Lyell Lectures Explained

The Lyell Readership in Bibliography is an endowed annual lecture series given at the University of Oxford. Instituted in 1952 by a bequest from the solicitor, book collector and bibliographer, James Patrick Ronaldson Lyell.[1] After Lyell's death, Keeper of the Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library, Richard William Hunt, writing of the Lyell bequest noted, "he was a self-taught bibliophile and scholar of extraordinary enthusiasm and discrimination, and one who deserves to be remembered not only by Oxford but by the whole bibliographical world."[2]

The series has continued down to the present day.[3] [4]

Together with the Panizzi Lectures at the British Library and the Sandars Lectures at Cambridge University, it is considered one of the major British bibliographical lecture series.[5]

Lectures

See also

Notes and References

  1. https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/the-lyell-lectures The Lyell Lectures
  2. R. W. Hunt, ‘The Lyell bequest’, Bodleian Library Record, 3 (1950–51), 68–72.
  3. Web site: The Lyell and McKenzie Lectures . Centre for the Study of the Book, Bodleian Libraries . 2016 . 23 Dec 2016 .
  4. McKitterick, David. 1983. The Sandars and Lyell Lectures : A Checklist with an Introduction. New York: Jonathan A. Hill.
  5. Book: Bowman, J.H. . British Librarianship and Information Work 2001–2005 . 1 Oct 2012 . Ashgate . 978-1-4094-8506-3 . 157.
  6. Foot, Mirjam M. "Who Planted the Trees? Pioneers in the Development of Bookbinding History, Part 2: Graham Pollard. The Book Collector 71 no. 4 (Winter 2022):654-662.
  7. Carter, Harry. A View of Early Typography Up to About 1600. 1969. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  8. "The Author as Editor."The Book Collector 41 (no 1) Spring, 1992:9-27.
  9. "Robert Shackleton." The Book Collector 35 (no 4) Winter 1986" 517-518.
  10. Beal, Peter, and Oxford University Press. 1998. In Praise of Scribes : Manuscripts and Their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England. Oxford, New York: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press.
  11. Graham, Timothy. “Their Hands before Our Eyes: A Closer Look at Scribes.” Speculum. NEW YORK: Cambridge University Press, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0038713410000606.
  12. Web site: Libraries, Space, and Power — Lyell Lectures 2017 . Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford . 2017 . 26 Apr 2017 .
  13. Based on his Lyell Lectures: Sharpe, Richard. 2023. Libraries and Books in Medieval England : The Role of Libraries in a Changing Book Economy. Edited by James M. W. Willoughby. Oxford: Bodleian Library Publishing.