Oxford Bibliographical Society
OXFORD BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
AGENDA
1. The Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 5 June 2013.
2. Presentation of the Annual Report and Statement of Accounts for 2013.
3. Election of Officers and Council.
The following Ordinary Members are retiring under Article 7:
Dr Cristina Dondi (Faculty of History)
Dr Robert Ritter (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
Professor Nigel Wilson (Lincoln College)
The following Officers are retiring:
Dr Kate Longworth (Sales and Marketing)
Dr Cristina Neagu (Honorary Secretary)
Council proposes
(a) the following for re-election as an Ordinary Member for a period of 3 years:
Dr Cristina Dondi (Faculty of History)
(b) the following for election as Ordinary Members for a period of 3 years:
Dr Adam Smyth (Balliol College, Oxford)
Professor Henry Woudhuysen FBA (Lincoln College, Oxford)
(c) the following for election as Sales and Marketing Officer for a period of 4 years:
Dr Robert Ritter (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
(d) the following for election as Honorary Secretary for a period of 4 years:
Dr Paul Nash (Bodleian Library)
4. Appointment of Independent Examiner (Auditor).
5. Any other business which may be transacted at an Annual General Meeting. Notice of motions should be sent to reach the Hon. Secretary of the Society not later than seven days before the meeting.
6. After the conclusion of the business meeting,
Gabrielle Rossi Rognoni (Royal College of Music, London)
will address the Society on the subject of
Grand Prince Ferdinando de' Medici and Music, with Particular Attention to
His Lost Musical Library
The Lecture will begin at 5:15 pm
Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 5 June 2013
- The minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 30 May 2012 were accepted and signed.
- The Annual Report and Statement of Accounts for 2012 were accepted.
- Election of President
Dr Ronald Truman (Christ Church, Oxford) retired under Article 7. Nominations were received and Professor Nigel Wilson FBA (Lincoln College, Oxford) was elected for a period of 4 years.
- Election of Officers and Ordinary Members of Council.
Nominations were received and the following was elected as member of Council: Dr James Willoughby (New College, Oxford). The following were re-elected members of Council: Dr Chris Fletcher (Bodleian Library) and Dr Paul W. Nash (Bodleian Library).
- Mr Paul Atyeo was re-elected as Independent Examiner (Auditor).
- Motion for the revision of the Constitution was approved.
- There being no further business, Professor Nigel Palmer FBA (St Edmund Hall, Oxford) read a paper entitled The Making of an Illustrated Prayerbook in the 14th and 15th-Century Strasbourg: Ursula Begerin.
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2013
The Council consisted of the following:
PresidentDr Ronald Truman
Past PresidentsMr Michael Turner, Professor Nigel Palmer
General EditorsMr Scott Mandelbrote, Dr David Rundle
Hon. TreasurerMr Andrew Honey
Hon. SecretaryDr Cristina Neagu
Sales and Marketing OfficerMs Kate Longworth
Web OfficerDr Ian Gadd
Further Members of Council
Dr Cristina Dondi, Dr Robert Ritter, Prof. Nigel Wilson,
Dr Clive Griffin, Dr Clive Hurst and Dr William Poole,
Dr James Willoughby, Dr Chris Fletcher, Dr Paul W. Nash
Talks
Monday, 28 January 2013
RICHARD GAMESON (Durham University)
The Earliest English Royal Books
Monday, 28 February 2013
PADDY BULLARD (University of Kent)
"Bare words not being sufficient...": Tacit Knowledge and Early-Modern Books
Monday, 6 May 2013
RICHARD OVENDEN (Bodleian Library)
Photography and the Book
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
NIGEL PALMER (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
The Making of an Illustrated Prayerbook in 14th and 15th Century Strasbourg:Ursula Begerin
Monday, 25 November 2013
MARTIN ANDREWS & ALAN MAY (University of Reading)
The One-Pull Press: Workshop on Early Printing and Casting Type
Visits
Monday, 12 November 2012
Visit to the BALLIOL COLLEGE ARCHIVES.
Tuesday, 15 July 2013
Visit to the ROYAL SOCIETY LIBRARY.
Publications
Catalogue of the Library of John Ruskin, by J.S. Dearden (Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2013) . Cost £36 (for members), £40 (for a second copy), £60 (retail price).
Portuguese Writers and English Readers: Books by Portuguese Writers Printed Before 1640 in the Libraries of Oxford and Cambridge, by Professor T.F. Earle (Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2009). Cost £27 (for members), £40 (retail price).
Forthcoming publications:
Fifteenth-Century Printing Practices: Johann Zainer of Ulm by Claire Bolton.
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts up to c. 1600 in Christ Church, Oxford by Ralph Hanna and David Rundle.
Samuel Palmer, Printer, of London (fl. 1717-32), by J. C. Ross.
A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of The Queen's College, Oxford, by Peter Kidd.
It is expected that future publications will include:
Fragments in Book Bindings, by Christopher de Hamel.
Membership
New Members
Liz Baird, John Hodgson, Oxford University Press, Veronica Watts.
Resignations
Simon Haigh, Prof. Michael Twyman.
Deaths
Sir Robert Horton (2011), Timothy Rix.
Total Membership
430
Cover illustrations from David Loggan, Oxonia illustrata, sive, Omnium celeberrimæ istius universitatis collegiorum, aularum, Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ, scholarum publicarum, Theatri Sheldoniani, nec non urbis totius scenographia. (Oxoniæ : E Theatro Sheldoniano, M. DC. LXXV). Cover design: Cristina Neagu