New sources for book history – International Conference

Organized by: Laura Carnelos (Marie Curie Fellow at CERL), Stephen Parkin (British Library), Cristina Dondi (Lincoln College - Oxford), Secretary of CERL and creator of Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI)

Speaker(s): Angéline Rais,Bettina Wagner,Christian Scheidegger,Claire Bolton,Cristiana Iommi,Cristina Dondi,Francesca Tancini,Giles Mandelbrote,Helwi Blom,Ilaria Andreoli,Ilenia Maschietto,Irène Fabry-Tehranchi,Ivan Boserup,Juliette Reboul,Kristian Jensen,Laura Carnelos,Marco Palma,Paolo Sachet,Richard Sharpe,Rindert Jagersma,Rosa Parlavecchia,Sabrina Minuzzi,Scot McKendrick,Simona Inserra,Sofie Arneberg,Sonja Svoljšak,Stephen Parkin,Toby Burrows,Urša Kocjan,Veronika Girininkaitė,William Stoneman

A one-day conference on “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.) held at the British Library.

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

SESSIONS

First Session

FIRST 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

Second Session

SECOND 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

Third Session

THIRD SESSION
Chair: Giles Mandelbrote

– 13.30-14.00: Paolo 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
– 14.30-15.00: Laura 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

– 15.30-16.00: Coffee and tea

Posters

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
– 16.10-16.20: Ilaria Andreoli (CNRS-ITEM, Paris; Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice) and 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: Anna de Wilde, 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

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).

Recordings

Sofie Arneberg (National Library of Norway): A digital pursuit of mass produced images of the 19th century: recording
Anna de Wilde: MEDIATE: Printed catalogues of private libraries as a source for European Book History; Potentialities and Challenges: recording
William Stoneman (Houghton Library, Harvard): Temporary Exhibition Catalogues as a Source for Book History: recording
Veronika Girininkaitė (University Library of Vilnius): Creating the database of the correspondence of Early Modern Vilnius university professors : recording
Ilaria Andreoli (CNRS-ITEM, Paris; Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice) and Ilenia Maschietto (Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice): The Essling project: the census and the copies: recording
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: recording
Francesca Tancini (University of Bologna): New sources for dating illustrated Victorian popular books: illustrators’ diaries, printers’ ledgers, woodblocks and drawings: recording
Paolo Sachet (Università della Svizzera Italiana): Exploiting Antiquarian Sale Catalogues: Blueprint for the Study of Sixteenth-Century Books on Blue Paper: recording
Cristina Dondi (University of Oxford, CERL): From liturgical data to historical evidence in the study of books of hours: recording
Sabrina Minuzzi (University of Oxford): New tricks for provenance lost in miscellanies: documentary evidence, coloured edges and historical catalogues in MEI: recording
Claire Bolton (Oxford): Measuring skeletons – discovering the printer: recording
Richard Sharpe (University of Oxford): A hidden collection of Irish manuscripts: recording
Bettina Wagner (Staatsbibliothek, Bamberg): Methodological approaches to 15th-century blockbooks: recording
Angéline Rais (University of Oxford): Sir Thomas Phillipps’s purchases of manuscripts in Switzerland: an analysis of sources: recording
Ivan Boserup (The Royal Library, Copenhagen): Strategies for Separating Authentic and Forged Colonial Manuscripts of the Private Collezione Miccinelli in Naples: recording
Laura Carnelos (CERL), The study of rare popular books through PATRIMONiT: a combined methodological approach: recording