Marco Bertagna gives a talk for the History of the Book seminar series on 1st March 2019.

15cHEBRAICA: Capturing the former owners of Hebrew incunabula and their annotations in the Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database 

Jane Stevenson, Senior research Fellow, Campion Hall, Oxford, gives a talk fo the History of the Book seminar series on 1st February 2019.

Scottish and British Authors Published Abroad 1470-1700 

Earle Havens (Johns Hopkins), gives the first talk in the new term for the Centre for the Study of the Book on Friday 18th January 2019.

Bumble-Bee Witches and the Reading of Dreams: Spectacular and Speculative Marginalia in a Renaissance Reader’s Montaigne 

Dr Falk Eisermann (Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, Staatsbibliothek, Berlin), gives a talk for the History of the Book Seminar series on 9th March 2018.

Digital Typography - Did you mean incurable? Searching and Finding Incunabula in the World Wide Web 

Professor Lilian Armstrong (Wellesley College) gives a talk for the History of the Book seminar series on 2nd March 2018.

History of Art - The De Spira Brothers vrs. Nicolaus Jenson, 1469-1472: A Rivalry Traced through Hand-illuminated Copies of their Editions 

Dr Irene Ceccherini (Lyell-Bodleian Research Fellow in Manuscript Studies, Bodleian Library, Dilts Research Fellow in Palaeography, Lincoln College, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the Seminar in the History of the Book on 9th February 2017.

Trade - Merchants' books of Venice and Florence 

Andreas Frisius

Professor Ian Maclean (All Souls College), gives the third seminar in the History of the Book series, looking at the early modern period publishing policies in Europe on February 2nd, 2018.

Early Modern Publishing Policies - Andreas Frisius of Amsterdam and the search for a niche market, 1664-75 

Professor Julia Bray (Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the new series for the Centre for the Study of the Book.

Arabic - Scrolls into codices: Jilyani's picture-poems for Saladin 

Dr Alan Stahl (Curator of Numismatics, Princeton University) gives a talk in the new Centre for the Study of the Book Seminar series.

Numismatics - Coins, Money and Prices in Renaissance Italy 

Professor Rodolfo Savelli, Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza, Università di Genova, gives a talk for the 15th Century Booktrade series on 10th March 2017.

Law: Printing the Corpus iuris civilis in the Sixteenth Century 

An international and interdisciplinary series which explores the interaction between the history of the book and other areas of research. Oxford, Weston Library, Visiting Scholars' Centre (VSC) - Hilary Term, Fridays 2.15. Convenor: Cristina Dondi (Lincoln College and 15cBOOKTRADE)

Dr Paul Needham, Scheide Library, Princeton University Library gives a talk for the 15th Century Booktrade series on 3rd March 2017.

Theology: The Gutenberg Bible in the Context of Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Bibles 

Nigel Wilson, fellow of Lincoln College, reads a lecture written by Dr David Speranzi, Firenze, Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento. Dr Speranzi was unable to attend the recording of this lecture so Nigel Wilson read in his absence.

Manuscript Studies: Greek Script and Type in the Fifteenth century. Demetrius Damilas between Milan and Florence 

Dr Jeremiah Dittmar, Department of Economics, London School of Economics, gives a talk on 10th February 2017.

Economics: The Price of Books in Early Modern Europe: An Economic Perspective 

Professor Stephen Oakley, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge University, gives a talk for the 15th Century Booktrade series on 3rd February 2017.

Classics: Incunabular Stemmatics, 

The History of the Book and Cultural History with Professor Ian Maclean, All Souls College, Oxford on 20th January 2017.

The Italian Trade with the Frankfurt Book Fair around 1600 

History of the Book 2017-2019

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