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Incunabula: people, places, products and their relationships
National Library of Scotland, 24 October 2018
Convenors: Anette Hagan and Robert Betteridge
This one-day seminar marks the completion of the National Library of Scotland incunabula cataloguing project. It aims to explore the relationships between 15th-century printed
books and their places of production, authors, printers and aspects of material culture found in illumination, rubrication and bindings. It brings together academics and librarians working with incunabula.
10.00-10.10
Welcome
10.10-11.30 Session 1: Centres of Book Production
Laura Cooijmans-Keizer (Edinburgh University Library)
Early printing along the IJssel: the production of incunabula in Deventer, Low Countries
Dr Elma Brenner (Wellcome Collection)
Thomas Le Forestier and early medical printing in Rouen
Ester Camilla Peric (University of Udine)
An agreement for the sale of incunabula (Padua, 1480)
11.30-11.45 Break
11.45-13.00 Session 2: Collecting in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Robert Betteridge (National Library of Scotland)
The National Library of Scotland's acquisitions of incunabula during World War II
Dr Sian Prosser (Royal Astronomical Society)
An astronomer's incunabula: the earliest books in the Grove-Hills collection of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rhiannon Lawrence-Francis (Leeds University Library)
Marginalia and myth in Lord Brotherton's incunabula
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Session 3: Lightning Talks
Katherine Krick-Pridgeon (Christ’s College Library)
Incunabulum or not incunabulum? A Christ’s College Library detective story
Jane Pirie (Aberdeen University Library)
'Initial' thoughts on an incunabulum at Aberdeen
Andrea Vilcsek (National Library of Hungary)
Bookbindings from the incunabula collection of the Hungarian National Széchényi Library
Dr Sheila Hingley (Durham University Library)
Bindings as provenance: where did the Durham monks acquire their books?
15.00-15.15 Break
15.15-16.35 Session 4: Assembly, Collecting, Reception 1496-1700
Dr Sarah Cusk (Lincoln College Library)
Incunabula from Edmund Audley's 1518 gift to Lincoln College: reconstructing a private library and its place in a 16th-century Oxford college collection
Dr Irčne Fabry-Tehranchi (Cambridge University Library)
The lovers' death in Antoine Vérard's 1496 illuminated French prose
Tristan
Elizabeth Henderson (St Andrews University Library)
The place of incunabula in 17th-century Scottish libraries
16.35-17.00 Finish
National Library of Scotland, Scottish Charity, No: SC011086
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