David Shaw – Work in progress

'Poelman and Plantin -- publishing the classics in sixteenth-century Antwerp'
Vlaamse Werkgroep Boekgeschiedenis
Wednesday 6 April 2011, Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp

Although Antwerp was a relative late-comer to the printing of texts of classical authors, a number of printers included these books in their production from about 1525 onwards. The establishment of the Officina Plantiniana saw a new development in this market, with the Antwerp merchant Theodor Poelman (Theodorus Pulmannus) becoming one of Plantin's regular editors of classical texts. Poelman not only researched medieval manuscripts and the work of earlier scholars, he also formed a significant collection of manuscripts of his own. Many of his books and papers survive in the Library and Archive at the Plantin-Moretus Museum.
To be repeated as 'Publishing the Classics in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp: Theodoor Poelman and Christophe Plantin' in the series of research lectures at the School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent, Wednesday, 9 November 2011, 5.1.5 pm.
'Development of the Cathedral Library Collections in the 17th Century'
Thursday 12 May 2011, 6.30 pm, Canterbury Cathedral Archives.
To be repeated in the 2011/2012 programme of the History of Libraries Research Seminar, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

‘A unidentified French incunable: Sir John Mandeville, Le lapidaire en francoys’, [Lyon, c.1495–1496].
Accepted for publication in The Electronic British Library Journal.
(with Sarah Griffin) ‘William Somner and his books: provenance evidence for the networks of a seventeenth-century Canterbury antiquarian’
‘One book, five printers: Shared printing in early sixteenth-century Paris (Franciscus Lichetus, Commentaria, Paris, 1520)’: article on shared printing in early sixteenth-century Paris and the identification of the printers who produced the complex pattern of different sections of this theological work.
‘A book list of an early sixteenth-century English humanist: George Marshall’.

Catalogue of the British Library’s books printed in France, 1501–1520.
Bibliography of editions of the Satires of Juvenal (Decius Iunius Iuuenalis) printed before 1601.
Bibliography of books printed in Paris by Pierre Vidoue (Petrus Vidouaeus), 1517–1544.

History of the Cathedral Library in Canterbury and its collections (in progress)
A new Wiki-based resource, using Semantic MediaWiki software, developed from an earlier HTML-based set of files: History of Canterbury Cathedral Library
Experimental Semantic MediaWiki project to record 16th-century editions of Juvenal.
Publication of Peter Forsskål's Tankar om borgerliga friheten (1759)
Contributions to Wikipedia relating to Canterbury and to bibliographical topics.