Workshop on Nag Hammadi Codices

The NY Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers is presenting:

A 2-day Workshop with Julia Miller:
The Nag Hammadi Codices-Single Quire Bindings
at The New York Academy of Medicine in Manhattan
June 18-19, 2010
9:30 am -5:30 pm

We will begin with an in-depth presentation on the history of the
Nag Hammadi codices, their importance to the history of the codex,
and the structural differences found among the eleven surviving
covers. The primary goal of the class is to produce a model of one
of the Nag Hammadi codices, Codex VI, the most intact of the
surviving covers and one of the most complicated in terms of
structure. The cover and attachments will be made with goatskin; the
text block will be made with a suitable paper but workshop
participants will have a small supply of papyrus to add to the
textblock or for cover linings.  Participants will also receive
copies of some pages of the Coptic text of Codex VI to alter and add
to their textblock.

We will also complete a sampler representing the different
attachment styles used on all of the surviving covers. If time
permits, we will also make a samples of the three different
cover-to-text attachment styles observed among the NHC as well as
sketching or photographing the elements of the other covers from
reference materials provided by the instructor for future projects.

Julia Miller is a bench-trained conservator and was senior
conservator at the University of Michigan conservation lab until
1994.  Since then she has been in private practice. She has also
concentrated on research on the early codex and the long history of
the codex. She was Guest curator for two exhibits on the history of
the codex:  Suave Mechanicals: Early to Modern Binding Styles in
2003 and Elegant to Eccentric: Bindings from the Main Room of the
William L. Clements Library in 2007. In 2008, she received a Samuel
H. Kress conservation publication fellowship through FAIC that has
enabled her to write a book on historical bindings: "Books Will
Speak Plain:  A handbook for identifying and describing historical
bindings." The book is in the final stages of preparation and will
be published by The Legacy Press in the fall of 2010.

Workshop Fee:
    $215.00 (GBW members)
    $250 (non-members)
    Materials Fee: $40.00

To register, please contact

    Rachel Lapkin
    718-817-8754
    rlapkin<-at->nybg<.>org

For more information please see <URL:http://www.gbwny.org>

Directions to The New York Academy of Medicine are available at

    <URL:>http://www.nyam.org/about/directions.shtml


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