Sponsored by The Book Club of California Before the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-15th century, books were designed, written, and illustrated by hand. Today these handmade manuscripts are highly valued, and greatly sought after by collectors and institutions around the world. This presentation addresses […]
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Sponsored by The Grolier Club Joshua O’Driscoll, Assistant Curator of Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts at the Morgan Library and Museum, will speak on “Nuns at Work: The Poor Clares As Makers of Books in Gothic Cologne.” A newly-emerged fragment from an otherwise lost deluxe choir book serves as the point […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Explore the physical materials, production process, ownership, and readership of medieval manuscripts from 800-1500 in Western Europe in this online presentation. Participants will learn about parchment-making, medieval ink and pigment ingredients, methods for illumination and decoration, and the culture of scriptoria with a […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club In 2019, medieval manuscript fragments containing an Arthurian text surfaced unexpectedly at England’s Bristol Central Library and made headlines. Seven folios of a 13th-century copy of the “Suite Vulgate du Merlin” were discovered inside the binding of a four-volume copy of the works of the […]