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Lyell Lectures

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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]

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  1. ^ The Lyell Lectures.
  2. ^ R. W. Hunt, ‘The Lyell bequest’, Bodleian Library Record, 3 (1950–51), 68–72.
  3. ^ "The Lyell and McKenzie Lectures". Centre for the Study of the Book, Bodleian Libraries. 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
  4. ^ McKitterick, David. 1983. The Sandars and Lyell Lectures : A Checklist with an Introduction. New York: Jonathan A. Hill.
  5. ^ Bowman, J.H. (1 October 2012). British Librarianship and Information Work 2001–2005. Ashgate. p. 157. ISBN 978-1-4094-8506-3.
  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. ^ McKitterick, David. 1982.Review. “[Rezension Von:] Masson, André: The Pictorial Catalogue : Mural Decoration in Libraries. - Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1981.” The Book Collector 31 (no 3) Autumn 1982: 382-283.
  9. ^ "The Author as Editor."The Book Collector 41 (no 1) Spring, 1992:9-27.
  10. ^ "Robert Shackleton." The Book Collector 35 (no 4) Winter 1986" 517-518.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ Johnston, Freya. 2005. “Scenic Particulars.” The Cambridge Quarterly 34 (2): 196–99.
  14. ^ "Libraries, Space, and Power — Lyell Lectures 2017". Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  15. ^ 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.