THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
Session 2001 - 2002
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Programme for the session 2001 - 2002
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Tuesday 16 October 2001, 5.30 pm
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will be held at Dr Johnson's House, 17 Gough Square, London EC4. This will not be preceded by tea, but wine will be available after the meeting.
Following the business of the meeting, members will be given a brief introduction to the House and its Library by the Curator, NATASHA McENROE.
Tuesday 20 November 2001
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Index
- Pamela Robinson
- Dated and Datable Manuscripts in London.
The paper will discuss the work of the international project to compile catalogues of dated and datable manuscripts written in the Latin alphabet up to 1600, and recent work in London libraries.At the beginning of this meeting, the Society's Gold Medal for Distinguished Services to Bibliography will be presented to PROFESSOR ANDREW WATSON
Tuesday 18 December 2001
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Index
- Simon Eliot
- "So many novelties always in hand":
John Camden Hotten as a playful publisher.
Tuesday 15 January 2002
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Index
- Frederick Bearman
- Medieval Italian business books
the beginnings of a binding tradition.
Tuesday 19 February 2002
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Index
- Julia Boffey and Tony Edwards
- Creating a new Index of Middle English Verse:
an examination of bibliographical and textual issues and of the discoveries to be incorporated
Tuesday 19 March 2002
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Index
- Liudmila Sharipova
- The library of the Kiev Mohyla Academy: the surviving books evidence.
The history of a library attached to an ecclesiastical educational foundation in Kiev, founded in 1632 and destroyed by fire in 1780, with an examination of its impact on the formation of the Ukranian intellectual milieu of the time.
Tuesday 23 April 2002
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Index
- Martin Davies
- Where are the books of the Duke of Urbino?
The manuscripts of the great condottiere Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino (d.1482) remain entire in the Vatican Library but, despite the myth propagated by Vespasiano da Bisticci, he also owned printed books. Where are they now?
The Presidential Address
The Homee Randeria LectureTuesday 21 May 2001
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Index
- Mirjam Foot
- "A magnificent and bewildering variety":
Irish bookbinding in the eighteenth century.
Details will be announced in The Library for March 2002.
VenuesAll meetings will be held in the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre of University College, Gower Street, London WC1, beginning at 6.00p.m.
Tea will be served in the South Cloisters of University College (main building) at 5.15 p.m. Members are always welcome to bring guests, both to meetings and to the tea beforehand.
The AGM will take place place at Dr Johnson's House on 16 October at 5.30; this will not be preceded by tea, but wine will be available after the meeting.
DAVID PEARSON
Hon. Secretary
PANIZZI LECTURES
The seventeenth series of Panizzi lectures will be given by Mr Nicolas Barker on "Things not reveal'd": idea and form in poetry.The lectures will take place on Wednesday 14 November, Wednesday 21 November and Wednesday 28 November 2001 at 6.15 p.m. in the Conference Centre of the British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB.
All are welcome to attend, but tickets (free) must be obtained in advance from the British Library Box Office (phone 020-7412-7332; email boxoffice@bl.uk).
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