AGORHA: connecting book and art history The online portal AGORHA, developed by the Institut national d’histoire de l’art, comprises a suite of thematic databases bringing together digitised documents, archival sources, and biographical records relating to individuals, collections, and institutions in France. Although AGORHA is not conceived primarily as a tool [...]
The Catalog of Distinctive Type (1660-1700) If, like me, you spend a lot of time worrying about who printed what in later seventeenth-century England, then the Catalog of Distinctive Type (CDT), compiled by Christopher Warren and Sam Lemley of Carnegie Mellon University, will be an invaluable resource. It has long [...]
Join judges and winners for this behind-the-scenes look at book collecting prizes. In this event we will discuss what makes a good collection, how to craft a winning entry, and how to avoid potential pitfalls in the process. Two prize judges (Anke Timmermann, Cambridge Rose Prize, and Jeremy Carson, PBFA [...]
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain In the spirit of the renewed year, one renewed Bodleian resource is sure to delight those interested in medieval libraries: the newly re-released Medieval Libraries of Great Britain database. MLGB, as it is now commonly known, aims to list every manuscript and printed book associated [...]
Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art (BASIRA) Visitors to museums, galleries, libraries and churches may have observed that books appear frequently in medieval and Renaissance art. Paintings, sculptures and stained glass provide insights into how books were used, but also how they were perceived. Depictions of books within books have [...]
The (Partial) Return of the Bodleian Broadside Ballads Something about broadside ballads has recommended them as subjects for digital resources. As popular, ephemeral publications they have always promised to yield more in the aggregate than singly, while the apparent simplicity of digitizing a broadside, a single sheet printed on one side [...]
The Bibliographical Society is sad to learn of the recent death of Professor Michael Twyman, emeritus Professor of Typography at the University of Reading. Professor Twyman was awarded the Society's Gold Medal in 2021. For a list of the Society's Gold Medallists, see https://bibsoc.org.uk/about/gold-medallists/.
The Bibliographical Society is pleased to announce the publication of a new e-resource: Benjamin Wardhaugh, Ancient Greek Mathematics in print, 1475–1703. This can be downloaded as a PDF file from https://bibsoc.org.uk/ancient-greek-mathematics/. For other electronic publications by the Society, see Bibliographical Society e-Publications.
The Bibliographical Society is delighted to announce that two new members have been elected to the Society’s Outreach sub-committee. The sub-committee was established to promote the Society and bibliography through activities catering to a variety of audiences, in addition to our regular monthly lectures and summer visit. To gain fresh [...]
Shakespeare portal There is no paucity of Shakespeare bibliography but, even if you are fully immersed in the field, you may still find one e-resource useful as a portal bringing together a lot of information and providing easy avenues for further research. It is the Shakespeare Census, edited by Adam [...]
The Bibliographical Society is sad to learn of the death of James Mosley, former Librarian of St Bride Library (1958–2000). He was the recipient of the Society's Gold Medal in 2017 and a signifcant historian of letterpress printing and its equipment.
At our last Council meeting of the academic year we were very pleased to receive the report of the Committee which meets every year or two to consider the award of the Society’s Gold Medal. We are delighted to report that the Gold Medal will be awarded this year to [...]
