Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group  – Trinity Term 2025 

Fridays 5 pm (unless otherwise stated) 

Week 1, 2 May              

Merton College Library Visit

Previous experience of handling medieval manuscripts is desirable

Limited places, write to the email below by 30/04/2025

Week 3, 16 May, 14:00       

Sara Charles, School of Advanced Studies, University of London

Gold in Medieval Illumination: Practiced-based Workshop

All materials are provided. £10 fee. In association with Oxford Medieval Studies, sponsored by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and the Faculty of History

Limited places, write to the email below by 10/05/2025

Week 4, 23 May ONLINE     

Reading Group: Connoisseurship

Sonja Drimmer, Connoisseurship, Art History, and the Paleographical Impasse in Middle English Studies (2022)

Jonathan Alexander, Art History, Literary History, and the Study of Medieval Manuscripts (1997)

Sydney Cockerell, The Gorleston Psalter (1907)

Write to the email below to join      

Week 5, 30 May, Merton College, Hawkins Room              

Work-in-Progress Session

Irene Van Eldere | Leiden University          

Designing Devotion: Characteristics of Early Middle Dutch Books of Hours

Elvira Miceli | Wolfson College, Oxford

Kingship and the Question of Iconography in the Liber ad honorem Augusti: Bern, Burgerbiliothek, Cod. 120 II

Week 6, 6 June, 15:00, Venue TBC     

Connoisseurship and Medieval Manuscripts: A Roundtable

Michael Michael (University of Glasgow) | Emily Guerry (St Peter’s College, Oxford) | Peter Kidd (Independent Researcher)

For all enquiries, please write to: oxfordmedievalmss@gmail.com 

Organisers: Irina Boeru, Fergus Bovill, Ana Dias, Charly Driscoll, Antonia Delle Fratte, Elena Lichmanova, Mathilde Mioche, Celeste Pan, Klara Zhao