Andrew Dunning has reported that the manuscript Book of St Albans (Trinity College Dublin, MS 177) was once in Dee's possession.
It is apparently not recorded in his library catalogue.
1:45 pm, 6 June 2019 to 1:45 pm, 8 June 2019
University College, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT
This symposium brings together a group of UK-based academics and librarians, as well as key Continental scholars, in an attempt to consolidate current research, for the first time, on seventeenth-century libraries and book collecting.
Submitted by David Shaw on 28 January 2019 - 9:16pm
Barry Taylor (British Library) has reported a new Dee item in Dr William's Library, London.
It is no. 490 in the Bibliographical Society's publication of the facsimile of Dee's catalogue (Roberts and Watson, 1990): 'Vite de piu eccelle[n]ti artichitetti, pittori &c da Giorgio Vasari: 4°. 2 tomis flor. 1550.' http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/content/john-dees-library-catalogue
Submitted by Christopher Adams on 28 January 2019 - 3:47pm
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. Forty-four awards have been made since the Medal Fund was established in 1929 and recipients since 1990 have been Nicolas Barker, Bernhard Fabian, Lotte Hellinga, Don McKenzie, David McKitterick, Henri-Jean Martin, Paul Needham, Mirjam Foot, G. Thomas Tanselle and James Mosley.
Submitted by David Shaw on 17 August 2018 - 12:03pm
An updated version of the Index of provenances and former owners from David Selwyn's Edmund Geste and his books (Bibliographical Society, 2017) is now available online at http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/Geste/Provenances.
