The first OBS Grant has now been awarded to Katherine A. Krick, PhD candidate in the Department of History at Durham University, to fund her research trip to Oxford. Ms Krick is working on the content, visual arrangement, typography and production of the service-books of the medieval church in England and their relationships to the 1549 Book of Common Prayer. In Oxford Ms Crick will examine primary sources at the Bodleian Library and Brasenose College.
The Oxford Bibliographical Society has recently announced a new programme of grants to support research, conferences and publications. For further details please click here.
Other recent publications: T.F. Earle's Portuguese Writers and English Readers: Books by Portuguese writers printed before 1640 in the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge (2009): view title-page, contents and sample. This work has also been published in Portuguese as Escritores portugueses e leitores ingleses: livros de escritores portugueses, impressos antes de 1640, nas bibliotecas de Oxford e Cambridge (Lisbon: Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, 2014).