Anthony Ian Doyle, FBA (24 October 1925 – 4 February 2018), commonly known as Ian Doyle, was a British librarian and bibliographer. From 1958 to 1982, he was the Keeper of Rare Books at Durham University Library; he was also a reader in bibliography at Durham University from 1972 to 1985. He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1992 and a corresponding fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 1991; he received the Sir Israel Gollancz Prize from the British Academy in 1983, the Chancellor's Medal from Durham University in 2010 and the Gold Medal of the Bibliographical Society in 2014.[1][2]
Three festschrifts were published in his honour:
- Richard Beadle and Alan Piper: New Science Out of Old Books: Studies in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books in Honour of A. I. Doyle (London: Scholar Press, 1995);
- A. J. Minnis (ed.), Late-Medieval Religious Texts and Their Transmission: Essays in Honour of A.I. Doyle (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994);
- Corinne Saunders, Richard Lawrie and Laurie Atkinson (eds), Middle English Manuscripts and Their Legacies: A Volume in Honour of Ian Doyle, Library of the Written Word, vol. 102 (Leiden: Brill, 2021).
References
edit- ^ A. S. G. Edwards, "Ian Doyle, F.B.A.", The Library, vol. 19, no. 3 (2018), pp. 376–381.
- ^ Richard Beadle, "Ian Doyle", Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, vol. 21 (2023), pp. 71–106.