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Some generalizations about the shape and geographical spread of Latin textual traditions

Some generalizations about the shape and geographical spread of Latin textual traditions

Released Thursday, 20th June 2024
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Some generalizations about the shape and geographical spread of Latin textual traditions

Some generalizations about the shape and geographical spread of Latin textual traditions

Some generalizations about the shape and geographical spread of Latin textual traditions

Some generalizations about the shape and geographical spread of Latin textual traditions

Thursday, 20th June 2024
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Episode 4 of the Lyell lectures 2024 delivered by Professor Stephen Oakley. In this series of lectures, Professor Stephen Oakley, Kennedy Professor of Latin and Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, examines the transmission of Latin texts. These five lectures will explore how works of different kinds–the military histories written by Julius Caesar, the poetry of Catullus, and the teachings of early Christians–were passed down over time. A special focus is on the media revolution from hand-written to printed books.

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The Lyell readership in bibliography at Oxford University is endowed by a bequest from James Patrick Ronaldson Lyell (1871-1948), a solicitor, book collector and bibliographer. Each year since 1952, a distinguished scholar has been elected to deliver the lectures, usually six in number, on any topic of bibliography, broadly conceived.J.P.R. Lyell lived in Oxford and (on his retirement) in Abingdon from 1927 until the end of his life. Even as a young man he was interested in collecting early printed books, and he made a study of early book illustration in Spain. In the 1930s he began collecting medieval manuscripts, eventually accumulating some 250 of these, of which one hundred were bequeathed to the Bodleian Library. A further series of some 65 manuscripts, mostly post-medieval, were bought by the Library from his executors. The first Lyell lectures, for the academic year 1952-3, were delivered by Neil R. Ker, university reader in palaeography and fellow of Magdalen College.

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