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Magdalen Library Seminars
Monday, 21 November 2011, 7th week, 5.30pm
Summer Common Room, Magdalen College, Oxford
Dr. Tabitha Tuckett (Magdalen College, Oxford)
'Classifying the world: John Wilkins and the invention of a universal language'
You are warmly invited to the third in our new series of Magdalen Library Seminars on the College's library collections and their context. This term's seminar will be given in 7th week by Dr. Tabitha Tuckett, who will discuss the extraordinary project of the scientist John Wilkins and his colleagues in the seventeenth century to construct a universal, artificial language. Tabitha Tuckett, Assistant Librarian at Magdalen, is an experienced lexicographer and works on Classical and Renaissance literature.
The seminars are open to all and offer the opportunity to see some of the early books in the Old Library and find out about their context. Refreshments will be provided but it would help us anticipate numbers if you could reply to margaret.wainwright@magd.ox.ac.uk if you would like to attend.
Further information can be found by following this link.
Previous seminars
June 2011: Professor James Carley (York University, Toronto) John Foxe's library at Magdalen
February 2011: Dr. Christine Ferdinand (Magdalen College, Oxford) Bankruptcy and the book-trade in the eighteenth century
Simon Hopton Bequest
The Library is delighted to receive the Simon Hopton Bequest of £10,000 to purchase books for our history collection.