Richard Sharpe, A hidden collection of Irish manuscripts, British Library 2017

Описание: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE NEW SOURCES FOR BOOK HISTORY, BRITISH LIBRARY (28th NOVEMBER 2017)

Richard Sharpe (University of Oxford), A hidden collection of Irish manuscripts

The aim is to recover a perception of the Irish manuscript collection of Sir William Betham (1779--1853), formed quickly, I should argue, between c. 1839 and 1846, using the original valuation list from 1847, press reports, earlier offer-lists, bindings, different numberings, nineteenth-century cataloguing, and correspondence. One aspect of the collection that emerges is Betham's high dependence on his contact with a family of Irish scribes in Co. Cork.

Richard Sharpe is professor of diplomatic at Oxford and researches in documents and archives, books and libraries from the middle ages, for the most part dealing with Latin. He has had a long-standing interest in Irish and in recent years has been studying late manuscripts in the Irish language as providing evidence for manuscript culture through modern levels of recording.

The conference was organised by Laura Carnelos (Marie Curie Fellow at CERL), Stephen Parkin (Curator, Printed Heritage, British Library), and Cristina Dondi (Professor of Early European Book Heritage, Fellow of Lincoln College). The conference and the videos are sponsored by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skolodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 659625.