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Lecture: Kelly Minot Mccay: The Making of Shorthand Manuals in Early Modern England, 1588–1700
Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, LondonThis paper explores the people and production behind the swell of shorthand manuals in seventeenth-century England, demonstrating what a detailed bibliography of the printed genre has revealed about an overlooked yet widely used manuscript technology. Book your place here >>
Virtual Winter Visit to the library at St Catherine’s Monastery, Mt Sinai
The Bibliographical Society travels virtually to visit the library at St Catherine’s Monastery, Mt Sinai, on Thursday, 27 February, at 17.00 GMT. The virtual visit will take place on Zoom and will compromise a pre-recorded introduction to the library and its collections, followed by live discussion and Q&A. Our host [...]
Lecture: Claire Bolton: Exploring a Remarkable Collection of Bindings in the Memmingen Stadtarchiv
Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, LondonThe Memmingen Stadtarchiv contains over 170 (perhaps 200) fifteenth-century bindings from three (perhaps four) Memmingen workshops. This talk discusses the similarities and differences between the finishing and forwarding methods between them, and over time. Book your place here >>