Lecture on material history of the book

"Of literal and literary corpora: the anatomy of the texts"
Morgan Library and Museum
225 Madison Avenue
New York
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
6 pm

A lecture by Professor Stephen J. Milner

This lecture will examine how combining the study of the material
history of the book and textual culture with recent scientific
advances in bioarchaeology can alter our understanding of what
constitutes a literary corpus, and how it can be read through the
very materials upon which it has been inscribed.  In foregrounding
the importance of the substrates upon which texts are written and
printed as themselves carriers of meaning, the aim is to emphasize
the centrality of the text object to the future of the academic book
in the digital age.  The lecture will focus on data recently
collected from books printed on parchment from the advent of
printing until 1600, with particular attention to the Venetian
printing house of Aldus Manutius.

Stephen J. Milner is Serena Professor of Italian, University of
Manchester, and a graduate in Combined Historical Studies from the
Warburg Institute.  His research focuses on medieval and Renaissance
cultural history and the rich collections of manuscript and printed
book material in the John Rylands Library, Manchester.

This event is jointly sponsored by the Morgan Library and Museum and
the Andrew W. Mellon Library and Archive Conservation Education
Program, Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York
University.

Limited seating, please RSVP to mfredericks<-at->themorgan<.>org to reserve
a place

Maria Fredericks
Drue Heinz Book Conservator
Thaw Conservation Center
The Morgan Library and Museum
225 Madison Avenue
New York NY 10016-3403
212-590-0379
Fax: 212-768-5673


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