Matthew Holford

The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)

Title	Description	People	Date
Meet the pigments: the art and science of early English decoration	Discover how cutting-edge scientific techniques are transforming our understanding of medieval manuscripts, and how book production began to recover under King Alfred and his successors	Matthew Holford, Richard Gameson, Helen Cook	24 May, 2022
Meet the Manuscripts: Meet the Fragments	Exploring their physical function in manuscripts – and the bad things that can happen when they are removed for study – as well as showing what they can contribute to book history.	Andrew Honey, Matthew Holford	20 October, 2021
Meet the Manuscripts: hidden treasures of medieval illumination	Matthew Holford, Tolkien Curator of Medieval Manuscripts, and Martin Kauffmann, Head of Early and Rare Collections, in conversation about the artists, patrons and significance of three extraordinary manuscripts.	Martin Kauffmann, Matthew Holford	28 May, 2021
Meet the Manuscripts: judging a book by its cover	The covers can tell us as much about a book as its contents. This workshop explores the secrets which bookbindings reveal about the uses and histories of medieval manuscripts.	Matthew Holford, Andrew Honey	29 March, 2021