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SUMMER COURSES: London Rare Books School Programme 2013.

The LRBS will take place for two weeks from 24 to 28 June (Week one) and 1 to 5 July (Week two). Each course on offer will consist of thirteen seminars, amounting in all to twenty hours of teaching time spread between Monday afternoon and Friday afternoon. It is therefore only possible to take one course per week.

There will be timetabled ‘library time’ that will allow students to explore the rich resources of the University’s Senate House Library, one of the UK’s major research libraries. There will also be an evening programme with an opening reception and talk, a book history lecture, and receptions hosted by major London antiquarian booksellers.

LRBS Courses, 24-28 June 2013:
* The Book in the Ancient World
* Children’s Books, 1470-1980
* An Introduction to Bibliography
* Mapping Land and Sea before 1900
* The Medieval Book
* The Printed Book in Europe 1450-2000
* Type and its Uses 1455-1830.

The Book in the Ancient World
Course tutors: Dr Irving Finkel, Dr Matthew Nicholls, Dr Marigold Norbye, Dr. Kathryn E. Piquette and Alan Cole, Curator of the Museum of Writing
The course is an intensive survey of the origins of, and the changes in, textual culture that took place between c. 2500 BC and 400 AD. It will set these changes into their related historical contexts and place considerable emphasis on the material nature of writing and book construction. This will involve extensive use of materials from the Museum of Writing (Curator: Mr Alan Cole) currently housed in the Senate House Library. In addition to handling and using original artefacts, students will have the opportunity to experiment with writing on clay tablets, on papyrus, and on wax tablets using modern reconstructions under the guidance of Alan Cole who will provide practical sessions during some of the seminars (these are asterisked). The course will end by looking at the ways in which the modern book form (the codex) emerged at the end of the period, and how some of the ancient texts studied in the course survived through the post-classical manuscript periods to the age of printing.

The Medieval Book
Course tutor: Professor Michelle P. Brown
Additional Lecturers: Dr Rowan Watson
This course will provide an intensive introduction to manuscript culture during Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The historical contexts for manuscript production will be explored and the landscape populated with some of those who commissioned and made these remarkable works. Techniques of production, terminology and methods of description and cataloguing will be examined and a brief survey of palaeography and codicology will be provided. Styles and principal trends will be studied, with the aid of digital images, slides, facsimiles and primary sources (with valuable opportunities to examine manuscripts at the British Library, the V&A and Senate House Library). The Course Tutor and additional lecturers are all acknowledged experts in their fields and will share their experience and perspectives as scholars and curators.

The Printed Book in Europe, 1450-2000
Course tutor: Professor John Feather
This is an introductory course for which there are no pre-requisites other than those needed for admission to the LRBS. It is suitable for anyone with an interest in the history of books, including historians, literary scholars, librarians, collectors and antiquarian booksellers. No prior knowledge will be assumed, other than through the pre-course reading which will be selected from the Recommended Reading list.

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COURSES: Rarre Book School (RBS), 114 Alderman Library, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400103, Charlottesville, VA 22904. Summer and Fall 2013.

In 2013, Rare Book School will offer courses at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville (June–August), the Lillian Goldman Law Library, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Library, and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University in New Haven (June), the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (July), and at the Smithsonian Institution and Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC (October–November).

The summer 2013 application is now available. To learn how to apply, please see tthe Applications Procedures page.

Program

10–14 June in Charlottesville, VA
* H-30 The Printed Book in the West to 1800 (Martin Antonetti)
* L-95 Born-Digital Materials: Theory & Practice (Matthew Kirschenbaum & Naomi Nelson)
* T-60 The History of 19th- & 20th-Century Typography & Printing (John Kristensen & Katherine McCanless Ruffin)
* H-90 Teaching the History of the Book (Michael F. Suarez, S.J.)
* G-55 Scholarly Editing: Principles & Practice (David Vander Meulen).

17–21 June in Charlottesville, VA
* I-10 History of Printed Book Illustration in the West (Erin C. Blake)
* M-20 Introduction to Western Codicology (Albert Derolez)
* C-60 Examining the Medical Book: History & Connoisseurship (Stephen Greenberg)
* L-65 Digitizing the Historical Record (Bethany Nowviskie & Andrew Stauffer)
* L-70 XML in Action: Creating Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Text (David Seaman).

17–21 June in New Haven, CT
* B-40 Medieval & Early Renaissance Bookbinding Structures (Christopher Clarkson)
* L-60 Introduction to Archives for Special Collections Librarians (Jackie Dooley & Bill Landis)
* M-90 Advanced Seminar: Medieval Manuscript Studies (Barbara A. Shailor)
* C-85 Law Books: History & Connoisseurship (Mike Widener).

8–12 July in Charlottesville, VA
* C-30 Developing Collections: Donors, Libraries & Booksellers (Tom Congalton, Johan Kugelberg & Katherine Reagan)
* B-10 Introduction to the History of Bookbinding (Jan Storm van Leeuwen)
* H-70 The History of the Book in America, c.1700–1830 (James N. Green)
* G-20 Printed Books to 1800: Description & Analysis (David Whitesell)
* M-70 The Handwriting & Culture of Early Modern English Manuscripts (Heather Wolfe).

22–26 July in Charlottesville, VA
* I-20 Book Illustration Processes to 1900 (Terry Belanger)
* M-10 Introduction to Paleography, 800–1500 (Consuelo Dutschke)
* H-40 The Printed Book in the West Since 1800 (Eric Holzenberg)
* L-30 Rare Book Cataloging (Deborah J. Leslie)
* L-25 Reference Sources for Researching Rare Books (Joel Silver)
* B-50 Advanced Seminar in the History of Bookbinding (Jan Storm van Leeuwen)

22–26 July in Philadelphia, PA
* H-25 15th-Century Books in Print & Manuscript (Paul Needham & Will Noel).

29 July–2 August in Charlottesville, VA
* H-10 History of the Book, 200–2000 (John Buchtel & Mark Dimunation)
* I-40 The Illustrated Scientific Book to 1800 (Roger Gaskell)
* C-90 Provenance: Tracing Owners & Collections (David Pearson)
* G-10 Introduction to the Principles of Bibliographical Description (David Whitesell)
* H-50 The American Book in the Industrial Era, 1820–1940 (Michael Winship).

28 October–1 November in Washington, DC
* L-35 Advanced Rare Book Cataloging (Deborah J. Leslie)
* I-95 Hokusai & Book Illustration (Ellis Tinios).

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COURSE: Medieval Codicology and Palaeography, Summer University, Central European University, Medieval Studies Department, Budapest, Hungary, 15-20 July 2013.

The aim of the one-week course is to provide practical training in the basic skills of Latin and Greek palaeography, combined with lectures on selected issues in codicology and diplomatic based on a new approach toward manuscript studies and the latest trends in research. The course includes visits to manuscript holding libraries and archives.

1. The palaeography seminars provide practical training in Latin and Greek palaeography at an intermediate level, focusing on transcribing various scripts across broad chronological and geographic areas and dealing with issues such as recognition of script and dating of hand. Seminars will run in two parallel options: Latin book hand and diplomatic hand and Greek book hand and diplomatic hand.

2. The lectures on codicology and diplomatics given by the faculty complement and contextualize the practice of the intensive transcription seminars.

3. Visits to manuscript holding libraries and archives will facilitate contact with manuscripts in the original.

4. Small group sessions will facilitate students with the opportunity to discuss individual research and specific questions with various faculty members in small groups.

5. A practical palaeography test on the last day will serve as a way to test the knowledge acquired during the course. The test will include the transcription of a Latin or Greek text (photocopied facsimile), recognition of script, the description of the characteristics of the script and approximate dating of hand.

The course is aimed at MA and PhD students and young researchers. Working knowledge of Latin and/or Greek and elementary knowledge of palaeography are required.

Course Director:
Anna Somfai (Senior Research Fellow, Medieval Studies Department, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary).

Course Faculty:
Niels Gaul (Medieval Studies Department, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary), David Juste (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich, Germany), András Németh (Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome, Italy), Inmaculada Perez Martín (Instituto de lenguas y culturas del mediterraneao y oriente proximo, Madrid, Spain) and Katalin Szende (Medieval Studies Department, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary).

Tuition fee: 300/ 270 EUR. Financial aid: full or partial fellowship (covering tuition and accommodation)

Application deadline: 28 February 2013.

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COURSES: Séances de formation à la bibliothèque de l’INHA (25 février et 24 avril 2013).

La bibliothèque de l’INHA propose des formations destinées à aider les chercheurs dans la réalisation de leurs recherches :

Lundi, 25 février 2013 (14h30):
La recherche bibliographique en histoire de l’art médiéval : une aide à la recherche dans les ressources des bibliothèques proposée par des enseignants : du papier à Internet en passant par les bases de données.

Mercredi, 24 avril 2013 (10h30):
La localisation des thèses (thèses papier et thèses en ligne) en histoire de l’art.

Les séances se déroulent dans la salle Chastel, galerie Colbert pendant 2 heures.

Pour vous inscrire, merci d’envoyer votre demande, en précisant votre numéro de téléphone, à l’adresse suivante : info-bibliotheque@inha.fr.

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COURSE: Introduzione alla lettura di documenti antichi, Sala del Consiglio Provinciale, Via Gramsci 4, Pesaro (tel. ++39-0721-33344).

In sette lezioni Anna Falcioni, docente di Storia medievale nella Università di Urbino, si proporrà non solo di illustrare i luoghi e gli strumenti per l’accesso concreto ai documenti, le tecniche per far capire il testo manoscritto in lingua moderna, ma anche di comprendere il legame tra l’attività di chi scriveva nel passato e tutti gli aspetti dell’esistenza allora connessi a tale attività.

Le lezioni possono essere seguite da tutti, anche da coloro che a scuola non hanno avuto l’occasione di studiare la paleografia e la diplomatica: perciò, dopo un accenno alla epigrafia antica, si farà un breve excursus sulla scrittura latina medievale, partendo dalle varie forme di grafica (sec. VI) fino alla scrittura umanistica e cancelleresca (sec. XV), a quella rinascimentale, seicentesca e settecentesca, di cui la Biblioteca Oliveriana offre innumerevoli esempi. Chi vorrà approfondire, in biblioteca non avrà che l’imbarazzo della scelta tra le migliaia di documenti manoscritti presenti.

L’iscrizione è subordinata al versamento di una quota individuale di euro 50 (40 per iscritti alla Associazione Amici della Biblioteca Oliveriana e studenti) a titolo di contributo spese, da versarsi presso gli uffici della Biblioteca Oliveriana o nella sede del corso. Sarà rilasciato a richiesta un attestato di frequenza.

Per maggiori informazioni clicca qui oppure scrivi alla Biblioteca Oliveriana.

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COURSE: Translating the Past: A Workshop on Medieval and Renaissance Sources devoted to Art, History, and Literature, Third Edition of Summer Workshop on Philology, Palaeography and Codicology, Florence, The International Studies Institute at Palazzo Rucellai, June 2013.

In recent years significant changes in university curricula, both in Europe and in the U.S., have made it increasingly difficult for students to receive advanced training in philology, palaeography and codicology. And yet, these subjects are crucial for the study of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance at the graduate and postgraduate level.

Consequently, a number of prestigious universities and institutions have decided to take a first step to fill this serious gap. Starting in 2010, The International Studies Institute at Palazzo Rucellai, the Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, the Society for Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti (The Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies), The Charles Singleton Center for Italian Studies (Johns Hopkins University), The Dutch Institute for Art History in Florence (Istituto Universitario Olandese di Storia dell’Arte), and Georgetown University at Villa Le Balze have joined their efforts to promote Translating the Past: A Workshop on Medieval and Renaissance Sources devoted to Art, History, and Literature. This initiative has proved a remarkable success. The first two editions have been attended by some thirty students coming from the best-known universities and study centers from all over the world.

After a one-year pause, devoted to seeking a considerable number of bursaries to support as many applicants as possible, Translating the Past will be offered again in summer 2013 at The International Studies Institute at Palazzo Rucellai (Florence, Italy). Throughout June 2013, students will participate in a one-month summer workshop in Florence devoted to these disciplines and taught by internationally renowned specialists who are noted for their scholarly contributions and long teaching experience. Students attending the workshop will acquire both a methodological and a practical introduction to the subjects through seminars and hands-on assignments. Furthermore, they will explore the Florentine collections in the famous local libraries and archives, such as the Archivio di Stato, the Biblioteca Nazionale and the Biblioteca Riccardiana.

Classes will be held at The International Studies Institute at Palazzo Rucellai.

For more information see the attached project or email Prof. Stefano Baldassarri.

Application deadline: 31 March 2013.

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