Beyond philosophy I am also interested in the history of books. I am a member of The Bibliographical Society and a collector of early printed books and incunabula leaves. I have written about my book collecting at LibraryThing.

The Ancient Commentators at Wolfson

A while ago I published a short note on Aldus Manutius and the Aristotelian Commentators (in P. Adamson, H. Baltussen, M. Stone, eds, Philosophy, Science, and Exegesis in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Commentaries, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Suppl. 83.1 (2004), 263-8). On the same topic I organized a small exhibition of early printed books at Wolfson College, Oxford, in conjunction with a conference devoted to the ancient commentators on Aristotle in December 2012 (news item here). The books were all sixteenth century editions of ancient philosophical works, including books printed by Aldus (some images here). I prepared a short text about the books on display, which has now been published in the Bodleian Library Record  (preprint here). In March 2013 the exhibition was repeated and I gave a short talk about the collection (news item here). A shorter note has also appeared in the Wolfson College Record.

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Stoicism at the Bodleian

I organized a second book exhibition in Oxford, devoted to Stoicism and its legacy. This was at the Proscholium of the Bodleian Library, in May-June 2013 (details here). I also gave a lunchtime public talk about the exhibition (details here, recording now available via iTunes).

You can find further information from the exhibition and a list of the books here.

I am currently writing something about the transmission of Stoic texts from antiquity to the present for a volume I am editing on the reception of Stoicism. For pictures of Stoic-related books, including copies of some of the books included in the exhibition, look here.

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