The Lyell Readership in Bibliography is an endowed annual lecture series given at Oxford University. Instituted in 1952 by a bequest from the solicitor, book collector and bibliographer James Patrick Ronaldson Lyell (1871–1948

the series has continued down to the present day. Together with the Panizzi Lectures at the British Library and the Sandars Lectures at Cambridge University, it is considered one of the major British bibliographical lecture series.

Lectures

* 1952–1953

Neil Ripley Ker Neil Ripley Ker (; 1908–1982) was a scholar of Anglo-Saxon literature. He was Reader in Palaeography at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford until he retired in 1968. He is known especially for his ''Catalogue of Ma ...

: English Manuscripts in the Century after the Norman Conquest * 1954–1955 Walter Wilson Greg: Some Aspects and Problems of London Publishing between 1550 and 1650 * 1956–1957 Stanley Arthur Morison: Aspects of Authority and Freedom in Relation to Greco–Latin Script, Inscription, and Type * 1959–1960 Fredson T. Bowers:

Bibliography Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliography ...

and Textual Criticism * 1960–1961 Henry Graham Pollard: The Medieval Book Trade in Oxford * 1961–1962 Philip Hofer: The Artist and the Book in France * 1962–1963 A.N.L. Munby: Three Nineteenth-Century Collectors of Manuscripts * 1963–1964 Jacques Guignard: L'Art de le Reliure en France et l'Action des Bibliophiles: Quelques Aspects de la Question * 1964–1965 William Beattie: Some Aspects of the History of the Advocates' Library * 1965–1966 Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith: International Copyright Law and the Publisher in the Reign of Queen Victoria * 1966–1967 Anthony Ian Doyle: Some English Scribes and Scriptoria of the Later Middle Ages * 1967–1968 Harry Graham Carter: A View of Early Typography up to about 1600 * 1968–1969 : The Labours of Hercules: Some Observations on the History of Erasmus's ''Opera Omnia'' * 1969–1970 William Burton Todd: Scholarly Texts: Variable Techniques and Designs * 1970–1971 Otto Ernst Pächt: The Art of Drawing within the Realm of Medieval Illumination * 1971–1972 Wytze Hellinga: The Bibliography of Early Printing in the Low Countries between 1767 and 1874 * 1972–1973 André Masson: Le Catalogue Figuratif: A Pictorial Guide to the Contents of European Libraries from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century * 1973–1974 Alan W. Tyson: Beethoven: Studies in the Genesis of his Music 1803–9 * 1974–1975 T.A.M. Bishop: The Script of Corbie * 1975–1976

David F. Foxon David Fairweather Foxon, FBA (9 January 1923 – 5 June 2001) was an English bibliographer. Noted for his study of books and literature in 18th-century England, he was the Reader in Textual Criticism at the University of Oxford from 1968 to 1982. ...

: Pope and the Early Eighteenth-Century Book Trade * 1976–1977 T. Julian Brown: The Insular System of Scripts, c.600–c.850 * 1977–1978 Mme Jeanne Veyrin-Forrer: La Famille Fournier et la Fonderie Typographique en France au XVIIIe Siècle * 1978–1979 Howard Millar Nixon: English Decorated Bookbindings * 1979–1980 Monsignor José Ruysschaert: Recherches Vaticanes sur la Miniature Italienne du Quinzième Siecle * 1980–1981 Ian Gilbert Philip: The Bodleian Library in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries * 1981–1982 Berthold Wolpe: The Quest for Beauchesne: Contributions to the History of Elizabethan Calligraphy and Print-Making * 1982–1983 Jonathan J.G. Alexander: Creation and Transmission: Methods of Work of Manuscript Illuminators in the Middle Ages * 1983–1984 Robert Shackleton: The Bibliographical History of Montesquieu * 1984–1985 Gordon Norton Ray: The Art Deco Book in France * 1985–1986 Edwin Wolf: Books, Bookmen, and Booksellers in Colonial Philadelphia * 1986–1987 Mary Pollard: Dublin Trade in Books 1550 to 1800 * 1987–1988 D.F. McKenzie: Bibliography and History: Seventeenth-Century England * 1988–1989 Donald H. Reiman: The Study of Modern Manuscripts: Public, Confidential, and Private * 1989–1990 Elizabeth L. Eisenstein: Grub Street Abroad: Aspects of the French Cosmopolitan Press from the Age of Louis XIV to the French Revolution * 1990–1991 A.R.A. Hobson: Two Renaissance Book-Collectors:

Jean Grolier Jean may refer to: People * Jean (female given name) * Jean (male given name) * Jean (surname) Fictional characters * Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character * Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations * Jean ...

and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Their Libraries and Bookbindings * 1991–1992 R.H. Rouse: Book-Producers and Pook-Production in Paris: Family, Shop, and Neighbourhood on the Rue Neuve Notre-Dame, 1200–1500 * 1992–1993 Bernhard Fabian: English Authors and German Publishers in the Eighteenth Century * 1993–1994 Joseph Burney Trapp: Illustrations of Petrarch from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century * 1994–1995 Henri-Jean Martin: Du Manuscrit au Livre Imprimé: Mise en Page et Mise en Texte des Textes Littéraires Français de la Fin due XVe Siècle au Milieu du XVIIe Siècle * 1995–1996 Peter Beal: In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and Their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England * 1996–1997 Robert Darnton: Policing Literature in Eighteenth-Century Paris * 1998–1999 Malcolm B. Parkes: Their Hands before Our Eyes: A Closer Look at Scribes * 1999–2000 David McKitterick: Set in Print: The Fortunes of an Idea, c.1450–1800 * 2000–2001 Rodney Malcolm Thomson: Books and Learning in Twelfth-Century England: The Ending of 'Alter Orbis' * 2001–2002 Bruce Bryning Redford: Designing the Life of Johnson * 2002–2003 Nigel G. Wilson: The World of Books in

Byzantium Byzantium () or Byzantion ( grc, Βυζάντιον) was an ancient Greek city in classical antiquity that became known as Constantinople in late antiquity and Istanbul today. The Greek name ''Byzantion'' and its Latinization ''Byzantium'' cont ...

* 2003–2004

Kathleen L. Scott Kathleen L. Scott is a codicologist specialising in 15th-century English manuscripts. An independent scholar, she is associated with the University of Massachusetts. Education and career Scott holds an AB from Colorado College, and an MA an ...

: Suppleatur per Ymaginacionem: Exceptional Images in Later Medieval English Manuscripts * 2004–2005 : Literary Life and Book-Market in Germany under the Swastika 1933–1945 * 2005–2006 Leslie Howsam: Historical Knowledge and British Publishers, 1850–1950: Discipline and Narrative * 2006–2007 Mirella Ferrari: The Scriptorium and Library of Bobbio * 2007–2008 Kristian Jensen: Collecting

Incunabula In the history of printing, an incunable or incunabulum (plural incunables or incunabula, respectively), is a book, pamphlet, or broadside that was printed in the earliest stages of printing in Europe, up to the year 1500. Incunabula were pro ...

: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Market — Rediscovering and Re-Creating the Earliest Printed Books in the Eighteenth Century * 2008–2009 Christopher F.R. de Hamel: Fragments in Book Bindings * 2009–2010 Ian Maclean: The Business of Scholarship: The Trade in Latin Books in the Age of Confessions, 1560–1630 * 2010–2011 David Parker: Describing the New Testament * 2011–2012 Lukas Erne: Shakespeare and the Book Trade * 2012–2013 Richard Beadle: Late Medieval English Autograph Writings and Their Uses * 2013–2014 H.R. Woudhuysen: 'Almost Identical': Copying Books in England, 1600–1900 * 2014–2015 Michael Suarez, : The Reach of Bibliography * 2015–2016

Teresa Webber Mary Teresa Josephine Webber, is a British palaeographer, medievalist, and academic. She has been a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge since 1997 and Professor of Palaeography at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge since 2018. Webbe ...

: Public Reading and its Books: Monastic Ideals and Practice in England c. 1000–c. 1300 * 2016–2017 Paul Nelles: The Vatican Library in the

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* 2017–2018

David Pearson David or Dave Pearson may refer to: * David Pearson (librarian) (born 1955), British librarian and scholar * David Pearson (racing driver) (1934–2018), American car racing champion * David Pearson (scientist) (born 1942), Canadian scientist, a ...

: Book Ownership in Stuart England * 2018–2019 Richard Sharpe: Libraries and Books in Medieval England: The Role of Libraries in a Changing Book Economy (recording
here
* 2019–2020 Marc Smith Writing models from manuscript to print: France, England and Europe, c.1400–1800 (recording
here
* 2020–2021

Paul Needham Paul Needham may refer to: *Paul Needham (librarian) Paul Needham (born 1943) is an American academic librarian. From 1998 to 2020, he worked at the Scheide Library at Princeton University. A Guggenheim Fellow and Bibliographical Society Gold ...

: The Genesis, Life, and Afterlife of the Gutenberg Bible (link t
recorded versions here
* 2021–2022

Susan Rankin Susan Kathleen Rankin, FBA, FSA, is a musicologist. Since 2006, she has been Professor of Medieval Music at the University of Cambridge; she has also been a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, since 1981 (having previously been a research fe ...

: From Memory to Written Record: English Liturgical Books and Musical Notations, 900–1150 (first lecture availabl
here

References

{{Books Bibliography History of books Lecture series at the University of Oxford Palaeography Textual criticism 1952 establishments in England Recurring events established in 1952

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