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Professor Bernard J. Muir   Bernard

FELLOW OF THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES AND PROFESSOR OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES, ENGLISH DEPARTMENT, THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
Professor Bernard Muir is currently working on a project titled 'The Digital History of the Manuscript Book'. This project, which has funding from a teaching development grant from the University of Melbourne, uses manuscript resources from Victorian collections (SLV and Ballarat Fine Art Gallery in particular) to illustrate both the evolution of scripts and the preparation and presentation of texts preserved in manuscript format. Since these collections are limited in the range of scripts and genres of books represented, supplementary materials will be used from overseas collections (esp. The Bodleian Library, The British Library, and the J.P. Getty Museum). The project will be presented on a DVD that is to include numerous original illustrations of various aspects of the making of the codex and video components demonstrating how gatherings/quires were sewn together on a frame in preparation for binding and also how medieval scribes worked.

Consultancies and Directorships
~ Consultant for the project to produce a digital facsimile of ‘The Vernon Manuscript’ in the series ‘Bodleian Digital Texts’.
~ Director of Evellum (www.evellum.com), producer of fine scholarly digital facsimiles of medieval manuscripts.
~ Project Manager and Publisher of the Bodleian Digital Texts series (Oxford).

Select Publications

Books

  • MUIR, B.J. and A.J. Turner, eds. Terence’s Comedies. Oxford Digital Texts 2. Oxford, The Bodleian Library. (Scheduled for release in December, 2006).
  • MUIR, B.J., and A.J. TURNER, eds.   The Lives of Saints Oda, Oswald and Dunstan by Eadmer of Canterbury. Oxford: Oxford Medieval Latin Texts, 2006.
  • MUIR, B.J., ed. The Electronic Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry. DVD / 2 CD ROMs. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2006.
  • MUIR, B.J., ed. MS Junius 11. Bodleian Digital Texts 1. CD ROM. Oxford, The Bodleian Library, 2004.
  • MUIR, B.J., ed. Reading Texts and Images: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Art and Patronage in Honour of Margaret M. Manion. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002.
  • MUIR, B.J. Ductus: Digital Latin Paleography. CD ROM. Melbourne: Evellum.com, 2002.
  • MUIR, B.J., ed.  The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry. 2 vols. 2nd ed. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002.
  • MUIR, B.J., and A.J. TURNER, eds.  The Life of St Wilfrid by Edmer. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1998.
  • MANION, M.M. and B.J. MUIR, eds. The Art of the Book : Its Place in Medieval Worship. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1998.
  • MUIR, B.J., and A.J. TURNER, eds. The Life of St Wilfrid by Edmer. CD ROM. 2nd ed. Melbourne: Evellum.com, 2006.
  • MUIR, B.J., ed.  The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry. 2 vols. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1994.
  • MUIR, B.J. The Exeter Book: A Bibliography. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1992.
  • MANION, M.M. and B.J. MUIR, eds. Medieval Texts and Images: Studies of Manuscripts from the Middle Ages. London: Harwood Academic Publishers, London and Craftsman House, Sydney, 1991.
  • MUIR, B.J., ed. Leoth: Six Old English Poems. New York and London: Gordon and Breach, 1989.
  • MUIR, B.J., ed. A Pre-Conquest English Prayerbook. The Henry Bradshaw Society, Volume 103. Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1998.

Recent Publications and in Press

  • MUIR, B.J. ‘Issues for Editors of Anglo-Saxon Poetry in Manuscript Form’, in Inside Old English—Essays in Honour of Bruce Mitchell, ed. J. Walmesley, Oxford, Blackwell; 181-202. (2005)
  • MUIR, B.J. ‘Anthologists, Poets and Scribes in Anglo-Saxon England’, Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association 1; 99-118. (2005)
  • MUIR, B.J.  ‘The Genealogy of Christ and the Decoration of Folio 188 of The Book of Kells’, in Reading Texts and Images: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Art and Patronage in Honour of Margaret M. Manion, ed. B.J. Muir, University of Exeter; 7-17. (2002)
  • MUIR, B.J.  ‘Introduction’, in Reading Texts and Images: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Art and Patronage in Honour of Margaret M. Manion, ed. B.J. Muir, University of Exeter; xvii-xxv.  (2002)
  • MUIR, B.J.  ‘The Early Insular Prayerbook Tradition and the Development of the Book of Hours’, in The Art of the Book : Its Place in Medieval Worship, eds. M.M. Manion and B.J. Muir, University of Exeter Press; pp. 1-12. (1998)