Tuesday 13 June 2017
The Fitzwilliam Museum
As we live through a communications revolution in the move from print to digital, this behind-the-scenes study morning will be exploring an equally fundamental change; the coming of print to Europe in the second half of the fifteenth century.
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Led by Dr Suzanne Reynolds and Edward Cheese of the Department of Manuscripts and Printed Books, the morning will draw on recent research on and conservation of the incunabula (books printed in Europe before 1501) in the Museum’s collection. In the Founder’s Library, Suzanne will display examples of early printing and discuss how the first printers drew on manuscript culture and illumination. Edward will concentrate on the impact which this, the first form of mass production, had on bookbinders. Participants will be able to explore the technical developments in making book structures together with the implications for conservation.
Cost includes tea and cake
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10:15 - 12:30
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