into the Archaeology of the Book’
Greek Palaeography Summer School
at Lincoln College, Oxford