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| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reading Beyond the Code | A Book at Lunchtime Seminar with Terrence Cave, Deirdre Wilson, Ben Morgan (Worcester College, Oxford), Professor Robyn Carston (Linguistics, UCL). Chaired by Professor Philip Bullock (TORCH Director). | Terrence Cave, Deirdre Wilson, Ben Morgan, Robyn Carston | 14 Dec 2018 | |
| 2 | The Lyell Lectures 2018: Book Ownership in Stuart England: 'Books for the common man' | David Pearson, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2017-18 and Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London gives the fourth Lyell lecture on 3rd May 2018. | David Pearson | 11 Jun 2018 | |
| 3 | The Lyell Lectures 2018: Book Ownership in Stuart England: 'Women and books in the 17th century' | David Pearson, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2017-18 and Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London gives the third Lyell lecture on 1st May 2018. | David Pearson | 11 Jun 2018 | |
| 4 | The Lyell Lectures 2018: Book Ownership in Stuart England: 'Setting the scene: Trends and patterns' | David Pearson, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2017-18 and Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London, gives the first of the 2018 Lyell lectures on Tuesday 24 April 2018. | David Pearson | 11 Jun 2018 | |
| 5 | Teaching the Codex 5: Teaching Music Palaeography 2 | Margaret Bent (Oxford) speaks at the 2017 Teaching the Codex Colloquium about music palaeography in the classroom. | Margaret Bent | 10 Apr 2018 | |
| 6 | Digital Typography - Did you mean incurable? Searching and Finding Incunabula in the World Wide Web | Dr Falk Eisermann (Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, Staatsbibliothek, Berlin), gives a talk for the History of the Book Seminar series on 9th March 2018. | Falk Eisermann | 13 Mar 2018 | |
| 7 | History of Art - The De Spira Brothers vrs. Nicolaus Jenson, 1469-1472: A Rivalry Traced through Hand-illuminated Copies of their Editions | Professor Lilian Armstrong (Wellesley College) gives a talk for the History of the Book seminar series on 2nd March 2018. | Lilian Armstrong | 06 Mar 2018 | |
| 8 | Trade - Merchants' books of Venice and Florence | Dr Irene Ceccherini (Lyell-Bodleian Research Fellow in Manuscript Studies, Bodleian Library, Dilts Research Fellow in Palaeography, Lincoln College, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the Seminar in the History of the Book on 9th February 2017. | Irene Ceccherini | 23 Feb 2018 | |
| 9 | Early Modern Publishing Policies - Andreas Frisius of Amsterdam and the search for a niche market, 1664-75 | Professor Ian Maclean (All Souls College), gives the third seminar in the History of the Book series, looking at the early modern period publishing policies in Europe on February 2nd, 2018. | Ian Maclean | 23 Feb 2018 | |
| 10 | Arabic - Scrolls into codices: Jilyani's picture-poems for Saladin | Professor Julia Bray (Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the new series for the Centre for the Study of the Book. | Julia Bray | 23 Feb 2018 | |
| 11 | Numismatics - Coins, Money and Prices in Renaissance Italy | Dr Alan Stahl (Curator of Numismatics, Princeton University) gives a talk in the new Centre for the Study of the Book Seminar series. | Alan Stahl | 23 Feb 2018 | |
| 12 | Creative Commons | Trade - Merchants' books of Venice and Florence | Dr Irene Ceccherini (Lyell-Bodleian Research Fellow in Manuscript Studies, Bodleian Library, Dilts Research Fellow in Palaeography, Lincoln College, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the Seminar in the History of the Book on 9th February 2017. | Irene Ceccherini | 16 Feb 2018 |
| 13 | Early Modern Publishing Policies - Andreas Frisius of Amsterdam and the search for a niche market, 1664-75 | Professor Ian Maclean (All Souls College), gives the third seminar in the History of the Book series, looking at the early modern period publishing policies in Europe on February 2nd, 2018. | Ian Maclean | 06 Feb 2018 | |
| 14 | Arabic - Scrolls into codices: Jilyani's picture-poems for Saladin | Professor Julia Bray (Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the new series for the Centre for the Study of the Book. | Julia Bray | 29 Jan 2018 | |
| 15 | Numismatics - Coins, Money and Prices in Renaissance Italy | Dr Alan Stahl (Curator of Numismatics, Princeton University) gives a talk in the new Centre for the Study of the Book Seminar series. | Alan Stahl | 29 Jan 2018 | |
| 16 | Making Third Stream Books in the Post-digital Age | Russell Maret talks about the development of the primary themes of his artist's books - alphabet design, colour printing, and geometric form, also the influences of history and technology on his methods and subject matter. | Russell Maret | 08 Dec 2017 | |
| 17 | Seeing is Believing: Computer vision and machine learning for image collections | Giles Bergel gives a talk on using new technologies to understand the history of books and printing. | Giles Bergel | 05 Jul 2017 | |
| 18 | 15cBOOKTRADE: The visualization of the circulation of books over time and space and image-searching tool: how we got there | Cristina Dondi and Matilde Malaspina of the 15C BOOKTRADE project, give a talk for the 2017 DHOXSS. | Cristina Dondi, Matilde Malaspina | 04 Jul 2017 | |
| 19 | Creative Commons | Unsilencing the library: An exhibition at Compton Verney | Research into how books make us feel. | Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Sophie Ratcliffe, Steven Parissien | 23 Jun 2017 |
| 20 | Law: Printing the Corpus iuris civilis in the Sixteenth Century | Professor Rodolfo Savelli, Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza, Università di Genova, gives a talk for the 15th Century Booktrade series on 10th March 2017. | Rodolfo Savelli | 13 Mar 2017 | |
| 21 | Manuscript Studies: Greek Script and Type in the Fifteenth century. Demetrius Damilas between Milan and Florence | Nigel Wilson, fellow of Lincoln College, reads a lecture written by Dr David Speranzi, Firenze, Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento. Dr Speranzi was unable to attend the recording of this lecture so Nigel Wilson read in his absence. | David Speranzi, Nigel Wilson | 28 Feb 2017 | |
| 22 | Economics: The Price of Books in Early Modern Europe: An Economic Perspective | Dr Jeremiah Dittmar, Department of Economics, London School of Economics, gives a talk on 10th February 2017. | Jeremiah Dittmar | 22 Feb 2017 | |
| 23 | Classics: Incunabular Stemmatics, | Professor Stephen Oakley, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge University, gives a talk for the 15th Century Booktrade series on 3rd February 2017. | Stephen Oakley | 22 Feb 2017 | |
| 24 | Modelos cursivos y aprendizaje de la escritura en la Corona de Castilla en el siglo XV (in Spanish) | Carmen del Camino (Seville), gives a talk The unskilled scribe: Elementary hands and their place in the history of handwriting, a seminar held on 30th September 2016. | Carmen del Camino | 14 Oct 2016 | |
| 25 | Scritture umanistiche elementari (in Italian) | Teresa De Robertis (Florence), gives a talk for The unskilled scribe: Elementary hands and their place in the history of handwriting, a seminar held on 30th September 2016. | Teresa De Robertis | 14 Oct 2016 | |
| 26 | Hands turned to stone: some unconventional attempts at inscriptional lettering | Marc Smith (Paris), gives a talk for The unskilled scribe: Elementary hands and their place in the history of handwriting, a seminar held on 30th September 2016. | Marc Smith | 14 Oct 2016 | |
| 27 | Introduction to The unskilled scribe | Irene Ceccherini (Oxford) gives a talk for the unskilled scribe: Elementary hands and their place in the history of handwriting, a seminar held on 30th September 2016. | Irene Ceccherini | 14 Oct 2016 | |
| 28 | Elementary cursive handwriting in English and Scottish Charters, 1150-1250 | Teresa Webber (Cambridge), gives a talk in the The unskilled scribe: Elementary hands and their place in the history of handwriting, held on September 30th 2016. | Teresa Webber | 14 Oct 2016 | |
| 29 | Launch of the 15th Century Booktrade | Cristina Dondi and her colleagues launch the 15th Century Booktrade. | Cristina Dondi, Kristian Jensen, Geri Della Rocca de Candal, Simon Walton | 21 Jul 2016 | |
| 30 | Creative Commons | An Evidence-based Assessment and Visualization of the Distribution, Sale, and Reception of Books in the Renaissance | Cristina Dondi, (Modern Languages, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the 2016 Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School. | Cristina Dondi | 08 Jul 2016 |
| 31 | Creative Commons | Imaging Beyond the Institution: How DIY Digitization Impacts Research | Judith Siefring, (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the 2016 Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School. | Judith Siefring | 06 Jul 2016 |
| 32 | Marks on canvas, stone, wood and paper: the Genius of the Bodleian Portrait Collection | Dana Josephson gives a talk for the Marks of Genius Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries series. | Dana Josephson | 08 Jul 2015 | |
| 33 | New Sappho and new libraries | Fourth Lunchtime lecture accompanying the exhibition Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries. With Dr Dirk Obbink. | Dirk Obbink | 19 May 2015 | |
| 34 | Four centuries of Chinese book collecting | Third Lunchtime lecture accompanying the exhibition Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries. With Mr David Helliwell. | David Helliwell | 19 May 2015 | |
| 35 | The Trade in Printed Books: an ingenious innovation that changed the Western World | Second in the Marks of Genius series, with Dr Christina Dondi | Christina Dondi | 19 May 2015 | |
| 36 | Proliferating Images: Diagrams of the Slave Ship Brookes (1789) | Professor Michael Suarez traces the transatlantic journey of a famous image deployed against the slave trade. | Michael Suarez | 18 May 2015 | |
| 37 | Creative Commons | Special Lecture: Art, Architects, Books and Buildings: Sir Robert Taylor & his Collection at the Taylor Institution | A collaborative venture between the University of Oxford's Edgar Wind Society and the Taylor Institution Library, this lecture discusses Sir Robert Taylor and his collection of architectural books & included a display of selected items from the collection | Matthew Walker, Gervase Rosser | 17 Sep 2014 |
| 38 | Creative Commons | Self-publishing in 18th-century Paris and London | Marie-Claude Felton, Royal Bank of Canada-Bodleian Visiting Scholar, gives a talk for the Bodleian Library BODcasts series | Marie-Claude Felton | 05 Jun 2014 |
| 39 | Book as Object; Panel Discussion for Oxford English Graduate Conference 2013 | Panel discussion talk on 'Book as Object' for the Oxford English Graduate Conference 2013. | Paul Nash, Nick Cross, Stephen Walter | 17 Jun 2013 | |
| 40 | The Hobbit at the Bodleian: World Book Day 2010 | Judith Priestman, curator of literary manuscripts at the Bodleian library, discusses the World Book Day 2010 Tolkien exhibition, at which a selection of J.R.R. Tolkien's original artwork for The Hobbit, was on display to the public. | Judith Priestman | 22 May 2013 | |
| 41 | Creative Commons | Brought to Book: Book History and the Idea of Literature | Professor Paul Eggert, University of New South Wales, gives the 17th Annual D.F. McKenzie lecture on the subject of books and gives a case study of Henry Lawson, Australian author of Where the Billy Boils. | Paul Eggert | 09 Mar 2011 |
| 42 | Creative Commons | Brought to Book: Book History and the Idea of Literature | Professor Paul Eggert, University of New South Wales, gives the 17th Annual D.F. McKenzie lecture on the subject of books and gives a case study of Henry Lawson, Australian author of Where the Billy Boils. | Paul Eggert | 09 Mar 2011 |
| 43 | The infinitely expanding universe of memory; books, manuscript...pixels | Part of the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Bodley's Librarian Dr Sarah Thomas in conversation with Dr Alice Prochaska, Principal of Somerville, discussing the 'infinitely expanding universe of memory' and collections in the digital age. | Sarah Thomas, Alice Prochaska | 30 Nov 2010 | |
| 44 | Creative Commons | Conclusion to Crossing Borders | The conclusion to the Crossing Borders exhibition. The exhibition tells the story of how Jews, Christians and Muslims have contributed to the development of the book. | Piet van Boxel | 10 May 2010 |
| 45 | Creative Commons | Sciences | Piet looks at how the works of famous ancient thinkers such as Aristotle, Hippocrates, Euclid or Ptolemy traveled from culture to culture and formed the basis of Muslim, Christian and Jewish science and philosophy alike. | Piet van Boxel | 10 May 2010 |
| 46 | Creative Commons | User-produced Hebrew Prayer Books and Shared Iconography | Some Hebrew manuscripts were produced in Christian workshops, others were made by Jewish artists themselves for their own use. Piet looks at examples of these and explores the shared iconography between Christian and Jewish faiths, such as the unicorn. | Piet van Boxel | 10 May 2010 |
| 47 | Creative Commons | Hebrew Prayer Books for Public Use | Piet looks at the three great Bodleian mahzorim (large and elaborately decorated prayer books for the festivals), which were illuminated by Christian painters in collaboration with and under the supervision of Jewish scribes. | Piet van Boxel | 10 May 2010 |
| 48 | Creative Commons | Arabic Art Forms in Spanish Book Production | Piet explains Arabic design and illustration in Spanish books, looking in particular at the Kennicott Bible, produced in La Coruna, Spain, in 1476. | Piet van Boxel | 10 May 2010 |
| 49 | Creative Commons | From Roll to Codex | Piet explains codices, the oldest manuscripts in book form, looking in particular at a fragment of the Hebrew text of the book of Ecclesiasticus (ch. 40) from the Cairo Genizah, and the four Gospels in Syriac. | Piet van Boxel | 06 May 2010 |
| 50 | Creative Commons | Introduction to Crossing Borders | An introduction to the Crossing Borders exhibition. The exhibition tells the story of how Jews, Christians and Muslims have contributed to the development of the book. | Piet van Boxel | 06 May 2010 |
| 51 | Pre-1500 Printed Books | The earliest printers spread from Mainz in Germany where Gutenberg first had his printing house to Venice, Rome, Paris, and the Netherlands. Examples from all of these centres of 15th-century printing are found in Bodleian collections. | Paul Nash | 05 Mar 2010 | |
| 52 | Gutenberg and the digital revolution | Bodley's head librarian, Sarah Thomas, talks about the history of the Bodleian Library and the changes that are taking place within it, particularly the digitisation project -creating electronic digital versions of books- currently underway. | Sarah Thomas | 28 Oct 2009 |