Grant Recipients

• 2022

  Dagmar Riedel (Columbia University): Research into early British collectors and the manuscript trade in India and Iran before 1815 (focus on the Persian collections of the Ouseley Brothers).

  Grantley McDonald (University of Vienna): A biography of the medical humanist John Clement (c.1495-1572), with an examination of his annotated copies

  Hannah Ryley, Julia von Ditfurth, and Carolin Gluchowski (Universities of Oxford and Freiburg): Cultures of Reuse: Frameworks for Recycling and Reframing (workshop)

• 2021

  Paul Lennon (St Andrew’s University): Thomas Thorpe’s 1826 sale of Astorga Collection to Faculty of Advocates, Scotland

  Cailah Jackson (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies): 14/15th century Arabic and Persian manuscripts produced for the Mongols (Jalayirid dynasty)

  Philippe Schmid (St Andrew’s University): Collecting Legacies: Libraries, Memory and Antiquarian Culture in Early Modern Germany (with a focus on group of scholars around Leibniz; in particular Ezekiel Spanheim, whose collection was auctioned in London in 1711: catalogue in Worcester College)

• 2020

  Chiara Betti (Bodleian/School of Advanced Study): Copper Plates Unfolded: ECR Multidisciplinary Masterclass (took place in 2022).

• 2019

  Anna James (Oxford University) : Cataloguing translations of the Book of Common Prayer at Pusey House

  Renae Satterley (Middle Temple Library, London): Research on Robert Ashley (1565-1641), the founder of Middle Temple Library

  Tristan Franklinos (Oxford University): Teaching the Codex 3—Decentring the Codex. Colloquium, Merton College

  Hannah Ryley (Oxford University): Re-Using Manuscripts in Late Medieval England (monograph published 2022)

  Tim Glover (Oxford University): Latin works of Richard Rolle contained in some Prague manuscripts

• 2018

  Jessica Brown (Oxford University): Cataloguing of Giles Barber’s archive at the Bodleian Library

  Richard Foster (Winchester College): Libraries in Revolution, 1640-1660 (conference at Winchester College 2019)

  Alexandra Marraccini (Oxford University): Digitisation of MSS Ashmole 1456 and 1502, two fragile manuscripts of the Hortus Siccus

  Oliver Miller (Oxford University): attendance at ‘Latin Palaeography and Homer’ (UCL).

  James Misson (Oxford University): cataloguing of incunabula from Jesus College Library onto the Material Evidence in Incunabula database

  Timothy Coutts (Aberystwyth Bibliographical Group): Residential symposium at Gregynog Hall, the University of Wales conference centre and home of the Gregynog Press

• 2017

  Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (Oxford University): Greek Translation of Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq’s Questions on medicine in Canon. Gr. 1, for a paper to be delivered at the Canonici conference in Oxford (2017)

  Sian Witherden and Hannah Ryley (Oxford Unversity): cataloguing of incunabula from Balliol College Library onto the Material Evidence in Incunabula database.

  Alex Franklin (Bodleian Library): support for two subsidised places on the History of Printed Book Illustration summer school.

• 2016

  Julia Smith (Oxford University): Workshop on early modern paper, ink and writing implements (Weston Library)

  Olga Sixtova (Prague University): Bibliography of Hebrew editions printed in Prague

  Alex Franklin (Bodleian Library): support for subsidised places on the Bodleian summer school in hand-press printing.

  Phillip Tromans (De Montfort University): Textual variants in Dionyse Settle’s True Report (1577)

  Eric Weiskott (Boston College): English Political Prophecy in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

  Matthew Payne (Westminster Abbey Library): Activities of William Lily, Oxford graduate, in Italy