BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Houghton-Medieval Studies Lecture in Early Book History PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_1799836_0 SUMMARY:Houghton-Medieval Studies Lecture in Early Book History DESCRIPTION:

Bettina Wagner (Staatsbibliothek Bamberg), The Nuremberg Humanist Hartmann Schedel and his Books: A Doctor, Chronicler, and Collector at the Transition from Manuscript to Print. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and Houghton Library.

Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514) is best known today as the compiler of the Nuremberg Chronicle, published in 1493 as a joint venture of the city’s elite. The book would not have been possible without the enormous library which the city doctor had amassed since his student days in Leipzig and Padua. Schedel’s collection, which still survives in large parts in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, is the largest private library in Germany from the late Middle Ages. Hundreds of items, including his autograph library catalogue, give an insight into his interests at the time of transition from manuscript to print.

LOCATION:The Edison & Newman Room, Houghton Library STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20240408T213000Z DTEND:20240408T230000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR