INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
British Library, 28th November 2017
New Sources for Book History:
Combined Methodological Approachesfor 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. Chair: Scot McKendrick
9.15 – 9.45 Ivan Boserup (The Royal Library, Copenhagen), Strategies for Separating Authentic and Forged Colonial Manuscripts of the Private Collezione Miccinelli in Naples
9.45 – 10.15 Angéline Rais (University of Oxford), Sir Thomas Phillipps’s purchases of manuscripts in Switzerland: an analysis of sources
10.15 – 10.45 Cristina Dondi (University of Oxford, CERL), From liturgical data to historical evidence in the study of books of hours
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee and tea
2nd Session. Chair: Karen Limper-Herz
11.15 – 11.45 Bettina Wagner (Staatsbibliothek, Bamberg), Methodological approaches to 15th-century blockbooks
11.45 – 12.15 Claire Bolton (Oxford), Measuring skeletons - discovering the printer
12.15 – 12.45 Sabrina Minuzzi (University of Oxford), New tricks for provenance lost in miscellanies: documentary evidence, coloured edges and historical catalogues in MEI
12.45 – 13.30 Lunch
3rd Session. Chair: Giles Mandelbrote
13.30 – 14.00Paolo Sachet (Università della Svizzera Italiana), Exploiting Antiquarian Sale Catalogues: Blueprint for the Study of Sixteenth-Century Books on Blue Paper
14.00 – 14.30 Francesca Tancini (University of Bologna), New sources for dating illustrated Victorian popular books: illustrators’ diaries, printers’ ledgers, woodblocks and drawings
14.30 – 15.00Laura Carnelos (CERL), The study of rare popular books through PATRIMONiT: a combined methodological approach
15.00 – 15.30 Richard Sharpe (University of Oxford), A hidden collection of Irish manuscripts
15.30 – 16.00Coffee and tea
Posters. Chair: Stephen Parkin
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
16.10-16.20Ilaria Andreoli (CNRS-ITEM, Paris; Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice), 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
16.30-16.40William Stoneman (Houghton Library, Harvard), Temporary Exhibition Catalogues as a Source for Book History
16.40-16.50Helwi 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
16.50-17.00Sofie Arneberg (National Library of Norway), A digital pursuit of mass produced images of the 19th century
17.00 - 17.30 Conclusions
Other posters will be presented in the Dickens room by Irène Fabry-Tehranchi (British Library), Simona Inserra, Marco Palma and their group (Catania City Library), Cristiana Iommi (Biblioteca civica Romolo Spezioli di Fermo); Rosa Parlavecchia (Catania and Salerno Universities); Christian Scheidegger (Zentralbibliothek Zürich); Sonja Svoljšak and Urša Kocjan (National and University Library’s Early Prints Collection, Ljubljana).
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)
Location: British Library, Conference Centre, 96 Euston Rd, Kings Cross, London NW1 2DB