Conferenza interazionale NEW SOURCES FOR BOOK HISTORY, British Library, 28 novembre 2017

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

British Library, 28th November 2017

New Sources for Book History: Combined Methodological Approaches for Manuscripts and Printed Books (text and images; material evidence; historical bibliographical and documentary sources; sale and auction catalogues; etc.…)

Programme

8.30 - 9.00        Registration

9.00 - 9.15        Welcome: Kristian Jensen, Head of Collections and Curation, BL

Introduction: Stephen Parkin, Curator, Printed Heritage Collections (1450-1600), BL

1st Session

9.15 - 9.35        Richard Sharpe (University of Oxford), A hidden collection of Irish manuscripts

9.35 - 9.55        Ivan Boserup (The Royal Library, Copenhagen), Strategies for Separating Authentic and Forged Colonial Manuscripts of the Private Collezione Miccinelli in Naples

9.55 – 10.15      Angéline Rais (University of Oxford), Sir Thomas Phillipps’s purchases of manuscripts in Switzerland: an analysis of sources

10.15 – 10.45    Discussion

10.45 – 11.15    Coffee and tea

2nd Session

11.15 – 11.35    Bettina Wagner (Staatsbibliothek, Bamberg), Methodological approaches to 15th-century blockbooks

11.35 – 11.55    Claire Bolton (Oxford), Measuring skeletons - discovering the printer

11.55 – 12.15    Cristina Dondi (University of Oxford, CERL), From liturgical data to historical evidence in the study of books of hours

12.15 – 12.35    Sabrina Minuzzi (University of Oxford), New tricks for provenance lost in miscellanies: documentary evidence, coloured edges and historical catalogues in MEI

12.35 – 13.00    Discussion

13.00 – 14.00    Lunch

3rd Session

14.00 – 14.20    Paolo Sachet (Università della Svizzera Italiana), Exploiting Antiquarian Sale Catalogues: Blueprint for the Study of Sixteenth-Century Books on Blue Paper

14.20 – 14.40    Francesca Tancini (University of Bologna), New sources for dating illustrated Victorian popular books: illustrators’ diaries, printers’ ledgers, woodblocks and drawings

14.40 – 15.00    Laura Carnelos (CERL), The study of rare popular books through PATRIMONiT: a combined methodological approach

15.00 – 15.30    Discussion

15.30 – 16.00    Coffee and tea

16.00 – 17.00    Posters

16.00-16.10      Toby Burrows (University of Western Australia and of Oxford), Combining and visualising evidence for manuscript provenance: a digital environment for reconstructing the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps

16.10-16.20      Ilaria Andreoli (CNRS-ITEM, Paris), Ilenia Maschietto (Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice), The Essling project: the census and the copies

16.20-16.30      Veronika Girininkaitė (University Library of Vilnius), Creating the database of the correspondence of Early Modern Vilnius university professors

16.30-16.40      William Stoneman (Houghton Library, Harvard), Temporary Exhibition Catalogues as a Source for Book History

16.40-16.50      Helwi Blom, Rindert Jagersma, Juliette Reboul (Radboud University, The Netherlands), MEDIATE: Printed catalogues of private libraries as a source for European Book History; Potentialities and Challenges

16.50-17.00      Sofie Arneberg (National Library of Norway), A digital pursuit of mass produced images of the 19th century

17.00 - 17.30    Conclusions

The fee to attend is £ 10 (50 places available).

Please fill the registration form and send it to secretariat@cerl.org

https://www.cerl.org/services/seminars/main

 Organizing Committee:

Laura Carnelos, Marie Curie Fellow at CERL -- Stephen Parkin, Curator, Printed Heritage Collections (1450-1600), British Library -- Cristina Dondi, Oakeshott Senior Research Fellow at Lincoln College (Oxford), Secretary of CERL and creator of Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI)

 


Data di pubblicazione: 03/10/2017

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