Panel for grant recipients 2025
18 November @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, London
Before the meeting, the Society’s Gold Medal will be presented to Dr David Shaw.
Elvira Miceli, ‘Reapproaching the Liber ad honorem Augusti (Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 120 II) from the Cava Archive’
This talk will present preliminary findings from research at the medieval archive of Cava de’ Tirreni, using them to reconsider the palaeography of a major late twelfth-century codex and broader trends in contemporary book production.
Christian Algar, ‘The reassembly, analysis and appraisal of John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870): rare book collector; savant; scholar; slave owner’
This talk will discuss the identification and tracking of incunabula and early printed books collected and used by this intriguing yet neglected nineteenth-century figure and how examining the associated biographical and social circumstances is vital for an expanding book history.
Xinyi Wen, ‘Extra-illustrating early modern natural history’
This talk will examine how and why naturalists extra-illustrated their books between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries.