Si svolgerà il 24 ottobre ad Edimburgo, presso la Biblioteca nazionale di Scozia, una giornata di studio dedicata agli incunaboli ( libri stampati con la tecnica a caratteri mobili tra la metà del XV secolo e l'anno 1500 incluso, detti anche "quattrocentine").
La partecipazione, per chi fosse interessato, è gratuita, ma richiede una registrazione (possibile fino al 5 ottobre) da fare scrivendo a
rarebooks@nls.uk.
Di seguito il programma dettagliato della giornata.
Incunabula: people, places, products and
their relationships
National Library of Scotland, 24 October
2018
Convenors: Anette Hagan and Robert
Betteridge
This one-day seminar marks the
completion of the National Library of Scotland incunabula cataloguing project.
It aims to explore the relationships between 15th-century printed
books and their places of production, authors, printers and aspects of material
culture found in illumination, rubrication and bindings. It brings together
academics and librarians working with incunabula.
10.00-10.10 Welcome
10.10-11.30 Session 1: Centres of Book
Production
Laura Cooijmans-Keizer (Edinburgh
University Library)
Early printing along the IJssel:
the production of incunabula in Deventer, Low Countries
Dr Elma Brenner (Wellcome
Collection)
Thomas Le Forestier and early
medical printing in Rouen
Ester Camilla Peric (University
of Udine)
An agreement for the sale of
incunabula (Padua, 1480)
11.30-11.45 Break
11.45-13.00 Session 2: Collecting in the 19th
and 20th Centuries
Robert Betteridge (National
Library of Scotland)
The National Library of
Scotland's acquisitions of incunabula during World War II
Dr Sian Prosser (Royal
Astronomical Society)
An astronomer's incunabula: the
earliest books in the Grove-Hills collection of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rhiannon Lawrence-Francis (Leeds
University Library)
Marginalia and myth in Lord
Brotherton's incunabula
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Session 3: Lightning Talks
Katherine Krick-Pridgeon
(Christ's College Library)
Incunabulum or not incunabulum? A
Christ's College Library detective story
Jane Pirie (Aberdeen University
Library)
'Initial' thoughts on an
incunabulum at Aberdeen
Andrea Vilcsek (National Library
of Hungary)
Bookbindings from the incunabula
collection of the Hungarian National Széchényi Library
Dr Sheila Hingley (Durham
University Library)
Bindings as provenance: where did
the Durham monks acquire their books?
15.00-15.15 Break
15.15-16.35 Session 4: Assembly, Collecting,
Reception 1496-1700
Dr Sarah Cusk (Lincoln College
Library)
Incunabula from Edmund Audley's
1518 gift to Lincoln College: reconstructing a private library and its place in
a 16th-century Oxford college collection
Dr Irène Fabry-Tehranchi
(Cambridge University Library)
The lovers' death in Antoine
Vérard's 1496 illuminated French prose Tristan
Elizabeth Henderson (St Andrews
University Library)
The place of incunabula in
17th-century Scottish libraries
16.35-17.00 Finish