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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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Shaping legacies

2023/06/01

Lecture 5 of the 2023 Lyell lecture series A recent focus on practices and working methods in the history of science and of scholarship has revealed a gap between the representation that scholars worked alone, and the reality that their work was frequently carried out with the help of others. This lecture series will focus on the role of amanuenses (literary assistants) in scholarly work in early modern Europe, particularly the Northern Renaissance ca 1500–1630, while noting parallels with both earlier and later European contexts. Professor Ann M. Blair will focus on case studies including Erasmus, Martin Bucer, Adrien Turnèbe, and Petrus Ramus, among others to explore this recent research.

Complicating attributions

2023/06/01

Lecture 4 of the 2023 Lyell lecture series A recent focus on practices and working methods in the history of science and of scholarship has revealed a gap between the representation that scholars worked alone, and the reality that their work was frequently carried out with the help of others. This lecture series will focus on the role of amanuenses (literary assistants) in scholarly work in early modern Europe, particularly the Northern Renaissance ca 1500–1630, while noting parallels with both earlier and later European contexts. Professor Ann M. Blair will focus on case studies including Erasmus, Martin Bucer, Adrien Turnèbe, and Petrus Ramus, among others to explore this recent research.

Mechanical and intellectual

2023/06/01

Lecture 3 of the 2023 Lyell lecture series A recent focus on practices and working methods in the history of science and of scholarship has revealed a gap between the representation that scholars worked alone, and the reality that their work was frequently carried out with the help of others. This lecture series will focus on the role of amanuenses (literary assistants) in scholarly work in early modern Europe, particularly the Northern Renaissance ca 1500–1630, while noting parallels with both earlier and later European contexts. Professor Ann M. Blair will focus on case studies including Erasmus, Martin Bucer, Adrien Turnèbe, and Petrus Ramus, among others to explore this recent research.

Invisible and visible

2023/06/01

Lecture 2 of the 2023 Lyell lecture series A recent focus on practices and working methods in the history of science and of scholarship has revealed a gap between the representation that scholars worked alone, and the reality that their work was frequently carried out with the help of others. This lecture series will focus on the role of amanuenses (literary assistants) in scholarly work in early modern Europe, particularly the Northern Renaissance ca 1500–1630, while noting parallels with both earlier and later European contexts. Professor Ann M. Blair will focus on case studies including Erasmus, Martin Bucer, Adrien Turnèbe, and Petrus Ramus, among others to explore this recent research.

Amanuenses in the longue durée

2023/06/01

Lecture 1 of the 2023 Lyell lecture series A recent focus on practices and working methods in the history of science and of scholarship has revealed a gap between the representation that scholars worked alone, and the reality that their work was frequently carried out with the help of others. This lecture series will focus on the role of amanuenses (literary assistants) in scholarly work in early modern Europe, particularly the Northern Renaissance ca 1500–1630, while noting parallels with both earlier and later European contexts. Professor Ann M. Blair will focus on case studies including Erasmus, Martin Bucer, Adrien Turnèbe, and Petrus Ramus, among others to explore this recent research.

Assimilation or change? Normans at Winchester

2022/05/24

The fifth lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2022 series delivered by Professor Susan Rankin (University of Cambridge) From Memory to Written Record: English Liturgical Books and Musical Notations, 900–1150

From Neumes in campo aperto to Neumes on Lines (at Christchurch, Canterbury)

2022/05/16

The forth lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2022 series delivered by Professor Susan Rankin (University of Cambridge) From Memory to Written Record: English Liturgical Books and Musical Notations, 900–1150

St Augustine’s and Christchurch, 950–1091

2022/05/16

The third lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2022 series delivered by Professor Susan Rankin (University of Cambridge) From Memory to Written Record: English Liturgical Books and Musical Notations, 900–1150

‘L’ecriture Anglaise Dans Sa Perfection’

2022/05/09

Professor Marc Smith, Professeur de Paléographie, The Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Paris delivers the 5th lecture in this years Lyell Lecture series

A Community of Scribes at Worcester

2022/05/09

The second lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2022 series delivered by Professor Susan Rankin (University of Cambridge) From Memory to Written Record: English Liturgical Books and Musical Notations, 900–1150

Sound and its Capture in Anglo-Saxon England

2022/05/09

The first lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2022 series delivered by Professor Susan Rankin (University of Cambridge) From Memory to Written Record: English Liturgical Books and Musical Notations, 900–1150

The serpentine text of the Gutenberg Bible

2021/10/25

The fifth lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2021 series delivered by Paul Needham, Princeton The Genesis, Life, and Afterlife of the Gutenberg Bible