Bodleian Libraries

The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford form the largest university library system in the United Kingdom. They include the principal University library-the Bodleian Library-which has been a library of legal deposit for 400 years; major research libraries; and libraries attached to faculties, departments and other institutions of the University. The combined library collections number more than 11 million printed items, in addition to 30,000 e-journals and vast quantities of materials in other formats. The Old Bodleian is also a major visitor attraction, drawing over 300,000 visitors a year. More information about the Bodleian Libraries and their activities can be found at http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

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Title	Description	People	Date
Making machines: Mary Shelley and Ada Lovelace	Join our experts in conversation as they consider the thinking of two great 19th century women writers exploring the boundary between human and machine	Ursula Martin, Sharon Ruston, Helen Cook	21 June, 2022
Meet the pigments: the art and science of early English decoration	Discover how cutting-edge scientific techniques are transforming our understanding of medieval manuscripts, and how book production began to recover under King Alfred and his successors	Matthew Holford, Richard Gameson, Helen Cook	24 May, 2022
Assimilation or change? Normans at Winchester	The fifth lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2022 series delivered by Professor Susan Rankin (University of Cambridge)	Susan Rankin	24 May, 2022
From Neumes in campo aperto to Neumes on Lines (at Christchurch, Canterbury)	The forth lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2022 series delivered by Professor Susan Rankin (University of Cambridge)	Susan Rankin	16 May, 2022
St Augustine’s and Christchurch, 950–1091	The third lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2022 series delivered by Professor Susan Rankin (University of Cambridge)	Susan Rankin	16 May, 2022
‘L’ecriture Anglaise Dans Sa Perfection’	Professor Marc Smith, Professeur de Paléographie, The Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Paris delivers the 5th lecture in this years Lyell Lecture series	Marc Smith	9 May, 2022
A Community of Scribes at Worcester	The second lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2022 series delivered by Professor Susan Rankin (University of Cambridge)	Susan Rankin	9 May, 2022
Sound and its Capture in Anglo-Saxon England	The first lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2022 series delivered by Professor Susan Rankin (University of Cambridge)	Susan Rankin	9 May, 2022
North Sea Crossings: inside the exhibition	Discover the treasures that illustrate how exchanges between England and the Netherlands have shaped literature, book production and institutions such as the Bodleian itself, on either side of the North Sea.	Sjoerd Levelt, Ad Putter	14 April, 2022
Meet the Manuscripts: the Renaissance reform of the book	Dr Martin Holford and Dr David Rundle explore how the Italian Renaissance led to major changes in how manuscripts were made, written and decorated in England.	Martin Holford, David Rundle	14 April, 2022
Meet the Maps: Unconventional Views of Oxford	Focusing on four very different maps of Oxford - each of the maps has its own tale to tell, some showing Oxford as it was; others showing Oxford as it might have been; and others how Oxford never was.	Nick Millea, Stuart Ackland, Helen Cook	5 April, 2022
MS Ashmole 1504	Dating from around 1520 and probably conceived as a pattern book, this manuscript is best described as a 'herbal and bestiary' and contains images of flora and fauna together with stylised, floriated ornaments and coloured alphabets.	Martin Kauffmann, Helen Cook, Lynn Hulse	4 February, 2022

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