A day symposium on Friday 21 March 2025 in the Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, Weston Library
Registration is free:
https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/mar25/from-jean-le-bon-to-good-duke-humfrey
11 am-12.30pm: Origins
Clive Sneddon (St Andrews), Translating the Bible into medieval French
Emily Guerry (Oxford), The Cholet Master and manuscript illumination in Paris at the end of the 13th century
2.00-3.15pm: From France to England
Laure Rioust (Bibliothèque nationale de France), Biblical manuscripts in the libraries of Kings John II the Good and Charles V the Wise: heritage and dispersal
Laure Miolo (Oxford) and Jean-Patrice Boudet (Université d’Orléans), The circulation and spoliation of scientific manuscripts between France and England in the Hundred Years’ War
3.45-5.00pm: The manuscript in England
David Rundle (Kent), The Lancastrian moment: the manuscript’s English owners
Daniel Wakelin (Oxford), Conclusion and avenues for further research
Reception and launch of the digital facsimile of MS. Duke Humfrey c. 1