McKendrick, Scot 1958-

PERSONAL: Born March 26, 1958, in Dundee, Scotland; son of James Irvine (an industrial engineer) and June Jean McKendrick; married Alison Mary Adger, 1985; children: Iona Jean Euphemia, Imogen Mary Jessie, Alexander James Michael. Ethnicity:“Scottish.”Education: Oxford University, M.A. (hons.), 1982; Courtauld Institute of Art, London, Ph. D., 1988. Religion: Church of Scotland.

ADDRESSES: Home—Cockham, Berkshire, England. Office—Department of Manuscripts, British Library, 96 Euston Rd., London NW1 2DB, England. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: British Library, London, England, curator responsible for Latin and Greek manuscripts, 1986-97, curator of classical, Byzantine, and biblical manuscripts, 1997-2003, head of medieval and earlier manuscripts, 2003-05, head of western manuscripts, 2006—. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, curator, 1989; London Research Center for Illuminated Manuscripts, member; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, guest scholar, 1999; Stanley Spencer Gallery, trustee, 2004—; Sir Winston Churchill Archive trust, trustee, 2006; consultant. University of London, faculty member at School of Advanced Studies, 1995—, fellow of Courtauld Institute of Art, 1997—; speaker at other institutions, including Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, and universities of Cambridge, Bristol, Leeds, and Oxford, England, Berlin, Germany, Lille and Paris, France, and Leiden, Netherlands.

MEMBER: Society of Antiquaries (fellow), Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections.

AWARDS, HONORS: Eugène Baie Prize, best publication on the history of Flemish civilization, culture, or art, 1998-2002, and Eric Mitchell Prize, best exhibition catalog, 2002-03, both for Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe.

WRITINGS

(Coeditor) The British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts (New Series), 1976-1980, British Library (London, England), 1995.

The History of Alexander the Great: An Illuminated Manuscript of Vasco da Lucena’s French Translation of the Ancient Text by Quintus Curtius Rufus, J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, CA), 1996.

(Coeditor) Illuminating the Book: Makers and Interpreters; Essays in Honour of Janet Backhouse, British Library (London, England), 1998.

(Editor) The Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts in the British Library, Volume 1, British Library (London, England), 1999.

(Coeditor and contributor) The Bible as Book: The Transmission of the Greek Text, British Library (London, England), 2003.

(Coauthor) Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe (exhibition catalog), J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, CA), 2003.

Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts, 1400-1550, British Library (London, England), 2003.

In a Monastery Library: Preserving Codex Sinaiticus and the Greek Written Heritage, British Library (London, England), 2006.

(Coauthor) Bible Manuscripts, British Library (London, England), 2007.

Contributor to books, including Fake? The Art of Deception, edited by M. Jones, British Museum (London, England), 1990;England and the Low Countries in the Late Middle Ages, edited by C.M. Barron and N. Saul, 1995;Medieval Boom Production: The Latin Classics, edited by C. Chavannes-Mazel and M. Smith, 1996;The Mythical Quest, British Library, 1996; and Under the Influence: The Concept of Influence and the Study of Illuminated Manuscripts, edited by A. Bovey and J. Lowden, Brepols (Turnhout, Belgium), 2006; and to exhibition catalogs. Contributor to periodicals, including British Library Journal, English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700, and Burlington.