Dr Scot McKendrick is Head of Western Heritage Collections at the British Library, where he has charge of manuscripts, archives, rare books, music and maps. He joined the Library in 1986 after reading Greats at Oxford and undertaking postgraduate research at the Courtauld Institute of Art. During his career at the Library he has served as Head of Western Manuscripts and Head of History and Classics. He is the author of numerous publications on manuscripts. His most recent book, jointly authored with Kathleen Doyle, is The Art of the Bible: Illuminated Manuscripts from the Medieval World (Thames and Hudson, 2016).
