The forth lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2022 series delivered by Professor Susan Rankin (University of Cambridge)
From Neumes in campo aperto to Neumes on Lines (at Christchurch, Canterbury)
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From Memory to Written Record: English Liturgical Books and Musical Notations, 900–1150
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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...