Greek Manuscripts in Renaissance Venice (May 18, 2023)

The line-up for the Book and Print Initiative (BPI), 

School of Advanced Study, 

University of London, 

for Term 3 2022/23. 

Book and Print Initiative, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Term 3, 2022/34

"The Book and Print Initiative (BPI), School of Advanced Study, University of London, for Term 3 2022/23. BPI offers informal discussions about all aspects of print and book research, highlighting projects at the School of Advanced Study and Senate House collections. All lunchtime talks are free and take place Thursdays, 1-2pm (UK), on Zoom. Please RSVP at bit.ly/BookAndPrint.

Book and Print Initiative, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Term 3, 2022/34

18 May 2023

Dr Dimitrios Skrekas, Research Assistant at the AHRC-funded project “Greek manuscripts in Renaissance Venice: the library of Guillaume Pellicier and its contribution to Europe’s intellectual heritage”, SAS, the Warburg Institute.

Holkham Hall Greek MSS and their online catalogue: challenges and desiderata

My presentation draws on the results of the online cataloguing of the Holkham Hall Greek manuscripts. Almost 90 of the 117 codices come from the island of Crete. Study of this Cretan collection sheds light on the intellectual networks linking Venice and Crete in the years immediately before Crete’s fall to the Ottoman Turks (1669). Taking as a starting-point annotations found in the manuscripts, one can explore networks primarily as witnesses to intellectual currents in Venetian Crete. Equally important are the owners who have been traced, witnessing to the manuscripts’ circulation in Crete, Venice and elsewhere.

Sign up: https://www.sas.ac.uk/events/holkham-hall-greek-mss-and-their-online-catalogue-challenges-and-desiderata

POC:  SAS Libraries | School of Advanced Study

 Dr Elizabeth Savage FSA FRHistS Senior Lecturer in Book History and Communications

PI, British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant: Fladerpapier: Art, Craft, and the Earliest Mass-Produced Wallpaper in the West

Co-Director, Book and Print Initiative Moderator, Blocks Plates Stones listerv

School of Advanced Study, University of London

Senate House, Malet Street

London WC1E 7HU

20% off with the code AFL01 until 30 June 2023: Elizabeth Savage/Linda Stiber Morenus, ‘Pre-Industrial Printing Inks, c.1450–1850’, in Conservation of Books, ed. Abigail Bainbridge, Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology