Papers of Neil R. Ker relating to his lectures and talks

Title

Papers of Neil R. Ker relating to his lectures and talks

Shelfmark

MS. 21050/69

Summary

Comprises:

Folder 1: papers relating to scripts, including

typescript and images relating to Ker's verbal contribution to a discussion on nomenclature of scripts at a session of the Comité international de paléographie, n.d., [probably Munich, 1981]. In French.

notes for a lecture on 11th century Exeter script

correspondence with Bertram Schofield and related notes concerning nomenclature of scripts and Ker's invention of the term 'anglicana', 1962-1963

notes on the script of chancery warrants of the late 14th century, 1966

notes and images concerning nomenclature of scripts

notes on aspects of scripts

Folder 2: papers relating to libraries and collections, including

notes for, and text of, a lecture on Windsor manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, 1940 and n.d. [c.1940]

text of a lecture on describing manuscripts given by Ker at the request of the Standing Committee of National and University Libraries, [Southampton?], 1958

typescript notes on 'The early-12th-century English manuscript. New methods come into use; Old methods fall out of use; Arrangement of hair and flesh sides and methods of ruling', 1944

notes for, and text of, a lecture on Winchester manuscripts

notes for, and text of, a paper on the ruling and pricking of early Würzburg manuscripts, read to the E.A. Lowe seminar, Oxford, Trinity Term, 1948

Folder 3: papers relating to the cataloguing of manuscripts, including a short presentation concerning the production of a catalogue of medical manuscripts in Oxford, Ker offering to undertake the work required in Oxford and other U.K. libraries, n.d. [c.1950]. The offer may have been made to the Manuscripts Subcommittee of the Standing Committee of National and University Libraries. The file also contains brief notes on the following manuscripts:

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. F. 6. 3; Bodl. 362; Digby 79; Laud. Misc. 607

Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS. 69; 189

Oxford, Oriel College, MS. 4

Oxford, New College, MS. 163; 164; 165; 166; 168; 170

Folder 4: list of slides for lectures at King's College London, 12 Mar 1959, and Oxford, 11 Feb 1972

Date

1944-[1981] and n.d. [c.1940-1950]

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (4 folders)