Ms Pamela Robinson

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Contact details

Name:
Ms Pamela Robinson
Qualifications:
FSA
Position/Fellowship type:
Senior Research Fellow
Institute:
Institute of English Studies
Email address:
Pamela.Robinson@sas.ac.uk

Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:
Palaeography
Summary of research interests and expertise:

Fellow: The Society of Antiquaries
Member: The Comité International de Paléographie Latine.
Member: The Association of Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections and of the Early Book Society.
Convenor: London Medieval Manuscripts Seminar

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date Details
16-Jan-2014 'Materials: Paper and Type'

Articles

Contribution to A Companion to the Early English Printed Book in Britain, 1476-1558, eds. Vincent Gillespie and Susan Powell (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2014), pp. 61-74.

01-Jan-2014 ‘Materials: Paper and Type’, in A Companion to the Early English Printed Book in Britain

Articles

 ‘Materials: Paper and Type’, in A Companion to the Early English Printed Book in Britain, 1476-1558, eds Vincent Gillespie and Susan Powell (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2014), pp. 61-74. 

01-Jan-2014 Libraries of Collegiate Churches

Review

 Libraries of Collegiate Churches, ed. J.M.W. Willoughby, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 15 (British Library/ British Academy, 2013) for Library and Information History, 30 (2014), 221-22 

01-Sep-2012 Review of The Wollaton Medieval Manuscripts: Texts, Owners and Readers

Review

Review of The Wollaton Medieval Manuscripts: Texts, Owners and Readers, eds Ralph Hanna and Thorlac Turville-Petre, Manuscript Culture in the British Isles 3 (York Medieval Press in association with Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2010) for Medium Ævum, 81 (2012), 329-31

01-Jun-2012 Senate House Library University of London

Articles

Contribution to Senate House Library University of London. Eds. Christopher Pressler and Karen Attar (London, 2012).

01-Feb-2012 Pages from the Past: Medieval Writing Skills and Manuscript Books

Edited Book

[with Rivkah Zim] ed., Pages from the Past: Medieval Writing Skills and Manuscript Books, by M.B. Parkes, Variorum Collected Studies Series CS1000 (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2012). ISBN: 978-1-4094-3806-9

01-Jan-2011 A.C. de la Mare and Laura Nuvoloni, Bartolomeo Sanvito: The Life and Work of a Renaissance Scribe, eds Anthony Hobson and Christopher de Hamel, The Handwriting of the Italian Humanists, II

Review

Journal of the Early Book Society, 14 (2011), 275-79

01-Jan-2011 Nigel Ramsay and James M.W. Willoughby, eds, Hospitals, Towns and the Professions. Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 14. (British Library/ he British Academy, 2009),

Review

Journal of the Early Book Society, 14 (2011), 308-10

01-Jan-2011 Konstantinos Sp. Staikos, The History of the Library in Western Civilization, vol. IV: From Cassiodorus to Furnival, transl. Timothy Cullen and Dollie Sloman. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2010)

Review

Library and Information History, 27 (2011), 56-57

01-Jan-2010 'The History of the Manuscript Book in the West, 400 AD-1455: An Overview'

Chapters

The History of the Book in the West: A Library of Critical Essays, vol. I. 13,200 words.

01-Jan-2010 'The Manuscript of The Book of Margery Kempe'

Articles

Recording Medieval Lives, Donington: Shaun Tyas. 6600 words (article)

01-Jan-2010 'The Wheel of False and True Religion, MS 107' and 'Copying Caxton, MS 265'

Research aids

Lambeth Palace Library: Treasures from the Collection of the Archbishop of Canterbury, ed. Richard Palmer and Michelle Brown. Lambeth Palace: Scala Publishing. (2 contributions to exhibition catalogue) 1000 words

01-Jan-2010 Review of R.M. Thomson 'A descriptive catalogue of the medieval mss of Merton College, Oxford'

Review

Association for Manuscrpts and Archives in Research Collections, Newsletter, No. 54

01-Jan-2010 Review of B. Barker-Benfield 'St Augustine's Abbey'

Review

Library and Information History, 25

01-Jan-2010 Teaching Writing, Learning to Write: Proceedings of the XVIth Colloquium of the Comite International de Paleographie Latine

Edited Book

Editor. King's College London Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies, 2010.

01-Jan-2010 Teaching Writing, Learning to Write: Proceedings of the XVIth colloquium of the Comité International de Paléographie Latine,

Edited Book

01-Jan-2010 'Self-Contained Unites in Composite Manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon Period'

Chapters

Mary P. Richards (ed.), Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: Basic Readings (New York and London: Routledge, 2001) [reprint]

01-Jun-2009 'lewdecalenders from Lynn'

Articles

In Tributes to Kathleen L. Scott; English Medieval Manuscripts: Readers, Makers and Illuminators, ed. Marlene Villabos Hennessy (London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2009), pp. 221-30

01-Jun-2009 Review for Journal of the Early Book Society, 12

Review

Review of Michelle P. Brown, Manuscripts from the Anglo-Saxon Age (British Library, 2007) for Journal of the Early Book Society, 12 (2009), pp. 285-7.
ISBN: 0-944473-95-4
 

01-Jun-2009 Review for Journal of the Early Book Society, 12

Review

Review of Richard Gameson, The Earliest Books of Canterbury Cathedral: Manuscripts and Fragments to c.1200 (London: Bibliographical Society, 2008) for Journal of the Early Book Society, 12 (2009), pp. 285-87.
ISBN: 0-944473-95-4
 

01-Jun-2009 Review for The Ricardian, 19

Review

Review of Alexandra Gillespie, Print Culture and the Medieval Author: Chaucer, Lydgate, and their Books 1473-1557 (Oxford University Press, 2006) for The Ricardian, 19 (2009), pp. 125-7.

01-Jun-2009 Review for The Ricardian, 19

Review

Review of Wendy Scase, Literature and Complaint in England 1272-1553 (Oxford University Press, 2007), for The Ricardian, 19 (2009), 121-22.

20-Sep-2008 'A very curious Almanack: the gift of Sir Robert Moray FRS, 1668'

Articles

In Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 62 (2008), pp. 301-4.
DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2007.0017

14-Aug-2008 Review for The Times Higher Education, 14

Review

Review of Jennifer Summitt, Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England (University of Chicago Press, 2008) for the Times Higher Education, 14 August 2008.

01-May-2008 'The format of books: books, booklets and rolls'

Articles

In, The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. II, 1100-1400, eds. Nigel J. Morgan and Rodney M. Thomson (Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 41-54.
ISBN 13: 9780521782180

01-Jan-2008 Review for Journal of the Early Book Society, 11

Review

Review of Michael Lapidge, The Anglo-Saxon Library (Oxford University Press, 2006), for Journal of the Early Book Society, 11 (2008), pp. 253-57.
ISBN: 0-944473-88-1
 

 

01-Jan-2007 Review for The Ricardian, 17

Review

Review of Text in the Community: Essays on Medieval Works, Manuscripts, Authors, and Readers, ed. Jill Mann and Maura Nolan (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006), for The Ricardian, 17 (2007), pp. 153-56.

01-Jan-2004 'A "Prik of Concience Cheyned": The Parish Library of St Margaret's, New Fish Street, London, 1742'

Chapters

Takami Matsuda, Richard A. Linenthal and John Seahill (eds.), The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2004), 209-21

01-Jan-2003 Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.888-1600 in London Libraries

Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.888-1600 in London Libraries (London: British Library, 2003)

01-Jan-2000 The Old English Illustrated Pharmocopoeia

Review

eds. M.A D'Aronco and M.L.Cameron, Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile 27 (Copenhagen, 1998) in Medical History 44 (2000), 433-34

A catalogue of medieval Latin commentaries on Aristotle in MSS in London

Research aids

Compiling a catalogue of medieval Latin commentaries on Aristotle in MSS in London for the British Academy.

Relevant Events

Related events:

Date Details
22-Jul-2013 'On the transmission and reception of Aristotelian commentaries'

Language, Culture and Society in Russian/English Studies. Institute of English Studies,

17-Nov-2012 'Who read what in the later Middle Ages?: From Aristotle to "lewde calendars"'

London Medieval Society Colloquium. 17 November 2012.

01-Oct-2012 Medieval Manuscripts Seminar

Organiser of the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar Series

01-Jan-2004 'Dated and datable manuscripts in London'

'Dated and datable manuscripts in London', Oxford History of the Book Seminar (May 2004)

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