Looking at 15th-Century Printing Here and Now, but in Terms of There and Then: a hands-on workshop with Eric White, Scheide Librarian and Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at Princeton University. Participants will examine a selection of Harvard’s incunabula, with particular focus on the evidence of original ownership and use, such as inscriptions, hand-decoration, annotations, bindings, and other features, with an eye toward the histories of people who made and used them. Sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Houghton... Read more about Houghton-Medieval Studies Workshop in Early Book History
Theodore Beers (Freie Universität Berlin), From Arabic to Persian and Halfway Back Again: Naṣr Allāh Munshī’s Kalīla and Dimna. Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.