Medieval Manuscripts Seminars 2005-2006 For this academic year all meetings start at 5.30pm and, take place in the Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies, Senate House Library, 4th Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1. Meetings are free and are followed by a wine reception.

06 Oct 05 Mr Peter Kidd (British Library), New Light on William de Brailes

20 Oct 05 Dr Peter Porman (Warburg Institute), The Study of Hebrew in 13th-century England: The Corpus Christi College (Oxford) Collection

24 Nov 05 Professor David D'Avray, FBA (University College London), The Loss Rate of Medieval Manuscripts

01 Dec 05 Professor Michael Clanchy, FBA (Institute of Historical Research), Learning to Read: repeating the Roman alphabet across the medieval millennium, 500-1500 **

** Professor Clanchy's paper will be followed by a special wine and cheese reception generously sponsored by the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature. Please join us.

12 Jan 06 Dr Nicolas Bell (British Library), An Unusual Cistercian Missal in the British Library: Hirsch.III.934

26 Jan 06 Dr Christopher de Hamel, FSA (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge) on The Library of Abbot Simon of St Albans - University of London Annual Palaeography Lecture, a John Coffin Memorial Lecture. This event starts 6pm in the Seng Centre with reception to follow in the Durning Lawrence Library.

23 Feb 06 Dr Scot McKendrick (British Library), Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, and Roman History: the evidence of loss

02 Mar 06 Dr Tessa Webber (Trinity College, Cambridge), The handwriting of twelfth-century documents and the origins of Anglicana

04 May 06 Professor M. Alison Stones, FSA ( University of Pittsburgh) Writing French Manuscripts 1260-1320

If you are interested in joining or have enquiries, please contact Pamela Robinson: pamela.robinson@sas.ac.uk