Research News: Dr Phil Taylor

On Tuesday 16 February Dr Taylor will present a paper entitled ‘‘Divers singinge bookes’: Homogeneity and Identity in the Paston Music Manuscript Collection’ at a conference held at Chawton House Library, Hampshire. The paper pursues questions arising from Dr Taylor’s doctoral research on the Paston manuscript collection, an important collection of musical sources from the turn of the seventeenth century.

The conference, on the subject of Music, Literature, Illustration: Collaboration and networks in English manuscript culture, 1500 – 1700, is hosted by Southampton University and further details may be found at http://www.soton.ac.uk/cmrc/news/conferences/2009_10/music_literature.html