Lyell Lectures

The Lyell readership in bibliography at Oxford University is endowed by a bequest from James Patrick Ronaldson Lyell (1871-1948), a solicitor, book collector and bibliographer. Each year since 1952, a distinguished scholar has been elected to deliver the lectures, usually six in number, on any topic of bibliography, broadly conceived.
J.P.R. Lyell lived in Oxford and (on his retirement) in Abingdon from 1927 until the end of his life. Even as a young man he was interested in collecting early printed books, and he made a study of early book illustration in Spain. In the 1930s he began collecting medieval manuscripts, eventually accumulating some 250 of these, of which one hundred were bequeathed to the Bodleian Library. A further series of some 65 manuscripts, mostly post-medieval, were bought by the Library from his executors. The first Lyell lectures, for the academic year 1952-3, were delivered by Neil R. Ker, university reader in palaeography and fellow of Magdalen College.

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Episode	Description	People	Date
Some generalizations about the shape and geographical spread of Latin textual traditions	Episode 4 of the Lyell lectures 2024 delivered by Professor Stephen Oakley.	Stephen Oakley	20 June, 2024
What happens when incunables replace manuscripts?	Episode 4 of the Lyell lectures 2024 delivered by Professor Stephen Oakley.	Stephen Oakley	20 June, 2024
Cross-fertilization and the limits of the genealogical method: the case of Catullus	Episode 3 of the Lyell lectures 2024 delivered by Professor Stephen Oakley.	Stephen Oakley	20 June, 2024
The transmission of the Corpus Cyprianum and Pontius’ Life of Cyprian	Episode 2 of the Lyell lectures 2024 delivered by Professor Stephen Oakley.	Stephen Oakley	20 June, 2024
The transmission of Julius Caesar’s Civil War	Episode 1 of the Lyell lectures 2024 delivered by Professor Stephen Oakley.	Stephen Oakley	18 June, 2024
Shaping legacies	Lecture 5 of the 2023 Lyell lecture series	Ann M Blair	1 June, 2023
Complicating attributions	Lecture 4 of the 2023 Lyell lecture series	Ann M Blair	1 June, 2023
Mechanical and intellectual	Lecture 3 of the 2023 Lyell lecture series	Ann M Blair	1 June, 2023
Invisible and visible	Lecture 2 of the 2023 Lyell lecture series	Ann M Blair	1 June, 2023
Amanuenses in the longue durée	Lecture 1 of the 2023 Lyell lecture series	Ann M Blair	1 June, 2023
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
The serpentine text of the Gutenberg Bible	The fifth lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2021 series delivered by Paul Needham, Princeton	Paul Needham	25 October, 2021
Fifteenth-century Latin Bible printing and distribution	The fourth lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2021 series delivered by Paul Needham, Princeton	Paul Needham	19 October, 2021
The Texts of the Gutenberg Bible; the case of 4 Ezra	The third lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2021 series delivered by Paul Needham, Princeton	Paul Needham	19 October, 2021
Latin Bible-writing in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; the Gutenberg Bible workshop	The second lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2021 series delivered by Paul Needham, Princeton	Paul Needham	18 October, 2021
The Christian Latin Bible from its origins to the 13th-century Paris Bible	The first lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2021 series delivered by Paul Needham, Princeton	Paul Needham	18 October, 2021
The Golden Age of French Writing Masters?	Professor Marc Smith, Professeur de Paléographie, The Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Paris delivers the 4th lecture in this years Lyell Lecture series	Marc Smith	9 October, 2020
Renaissance Calligraphy from Pen to Press and Back	Professor Marc Smith, Professeur de Paléographie, The Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Paris delivers the 3rd lecture in this years Lyell Lecture series	Marc Smith	6 October, 2020
Bibliography and the Life Cycles of Writing Books	The 2nd lecture in the 2020 series delivered by Professor Marc Smith, Professeur de Paléographie, The Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Paris	Marc Smith	1 October, 2020
Writing Models and the Formation of National Scripts	The first lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2020 series delivered by Professor Marc Smith - Professeur de Paléographie, The Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2020	Marc Smith, Richard Ovenden	29 September, 2020

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