Neil Ripley Ker
Neil Ripley Ker
Biography
Ker was born in
In 1945 he was elected a fellow of Magdalen College and in 1946 University Reader in Palaeography. In 1968 he retired from his roles at Oxford to focus on his largest work, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries. He completed the first two volumes and most of the third and left a draft of the fourth.[4]
Legacy
Annually, the British Academy awards grants in Ker's name to scholars who publish books "that include analysis of the distinctive features of original manuscripts."[5]
Publications (selected)
- 1941: Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: a list of surviving medieval books by location with lists of donors and scribes; with a glossary.
- 1954: Fragments of Medieval Manuscripts Used as Pastedowns in Oxford Bindings, with a Survey of Oxford Binding c.1515–1620.
- 1957: Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon.
- 1960: English Manuscripts in the Century after the Norman Conquest: the Lyell lectures,1952-3.
- 1964: Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: a list of surviving medieval books by location with lists of donors and scribes; with a glossary; 2nd ed.
- 1969: Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries; vol. 1.
- 1977: Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries; vol. 2.
References
- ^ Berkhout, Carl T. (1982). "In Memoriam: Neil Ripley Ker (1908-82)". Old English Newsletter. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
- ISBN 1-85285-012-4.
- ^ Kiernan, Kevin (1998). "N. R. Ker (1908-1982)". In Damico, Helen (ed.). Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline. Vol. 2, Literature and Philology. Garland Publishing. pp. 425–437.
- ISBN 9780197262771.
- ^ "Neil Ker Memorial Fund". British Academy. 2011. Archived from the original on 6 August 2011. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
Further reading
- Doyle, A. I. (1993). Neil Ripley Ker, 1908–1982. Reprinted from 1991 lectures and memoirs, Proceedings of the British Academy, 80. Oxford University Press for the British Academy. OCLC 311053451.
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