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SUMMARY:Julian Harrison\, Curator at the British Library on Sir Robert Cot
 ton and Oxford - Julian Harrison (British Library)
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DESCRIPTION:Please join the Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group (OMMG) for a
  lecture by Julian Harrison\, Curator of pre-1600 Historical Manuscripts a
 t the British Library. Dr Harrison will be presenting on Sir Robert Cotton
  and Oxford.\n\nThis event is free and open to the public.\nSpeakers:\nJul
 ian Harrison (British Library)
LOCATION:Merton College (John Roberts Room)\, Merton Street OX1 4JD
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SUMMARY:Tour of the All Souls College library - Peregrine Horden (All Soul
 s)
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DESCRIPTION:Please join the Oxford Medieval Manuscripts group for a tour o
 f the All Souls College library with Peregrine Horden\, Fellow Librarian\,
  All Souls College\, where we will learn about the library's history as we
 ll as view some of their manuscript collection.\n\nPlease note that places
  are limited\, write to oxfordmedievalmss@gmail.com to reserve your place.
 \nSpeakers:\nPeregrine Horden (All Souls)
LOCATION:All Souls College (Meet at the All Souls porter's lodge)\, High S
 treet OX1 4AL
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SUMMARY:Observing and Measuring the Heavens: Manuscripts\, Instruments\, a
 nd Astronomical Practice in the Middle Ages\, a Workshop with Laure Miolo 
 - Laure Miolo (Oxford)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260220T153000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260220T163000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Laure Miolo\, Associate Professor in Medieval Latin Manuscript
  Studies at the University of Oxford\, will be giving a workshop\, demonst
 rating how medieval people observed and measured the heavens. As part of t
 he workshop\, we will visit the History of Science Museum and Weston Libra
 ry.\n\nPlease note that space is limited\, so please email oxfordmedievalm
 ss@gmail.com to reserve your place.\nSpeakers:\nLaure Miolo (Oxford)
LOCATION:Weston Library (Meet at the lockers in the Weston Library)\, Broa
 d Street OX1 3BG
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SUMMARY:Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group Graduate Research Forum - Emma N
 elson (Manchester)\, Elliot Cobb
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260220T170000Z
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DESCRIPTION:OMMG welcomes Emma J. Nelson (Chetham's Library\, Manchester) 
 and Elliot Cobb (Independent Scholar) who will present their latest resear
 ch at our Graduate Research Forum.\n\n'No take-backsies? Gerald of Wales a
 nd the boundaries of book donation' | Emma J. Nelson\n\nThe second half of
  the twelfth century witnessed a major shift in the history of medieval li
 braries\, as individual donation came to replace communal acquisition as t
 he dominant mode of library growth. This development can be characterised 
 as a shift from a monastic to a secular-clerical model of library growth\,
  and book donation represented just one aspect of a multi-faceted pattern 
 of patronage by the twelfth-century secular clergy. Such donations were un
 derpinned by contemporary thought on gift-giving\, which emphasised that g
 ifts ought to be given freely and open-handedly\, but in practice\, donati
 on could be more complicated. This paper explores the donations made by th
 e author Gerald of Wales to various religious institutions and individuals
  with the aim of furthering his goals. Gerald’s discussions of his donat
 ions reveal how he conformed to\, co-opted and transgressed twelfth-centur
 y models of donation\, and provide the starting point for an examination o
 f these models’ boundaries. Such an examination connects approaches to p
 atronage and publication\, textual dissemination and reception\, and the s
 uitability of certain genres as subjects of clerical writing and their app
 ropriateness for inclusion in secular-clerical libraries. \n\n\n'Miraculou
 s and Marginal Women in the Metz Psalter-Hours' | Elliot Cobb\n\nThroughou
 t the margins and historiated initials of a late thirteenth-century person
 al prayerbook\, a remarkable variety of women are depicted. The richly ill
 uminated Metz Psalter-Hours contains images of women praying with devotion
 al aids including rosaries and books\; women sporting floral garlands and 
 golden crowns\; and female saints miraculously victorious over evildoers. 
 This paper interrogates how word and image functioned concurrently in late
  medieval prayerbooks to construct a gendered devotional experience specif
 ic to the recipient – in this case\, a wealthy lay woman living in north
 eastern France. I question how the use of different zones of the mise-en-p
 age mediates the meanings of the varying images\, and how gendered themes 
 come to a head in the Hours of the Virgin through a fascinating depiction 
 of the book owner kneeling before the Virgin and Child. Unusually\, she is
  offered a golden crown by the Christ-Child. Furthermore\, I draw attentio
 n to the exceptionally high number of lay women portrayed using books\, si
 tuating this as yet understudied manuscript within ongoing topical discuss
 ions surrounding the role of medieval owner portraits in prayerbooks.\n\nT
 he Graduate Research Forum is open to the public.\nSpeakers:\nEmma Nelson 
 (Manchester)\, Elliot Cobb
LOCATION:Merton College (Sir Howard Stringer Room)\, Merton Street OX1 4JD
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SUMMARY:Medieval Manuscripts Reading Group | Dissemination
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260130T170000Z
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UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/ff071918-62e0-4307-a080-310b907020b7/
DESCRIPTION:Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group's first event of term will b
 e our reading group\, held on 30 January. The theme for the reading group 
 this term will be 'dissemination'\, where we will discuss the following te
 xts:\n\nLeah R. Clark\, ‘Dispersal\, Exchange and the Culture of Things 
 in Fifteenth-Century Italy’\, in The Agency of Things in Medieval and Ea
 rly Modern Art\, ed. by Ika Matyjaszkiewicz\, Zuzanna Sarnecka\, and Graż
 yna Jurkowlaniec (New York\; Abingdon: Routledge\, 2018)\, 91–102\n\nRic
 hard Sharpe\, ‘Dissolution and Dispersion in Sixteenth-Century England: 
 Understanding the Remains’\, in How the Secularization of Religious Hous
 es Transformed the Libraries of Europe\, 16th–19th Centuries\, ed. by Cr
 istina Dondi\, Dorit Raines and Richard Sharpe (Turnhout: Brepols\, 2022)\
 , 39–66\n\nOptional: Mariah Proctor-Tiffany\, ‘The Queen’s Manuscrip
 ts and Identity’\, in Medieval Art in Motion: The Inventory and Gift Giv
 ing of Queen Clémence de Hongrie (University Park\, Pennsylvania: Penn St
 ate University Press\, 2019)\, 80–103\n\nIf you would like to participat
 e\, please email us (oxfordmedievalmss@gmail.com) and we will send you the
  reading material a week in advance.
LOCATION:Email oxfordemedievalmss@gmail.com for the meeting link
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