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Week 1 (21 - 25 September): European Bookbinding 1450-1830
Week 2a (28 – 30 September): Linked Data for bookbinding description
Week 2b (30 September – 2 October): Eastern Mediterranean Bookbinding Structures
In addition to seeing books from the Biblioteca Alessandrina, the first week will include visits to some of the most famous libraries in the city, including the Casanatense, the Vallicelliana, the Angelica, the Archivio di Stato and the Venerable English College.
Full details are available at: www.ligatus.org.uk/summerschool/
Our friends at the Ligatus Summer School would like us to share that this year's Summer School is taking place in Rome, from 21 September to 2 October, hosted by the Biblioteca Alessandrina in La Sapienza University.
For this month’s Council’s Choice, Matthew Payne highlights England’s Immigrants 1330-1550, a database containing the names of over 64,000 people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, the Wars of the Roses and the Reformation.
The presence of drop-down choices within this make it possible to highlight with great ease those who were described as printers, bookbinders, limners, parchmeners, scribes, scriveners, and host of other trades.
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Matthew Payne’s lecture, ‘Who was Elizabeth Northe? John Lettou and London’s first printing press’, is now online:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRmU...
It examines the circumstances surrounding the setting up of London’s first press, and the distribution of works produced by it in London in the 1480s.
Five remarkable collections of documentary heritage from across the United Kingdom have been inscribed onto the UNESCO Memory of the World National Register, recognising their outstanding historical, cultural and social significance: unesco.org.uk/news/five-ou...
While a database of medieval people drawn from original sources is always valuable, the particular interest for book historians is the helpful addition of numerous advanced search fields, that enable you to search by occupation, social status, place of origin etc.
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'The Bodleian Daybook and the Purchase of Second-Hand Books' @tamarajatkin.bsky.social @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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