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