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Annual General Meeting: The archival afterlife of Francis Bacon (d. 1626): from Hartlib to Harley, via Lambeth

Richard Sarjeantson

McKenna Room, Christ Church

Wednesday, 7 June, 2017 - 16:30

Before finally coming to rest in the British Museum and Lambeth Palace Library, Francis Bacon’s posthumous manuscripts underwent some complex and rather troubled journeys. This talk, which offers the first full reconstruction of their passage, will also take the opportunity to reflect more broadly on the relationship between manuscript, print and collecting in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Dr Sarjeantson's lecture will follow the Annual General Meeting of the Society (which begins at 4:30 p.m.). Refreshments will be served.

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Calendar of Events 2016–2017

Monday 21 November 2016
     Weston Library Lecture Theatre at 5.15 p.m.
MARTYN OULD
Paper for the Press: sourcing and using paper at Oxford University Press 1670–1780

Monday 6 February 2017
     Weston Library Lecture Theatre at 5.15 p.m.
BENJAMIN WARDHAUGH
   (University of Oxford)
Defacing Euclid: printing and annotating the Elements of Geometry in early modern Britain

Monday 27 February 2017
     Weston Library Lecture Theatre at 5.15 p.m.
ADAM SMYTH
   (University of Oxford)
‘Tatters allegoricall’: reading and not reading printed waste in early modern books

Monday 6 March 2017
     Weston Library Lecture Theatre at 5.15 p.m.
EMMA SMITH
   (University of Oxford)
Marital marginalia: the books of Thomas and Isabella Hervey (ca 1675–1694)

Monday 8 May 2017
     Christ Church Upper Library at 5.15 p.m.
David Rundle
   (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
More than a house for books: collecting and Christ Church library

Monday 22 May 2017
     Weston Library Lecture Theatre at 5.15 p.m.
Alessandra Panzanelli Fratoni
   (15cBooktrade, based at the British Library)
Reconstructing dispersed collections: Burney and Consul Smith in the British Library

Wednesday 7 June 2017
   McKenna Room, Christ Church
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Meeting to begin at 4.30 p.m. Lecture to follow at 5.15 after a brief interval for tea.
Richard Serjeantson
   (Trinity College, Cambridge)
The archival afterlife of Francis Bacon (d. 1626): from Hartlib to Harley, via Lambeth

Visits (held jointly with the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles)

Wednesday 22 February 2017 at 3.00 p.m.
Visit to LINCOLN COLLEGE LIBRARY by kind invitation of the Librarian, Fiona Piddock. Places are limited, and those wishing to attend are asked to inform the Secretary at least one week in advance.