13 February 2019 | 6pm | Room 522 Butler Library We are used to reading texts with our eyes—reading the words and images for their content (in fact, this is so obvious it’s odd to describe it). But we also read texts with our fingers—the feel of the materials, the act of navigating through a codex or […]
Category: Medieval & Renaissance Collections
Talk | Philology and Authenticity: Lorenzo Valla, Constantine, and Styles of Renaissance Reading
November 1, 4:30 pm Bulter 203 (with a post-talk reception in the RBML’s Kempner Gallery) Dean of Georgetown College and Professor of Classics and History at Georgetown University, Christopher Celenza will deliver the sixth Paul O. Kristeller lecture. He is the author of The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance: Language, Philosophy, and the Search […]
Exibition: Middle English Prose
In 1984, Ralph Hanna III published the first volume of the Index of Middle English Prose, listing manuscripts held by the Huntington Library in southern California; we are now almost 35 years into the project, with 24 volumes completed, and several more in preparation. One volume will represent prose in Middle English held in manuscripts […]
Fri., Apr. 17th at 6:00 PM: “Writing and Reading Manuscripts in Germany in the 16th Century”
The Paul Oskar Kristeller Memorial Lecture Prof. Dr. Eef Overgaauw Director, Manuscripts Department Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin When Johannes Gutenberg and his followers started printing books, around 1452, the production of manuscripts did not come to a sudden end. On the contrary: during the second half of the 15th century, the production of handwritten books increased […]
Bertykin’s Books
Libraries care about library catalogues, or, more broadly, lists of books, compiled for all sorts of reasons. On the back flyleaf of a manuscript of a well-known grammatical text is a list of medical books: it's in the same hand as that of the grammar, and it ends with a curious statement: The sum of Bertykin, […]