====== NEW SOURCES FOR BOOK HISTORY ====== {{:publications:conferencepostcard_a5_i.png?800|}} ===== COMBINED METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES FOR MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS ===== ==== (text and images; material evidence; historical bibliographical and documentary sources; sale and auction catalogues; etc.…) ==== === International Conference - British Library, 28 November 2017 === \\ When Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin’s L’apparition du livre (Paris, 1958; BL: 9010.a.1/49) was first published, a new research field was opened up, launching an innovative approach to book history. Studies started to appear not only on the production, distribution and reading of books, but also more widely on the materiality, multiple uses, forms, meanings and influences of the book within a given society. Decades of systematic cataloguing, the integration of records into large databases, the development of digital tools and resources which can handle huge quantities of high-quality bibliographical data now make it possible to undertake new kinds of research.\\ The main focus of this one-day conference was to investigate what sources and methodologies are now used by librarians, historians and other such users, and what the possible outcomes of a combined methodology are.\\ The conference was organised by Laura Carnelos (Marie Curie Fellow at CERL), Stephen Parkin (Curator, Printed Heritage, British Library), and Cristina Dondi (Professor of Early European Book Heritage, Fellow of Lincoln College). Conference and videos were sponsored by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skolodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 659625. Watch the papers in CERL’s You Tube Channel, download and read them, and explore the wonderful posters below!\\ **Welcome**: Kristian Jensen, Head of Collections and Curation, British Library\\ **Introduction**: Stephen Parkin, Curator, Printed Heritage Collections (1450-1600), British Library\\ __**1st session** Chair: Scot McKendrick__\\ Ivan Boserup (The Royal Library, Copenhagen), Strategies for Separating Authentic and Forged Colonial Manuscripts of the Private Collezione Miccinelli in Naples\\ WATCH: https://youtu.be/RUjFw7fkEAI\\ Angéline Rais (University of Oxford), Sir Thomas Phillipps’s purchases of manuscripts in Switzerland: an analysis of sources\\ WATCH: https://youtu.be/ERQ_1uxsosI\\ READ:\\ Richard Sharpe (University of Oxford), A hidden collection of Irish manuscripts\\ WATCH: https://youtu.be/QcleKEgHiyI\\ __**2nd session** Chair: Karen Limper-Herz__\\ Bettina Wagner (Staatsbibliothek, Bamberg), Methodological approaches to 15th-century blockbooks\\ WATCH: https://youtu.be/bBfdzh0LryY Claire Bolton (Oxford), Measuring skeletons - discovering the printer\\ WATCH: https://youtu.be/rfWZSuJHCV8\\ READ:\\ Sabrina Minuzzi (University of Oxford), New tricks for provenance lost in miscellanies: documentary evidence, coloured edges and historical catalogues in MEI\\ WATCH: https://youtu.be/_gDx6w4F4ak\\ __**3rd session** Chair: Giles Mandelbrote__\\ Cristina Dondi (University of Oxford, CERL), From liturgical data to historical evidence in the study of books of hours\\ WATCH: https://youtu.be/lN0T441PnMQ\\ Paolo Sachet (Università della Svizzera Italiana), Exploiting Antiquarian Sale Catalogues: Blueprint for the Study of Sixteenth-Century Books on Blue Paper\\ WATCH: https://youtu.be/N4N1hq3w0O4\\ READ:\\ Francesca Tancini (University of Bologna), New sources for dating illustrated Victorian popular books: illustrators’ diaries, printers’ ledgers, woodblocks and drawings\\ WATCH: https://youtu.be/fZLhvliPnkA\\ READ:\\ Laura Carnelos (CERL), The study of rare popular books through PATRIMONiT: a combined methodological approach\\ WATCH: https://youtu.be/cWyXkc6wXFk\\ READ:\\ __**4th session** Chair: Stephen Parkin__\\ 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\\ WATCH: https://youtu.be/M2KCS1FpbJo\\ READ:\\ Ilaria Andreoli (CNRS-ITEM, Paris; Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice), Ilenia Maschietto (Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice), The Essling project: the census and the copies\\ WATCH: https://youtu.be/Js19TaL5fWA\\ READ:\\ {{:publications:poster_maschiettoandreoli.jpg?200|}}\\ {{:publications:poster_maschiettoandreoli.pdf |POSTER}}\\ Veronika Girininkaitė (University Library of Vilnius), Creating the database of the correspondence of Early Modern Vilnius university professors\\ WATCH: https://youtu.be/p2Ed9UpGpSg\\ READ:\\ {{:publications:poster_girininkaite.jpg?200|}}\\ {{:publications:poster_girininkaite.pdf |POSTER}}\\ William Stoneman (Houghton Library, Harvard), Temporary Exhibition Catalogues as a Source for Book History\\ WATCH: https://youtu.be/mLfLUYM_-lA\\ 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\\ WATCH: https://youtu.be/y1tk2GyXAQc\\ READ:\\ {{:publications:poster_helwi.jpg?200|}}\\ {{:publications:poster_helwi.pdf |POSTER}}\\ Sofie Arneberg (National Library of Norway), A digital pursuit of mass produced images of the 19th century\\ WATCH: https://youtu.be/4NLNSiuRTj4\\ READ:\\ {{:publications:poster_arneberg.jpg?200|}}\\ {{:publications:poster_arneberg.pdf |POSTER}}\\ **Other posters**\\ Irène Fabry-Tehranchi (Cambridge University Library, Cambridge)\\ READ:\\ {{:publications:poster_irene_fabry-tehranchi.jpg?200|}}\\ {{:publications:poster_irene_fabry-tehranchi.pdf |POSTER}}\\ Simona Inserra, Marco Palma and their group (Catania City Library, Catania)\\ READ:\\ {{:publications:poster_inserrapalma.jpg?200|}}\\ {{:publications:poster_inserrapalma.pdf |POSTER}}\\ Cristiana Iommi (Biblioteca civica Romolo Spezioli, Fermo)\\ READ:\\ {{:publications:poster_iommi.jpg?200|}}\\ {{:publications:poster_iommi.pdf |POSTER}}\\ Rosa Parlavecchia (Calabria and Salerno Universities)\\ READ:\\ {{:publications:poster_parlavecchia.jpg?200|}}\\ {{:publications:poster_parlavecchia.pdf |POSTER}}\\ Christian Scheidegger (Zentralbibliothek, Zürich)\\ READ:\\ {{:publications:poster_scheidegger.jpg?200|}}\\ {{:publications:poster_scheidegger.pdf |POSTER}}\\ Sonja Svoljšak and Urša Kocjan (National and University Library’s Early Prints Collection, Ljubljana)\\ READ:\\ {{:publications:poster_svoljsakkocjan.jpg?200|}}\\ {{:publications:poster_svoljsakkocjan.pdf |POSTER}}\\