Exploring the world of books at Oxford
By Luise Morawetz and Vincent Leung In the fourth week of our History of the Book methodology module, the topic was palaeography. Dr. Colleen Curran, a researcher at the Faculty of English of the University of Oxford and expert in Insular scripts, took us to the Weston Library’s Visiting Scholar’s Centre to introduce us to …
By Isabelle Riepe The ex libris of the book Trauerspiel by Voltaire suggests it was owned by Theodore Besterman and gifted to the University of Oxford, specifically the Taylor Institution Library. Theodore Besterman founded the Voltaire Foundation, which publishes the definite edition of the complete works of Voltaire and specialises in eighteenth-century scholarship, and bequeathed …
By Caroline Godard While studying in Paris a year and a half ago, I went to the Shakespeare & Company bookstore to hear Agnès Poirier speak about Left Bank, her newly published history of the Paris intellectual scene from 1940 to 1950. Her book intrigued me, but more than that, I was captivated by her …