15cHEBRAICA: Capturing the former owners of Hebrew incunabula and their annotations in the Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database
Marco Bertagna gives a talk for the History of the Book seminar series on 1st March 2019.
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History of the Book 2017
The History of the Book and Cultural History, History of Art, Classics, Economics, Manuscript studies, Theology, and Law. Oxford, Weston Library, Visiting Scholars’ Centre (VSC) – Hilary Ter...
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15 episodesScottish and British Authors Published Abroad 1470-1700
Jane Stevenson, Senior research Fellow, Campion Hall, Oxford, gives a talk fo the History of the Book seminar series on 1st February 2019.
Bumble-Bee Witches and the Reading of Dreams: Spectacular and Speculative Marginalia in a Renaissance Reader’s Montaigne
Earle Havens (Johns Hopkins), gives the first talk in the new term for the Centre for the Study of the Book on Friday 18th January 2019.
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...
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.
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...
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 pub...
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...
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.
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...
Theology: The Gutenberg Bible in the Context of Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Bibles
Dr Paul Needham, Scheide Library, Princeton University Library gives a talk for the 15th Century Booktrade series on 3rd March 2017.
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...
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.
Classics: Incunabular Stemmatics,
Professor Stephen Oakley, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge University, gives a talk for the 15th Century Booktrade series on 3rd February 2017...
The Italian Trade with the Frankfurt Book Fair around 1600
The History of the Book and Cultural History with Professor Ian Maclean, All Souls College, Oxford on 20th January 2017.