Dr Suzanne Reynolds

Senior Curator Manuscripts & Rare Books

After completing a PhD at the Warburg Institute (University of London), Suzanne Reynolds was Lecturer in Medieval Literature at the University of Birmingham from 1992-1998, and was elected Munby Fellow in Bibliography at the University Library in Cambridge for 2004–5. She is now Senior Curator Manuscripts & Rare Books at the Fitzwilliam, where she has worked since late 2014.

Suzanne has published widely on medieval and renaissance books, notably on Italian illuminated manuscripts and early printed books in Cambridge and at Holkham Hall. She is part of the Cambridge-based MACH team, and from 2019-2021 was Co-I on the Leverhulme-funded project Unveiling the Invisible, exploring mathematical methods for the virtual restoration of illuminated manuscripts (inpainting).

Suzanne is curatorial lead for the MINIARE group, which has pioneered the technical analysis of illuminated manuscripts. She is currently Co-I on an AHRC-funded project ‘The Pigments of British Illuminators 600–1600: A Scientific and Cultural Study, led by Prof Richard Gameson, University of Durham, and is curating a display to showcase the project’s discoveries in the Rothschild Gallery of the Fitzwilliam Museum, from 18 October 2022 to 22 January 2023: Medieval Britain in Colour: 500 Years of Illuminated Manuscripts.

Email: scr42@cam.ac.uk

Publications

Sole-authored volume

A Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Holkham Hall I: Italian Manuscripts to 1500, part 1: Shelfmarks 1-399 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015), xxiv+389pp.

Medieval Reading: Grammar, Rhetoric and the Classical Text. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Co-authored volume

with Azzurra Elena Andriolo, A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges, Part 5, Incunabula: Volume 1, Books printed in Italy before 1501, in press, 296pp. IN PRESS

Co-edited volume

with P. Bruschetti, B. Gialluca, P. Giulierini and J. Swaddling, Seduzione Etrusca: Dai Segreti di Holkham Hall alle Meraviglie del British Museum, catalogue of an exhibition at MAEC, Cortona, 21 March - 31 July 2014) (Milan: Skira Editore, 2014), 477pp.

Sole-authored papers and contributions to catalogues, collected essays and conference volumes

‘Thomas Hobart, “un istitutore di sensato guidizio e lodevole contegno”’, in Seduzione Etrusca: Dai Segreti di Holkham Hall alle Meraviglie del British Museum (MAEC, Cortona, 21 March - 31 July 2014) (Milan: Skira Editore, 2014), 53-63

‘Thomas Coke e la storiografia romana; le virtù reppublicane e il giovane virtuoso’, in Seduzione Etrusca: Dai Segreti di Holkham Hall alle Meraviglie del British Museum (MAEC, Cortona, 21 March - 31 July 2014) (Milan: Skira Editore, 2014), 79-89

Catalogue entries on manuscripts, archival documents, drawings, and paintings in Seduzione Etrusca: Dai Segreti di Holkham Hall alle Meraviglie del British Museum (MAEC, Cortona, 21 March - 31 July 2014) (Milan: Skira Editore, 2014), 91-95, 96-98, 98-99, 99-101, 329-30

Co-authored papers and contributions to catalogues, collected essays and conference volumes

*[peer-reviewed article and edition] with Bruno Gialluca, ‘Il consaputo disegno di Tito Livio: Thomas Coke, Filippo Buonarroti ed una edizione illustrata di Livio’, Symbolae antiquariae 7 (2104) (to be issued 2017), 91pp. IN PRESS

with Christine Hiskey, ‘Thomas Coke (1697-1759): fondazioni e formazioni’, in Seduzione Etrusca: Dai Segreti di Holkham Hall alle Meraviglie del British Museum (MAEC, Cortona, 21 March - 31 July 2014) (Milan: Skira Editore, 2014), 39-52

with Bruno Gialluca, ‘La pubblicazione del De Etruria Regali’ in Seduzione Etrusca: Dai Segreti di Holkham Hall alle Meraviglie del British Museum (MAEC, Cortona, 21 March - 31 July 2014) (Milan: Skira Editore, 2014), 319-27

with Bruno Gialluca, catalogue entries on manuscripts, archival documents, drawings, and paintings in Seduzione Etrusca: Dai Segreti di Holkham Hall alle Meraviglie del British Museum (MAEC, Cortona, 21 March - 31 July 2014) (Milan: Skira Editore, 2014), 102-105, 128-29, 133-34, 136-37, 286-89

Digital Publications

*with Lucilla Burn, ‘Richard, Viscount Fitzwilliam (1745-1816)’, article for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: scheduled to appear as part of 2017 update of online edition, http://www.oxforddnb.com/

‘Cataloguing Medieval Manuscripts: Some Reflections’, Cambridge University Libraries Information Bulletin, issue 77, Michaelmas 2015