James Patrick Ronaldson Lyell
James Patrick Ronaldson Lyell (1871–1948) was a solicitor, author, book collector, and bibliographer. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and at University College London.[1]
Career and writing[edit]
Lyell was admitted solicitor in 1894 eventually becoming senior partner of Gard, Lyell & Co.[2]
He began to collect books in 1889 and was especially interested in Spanish book illustration.[3] He wrote a biography of Cardinal Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros, archbishop of Toledo,[4] and Early Book Illustration in Spain.[5]
Lyell acquired medieval manuscripts and bequeathed 100 to the Bodleian Library[6][7]
Lyell Readership in Bibliography[edit]
The Lyell readership in bibliography, known as the Lyell Lectures, was established at Oxford in his will.[8] After his death, Keeper of the Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library, Richard William Hunt, writing of the Lyell bequest noted, "he was a self-taught bibliophile and scholar of extraordinary enthusiasm and discrimination, and one who deserves to be remembered not only by Oxford but by the whole bibliographical world."[9]
The Lyell Lectures are considered to be a major British bibliographical lecture series.[10]
The Papers of James Patrick Ronaldson Lyell are in the Bodleian Libraries' archives and manuscripts.[11]
Publications[edit]
- Lyell, James P. R. 1917. Cardinal Ximenes, Statesman, Ecclesiastic, Soldier and Man of Letters: With an Account of the Complutensian Polyglot Bible. London: Grafton & Co.
- Lyell, James P. R. 1918. A Fifteenth Century Bibliography. London: Grafton & Co.
- Lyell, James P. R., Robertus de Fano, and Bernadinus de Bergamo. 1918. An Early Italian Press: The First Printers at Cagli. [London (England)]: [Grafton].
- Lyell, James P. R. 1923. Printing in the Fifteenth Century: An Account of Two Unrecorded Spanish Incunabula. [London]: [Grafton].
- Lyell, James P. R., and Konrad Haebler. 1926. Early Book Illustration in Spain. London: Grafton & Co.
- Lyell, James P. R., and Bodleian Library. 1933. King James I and the Bodleian Library Catalogue of 1620. Oxford: John Johnson.
- Lyell, James P. R. 1936. “A Tract on James VI’s Succession to the English Throne.” The English Historical Review LI (CCII): 289–301.
- Lyell, James P. R., and Bernard Quaritch (Firm). 1952. Manuscripts, Mostly from the Collection of the Late J.P.R. Lyell. Early Printed Books, 15th & 16th Centuries. London: B. Quaritch Ltd.
References[edit]
- ^ Rhodes, Dennis E. "Lyell, James Patrick Ronaldson." Oxford Dictionary of National Bibliograhy 23 September 2004.
- ^ Rhodes, Dennis E. "Lyell, James Patrick Ronaldson." Oxford Dictionary of National Bibliograhy 23 September 2004.
- ^ Lyell, James P. R. 1925. “Notes on Early Book Illustration in Spain.” The Library 4-VI (1): 1–41.
- ^ Lyell, James Patrick Ronaldson. 1917. Cardinal Ximenes : Statesman, Ecclesiastic, Soldier and Man of Letters. London: Grafton & Co.
- ^ Lyell, James P. R., and Konrad Haebler. 1926. Early Book Illustration in Spain. London: Grafton & Co.
- ^ Bodleian Library (Oxford), James Patrick Ronaldson Lyell, and Albinia Catherine De La Mare. 1971. Catalogue of the Collection of Medieval Manuscripts Bequeathed to the Bodleian Library, Oxford by James P. R. Lyell. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ J. P. R. Lyell, ‘Books and book collecting’, Bodleian Library Record 3 (1950–51), 278–281.
- ^ The Lyell Lectures.
- ^ R. W. Hunt, ‘The Lyell bequest’, Bodleian Library Record, 3 (1950–51), 68–72.
- ^ Bowman, J.H. (1 Oct 2012). British Librarianship and Information Work 2001–2005. Ashgate. p. 157. ISBN 978-1-4094-8506-3.
- ^ Papers of James Patrick Ronaldson Lyell Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository.