The fifth lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2021 series delivered by Paul Needham, Princeton
The serpentine text of the Gutenberg Bible
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The Genesis, Life, and Afterlife of the Gutenberg Bible
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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...