| A Birth Charm |
Dphil student Sian Witherden introduces a 15th Century birthing charm, one of the items on display in the Designing English Exhibition |
Sian Witherden |
18 October, 2018 |
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| How to record music on the page |
Professor Henrike Lähnemann discusses how the challenge of recording music on the page was made in the late middle ages by inventing a musical notation system |
Henrike Lähnemann |
18 October, 2018 |
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| Designing English Book Art Competition |
Professor Daniel Wakelin discusses some of the inspired entries they received from contemporary book artists in response to the Designing English Exhibition |
Daniel Wakelin |
18 October, 2018 |
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| A Tiny Book of Hours |
MPhil Student, Kierri Price, introduces a tiny book of hours - a collection of prayers and devotional material from the late 1300s that would have been read at set intervals during the day. |
Kierri Price |
18 October, 2018 |
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| Curating the exhibition 'Designing English' |
Daniel Wakelin talks about the concept behind the exhibition 'Designing English: Graphics on the Medieval Page' in the Weston Library, Oxford, and about the thrill of working with original material from the Bodleian collection at Oxford Medieval Studies. |
Daniel Wakelin, Henrike Lähnemann |
23 February, 2018 |
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| Teach us how we may pray |
AElfric of Eynsham teaches the congregation to recite the Lord’s Prayer in English, 'Thu ure faeder'. MS. Hatton 115, fol. 10r. Composed 990-995, copied in the second half of the 1000s. Read by Andy Orchard. |
Andy Orchard |
16 January, 2018 |
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| Come and dance with me in Ireland |
The lyrics of dance songs about love and longing, jotted down without music. MS. Rawl. D. 913, fol. 1r-v. Copied in the early 1300s. Read by Helen Appleton, Daniel Wakelin. |
Helen Appleton, Daniel Wakelin |
16 January, 2018 |
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| If it be played |
In the play The Burial of Christ, Joseph, Mary Magdalen and three other women cry out when they see Jesus on the Cross. MS. e Musaeo 160, fol. 141r. Copied c. 1518–1520. Read by Helen Appleton, Angela O'Brien, Daniel Sawyer, Wing Tan Lai. |
Helen Appleton, Angela O'Brien, Daniel Sawyer, Wing Tan Lai |
16 January, 2018 |
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| First entereth Wisdom |
In the play Wisdom, the devil tempts three godly people into sins – lust and other ‘French fashions’. MS. Digby 133, fol. 158r. Copied in the late 1400s. Read by Arka Chakraborty, Matthew Day, Ben Sims, Daniel Sawyer. |
Arka Chakraborty, Matthew Day, Ben Sims, Daniel Sawyer |
16 January, 2018 |
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| Listeneth now and beth not deaf! |
A travelling preacher recites a poem, warning about the horrors of death. MS. Add. E. 6 (R). Copied in the late 1200s. Read by Daniel Wakelin. |
Daniel Wakelin |
16 January, 2018 |
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| ‘Make we joy now in this feast’ |
A carol for Christmas, ‘Nowell nowell nowell’, from a book of church music. MS. Arch. Selden B. 26, fol. 14v. Copied in the mid 1400s. |
Henrike Lähnemann |
20 December, 2017 |
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