From time to time the Society awards a Gold Medal for distinguished services to bibliography to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the development of the subject and the furtherance of the Society’s aims. Over forty awards have been made since the Medal Fund was established in 1929 [...]
Fragmentarium: Laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments Inspired by the Council’s Choice for January 2025 (Digital Scriptorium), I would like to highlight another online resource for the study of medieval manuscript culture. Fragmentarium, begun as a trial project in 2015, is a consortial portal and database that ‘enables libraries, collectors, researchers [...]
On Thursday, 27 February, at 17.00 GMT, the Bibliographical Society travels virtually to visit the library at St Catherine’s Monastery, Mt Sinai. The virtual visit will take place on Zoom and will comprise a pre-recorded introduction to the library and its collections, followed by live discussion and Q&A. Our host [...]
Seized Books! An online exhibition. I am delighted to recommend the Seized Books online exhibition, even if it may seem a shameless opportunity to promote my own institution, Senate House Library. Senate House Library was bequeathed the collection of Jonathan Cutbill (1937-2019), one of the founder members of Gays the [...]
Mon 17th February 2025 6:30PM Join Middle Temple Library and Ana Sáez-Hidalgo for a fascinating virtual library tour of the Library of Royal English College of St Alban in Valladolid, led by its rector, Fr. John Flyn, and its librarian, Blanca Mateo. This will be followed by a talk about [...]
What does it mean to think about matter and materiality through the medium of letterpress printing? We invite scholars of matter, materiality and/or material culture (broadly conceived) in any discipline, and at any career stage (including graduate students), to apply to our 2025 summer school: Print Matters. Supported by the [...]
Digital Scriptorium As a new Council member, I’d like to highlight the Digital Scriptorium as an increasingly indispensable portal into North American repositories of medieval and early modern manuscripts. It has the potential to become a national union catalogue, with 15,000 records from 37 member institutions’ collections currently available and [...]
Book fittings recorded on the Portable Antiquities Database My Presidential Address to the Bibliographical Society earlier this year (19 March 2024) included details of the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) database: https://finds.org.uk/ My intention was to draw attention to this well designed and enormous database which might offer suggestions of how [...]
The Koopman Collection at the KB, The Hague Anyone interested in the French illustrated book or in modern artist’s books will enjoy the online presentation of the Koopman Collection at the KB, the National Library of the Netherlands: https://collecties.kb.nl/en/koopman-collection With a focus on French literature and the book arts from [...]
Tickets are now available for the 2024 Panizzi Lecture Series which will take place at the British Library and online in December. This year's series, Black Bibliography, Here and Now, will be delivered by Elizabeth McHenry, Professor of English at New York University. In the course of her three lectures, Professor McHenry will [...]
The Bibliographical Society has for many years kept up a web page of additions and corrections to Julian Roberts and Andrew G. Watson’s edition of John Dee’s Library Catalogue, published by the Society in 1990. The original list of additions was maintained by Julian Roberts. A new list was established following [...]
AALT: Digitised documents from medieval and early modern England The website of the Anglo-American Legal Tradition (http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT.html) is the result of a collaboration between the University of Houston Law Center in the US and The National Archives (TNA) in the UK, which was first drawn up in 2006. Its aim [...]
