medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Subject: Portraits In Piety: Women Saints and Women Religious --
Georgetown
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:49:25 -0400
From: John Buchtel <[log in to unmask]>
Dear Colleagues,
I'd like to extend the invitation to this Oct. 4 event. The reception
will include an open house of an exhibition drawn from the John Thatcher
Collection of Lives of Women Saints and Women Religious. It is a
remarkable collection, containing more than 1,000 volumes of books about
women printed between 1521 and the mid-20th century. Remarkably, the
books are almost exclusively in vernacular languages (primarily Spanish,
Portuguese, Italian, and French), and many of them are very scarce. In
many cases, even with the 19th-century volumes, the Thatcher copy may
very well be the only copy in North America, if not the only extant
copy. These are clearly books that were used, and by a non-scholarly
readership, and that were seldom collected by major libraries. Items in
the exhibition, curated by Dr. Barbara Mujica, include the extremely
rare first edition of the Works of Teresa of Avila (1588), a magnificent
illustrated 1752 large-paper copy of Teresa's Works with extensive
scholarly marginalia, the dedication copy of a book dedicated to the
Electress Adelaide, and books printed in Peru (with a remarkable
typographic shaped emblematic cross printed in blue and red) and Mexico.
On display are a wide array of frontispieces depicting women over a span
of 400 years, some idealized, some surely real, running the gamut from
fine (as well as 'cheap print') copperplate engravings and woodcuts, to
lithographs and photos. These include some terrific images of
women-and-books. Many of the books themselves are in wonderful,
untampered-with original condition: the collection has as much value for
the study of the history of the book as it does for the history of
women’s devotion. The collection was acquired with the generous support
of the B. H. Breslauer Foundation. The exhibition will be on display
Monday-Friday, 9:00-5:30, until Oct. 22, in the Gunlocke Reading Room,
5th floor, Lauinger Library, Georgetown University.
Hope to see you there!
-John
RSVP for the Oct. 4 event at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Q7MQC3S
Read more about the exhibition at:
http://www.library.georgetown.edu/exhibition/portraits-piety-women-saints-and-women-religious-john-thatcher-collection
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