On Tuesday 4 June 2013, Cambridge University Library will be holding its 9th masterclass as part of the Incunabula Project.

The masterclass, entitled “Hand Illumination on Venetian Incunabula in Cambridge University Library”, will be led by Lilian Armstrong, Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Art at Wellesley College, Emerita, and a leading authority in the History of Italian Illumination. Her research concentrates in particular on book decoration in Venice in the second half of the 15th century, following the invention of printing with movable type.

With the help of treasures from the incunabula collection in the University Library, Professor Armostrong will illustrate the development of Venetian book ornamentation and its transition from hand painted decoration to woodcut illustration in the late 15th and early 16th century.

The seminar will be held in the Keynes Room at the Library. It will start at 2.30pm and will last approximately 90 minutes, allowing time for questions and discussion. Attendance will be limited in order to allow all attendees a chance to see the books under discussion up close, and to participate in the discussion.

To book your place, please email <incunabula@lib.cam.ac.uk> For more information, please visit <https://inc.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/> <http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/rarebooks/incunabula_project.html>

Floreat Bibliomania – Great Collectors and their Grand Designs

A centenary conference in memory of A.N.L. (Tim) Munby, 1913-1974

King’s College, Cambridge, 28-29 June 2013

Tim Munby pioneered the historical study of British book collecting and the use of sale catalogues within bibliographical research. He was Fellow and Librarian of King’s College, Cambridge, from 1947 to 1974, Lyell Reader in Bibliography at Oxford 1962-63, a Founding Trustee of the British Library, President of the Bibliographical Society and co-founder of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society.

King’s College, Cambridge will hold a conference on 28-29 June 2013 to mark the centenary of Munby’s birth. The event will include papers by distinguished speakers, several exhibits, a private tour of the Founder’s Library at the Fitzwilliam Museum and a celebratory dinner.

For details and a booking form, please visit www.kingsmembers.org/munby2013

CMT GRAND DAY OUT 2013

The AHRC-funded exhibition ‘The Brownlows in Italy: Books and Continental Travel’, curated by Abigail Brundin and Dunstan Roberts as part of the CMT National Trust Libraries project, runs at Belton House in Lincolnshire until 3 November 2013.

So that CMT members can enjoy a private view of the house and the exhibition, we are organizing a day-trip to Belton on *Monday 10 June*. Minibuses will leave from Chesterton Road at 8.30, returning to Cambridge by 5.

The visit is free, but pre-booking is required and places are limited. Please drop a line to Jason Scott-Warren (jes1003) and Abigail Brundin (asb17@cam.ac.uk) if you would like to come.

For more information about the house and the project, see > http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/belton-house/ and http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/cmt/?p=2925. A poster for the exhibition can be downloaded here.

The Sandars Reader for 2013 is Professor Jim Secord who will lecture on ‘Visions of science: books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian age’

Professor Secord is giving the lectures on Monday 25 February, Tuesday 26 February and Wednesday 27 February, at 5.00 pm in the Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ’s College.

Monday 25 February: ‘Fantastic voyages: Humphry Davy’s “Consolations in travel”‘

Tuesday 26 February: ‘The conduct of gentlemen: John Herschel’s “Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy”‘

Wednesday 27 February: ‘Nature for the people: George Combe’s “Constitution of man”‘

The final lecture on Wednesday 27 February will be followed by a reception in the Old Library at Christ’s from 6.00 pm to 7.00 pm. A small selection of books related to the lecture series will also be on display.

Click here for further information

Networking Australasia, Researching Novel-Worlds in the Cyberage

Thursday, 14 February 2013
16:00 – 18:00
Location: S3

Please note that this event has been postponed.

Vlad Strukov (University of Leeds), ‘Resistance and New Media’
Tuesday, 5 February at 5:30pm
Umney Theatre, Robinson College
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/people/20058/russian_and_slavonic_studies/person/944/vlad_strukov

Ann Komaromi (University of Toronto), ‘Resistance and Textuality’
Thursday, 14 February at 5:30pm
Umney Theatre, Robinson College
http://www.utoronto.ca/slavic/faculty/Komaromi.shtml

The lectures are part of a year-long lecture series on Resistance cosponsored by the Department for Slavonic Studies and the Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies. The series is exploring the theme of Resistance from a variety of disciplinary angles (Nationalism, Gender, Memory, Rights, etc.), tracing continuities and changes from the Soviet period to the present day. As it is a public lecture series, the lectures are designed to be accessible to people with a broad range of interests and expertise. Please click here for more information: http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/slavonic/Research/Current%20research%20events/PLS-Resistance%202012.html

On Friday 25 January, Cambridge University Library will be holding its 7th masterclass as part of the Incunabula Project.

The masterclass, entitled “Discovering Provenance in Book History”, will be led by David Pearson, Director of Culture, Heritage & Libraries at the City of London Corporation. David has published and lectured extensively in this area of book history and his books include Provenance Research in Book History (1994) and Books as History (2008); he also teaches a course on Provenance at the University of Virginia Rare Book School.

There is a growing recognition of the value of looking at provenance evidence in early books — the lessons about the social impact of books which can be learnt by looking at the ways they have been owned, marked, read, annotated, mutilated or ignored.  This workshop will explore these themes alongside some practical guidance on identifying the various kinds of evidence that can be found, with the help of examples from the early collections of Cambridge University Library, and the opportunity for hands-on exploration and discussion.

The seminar will be held in the Morison Room at the Library. It will start at 2.30pm and will last approximately 90 minutes, allowing time for questions and discussion. Attendance will be limited in order to allow all attendees a chance to see the books under discussion up close, and to participate in the discussion.

To book your place, please email <incunabula@lib.cam.ac.uk>.

Please come for tea & mince pies

& a spin of the new book-wheel

on Tuesday 18 December

between 3.30 and 5 pm

 
G6, Walnut Tree Court, Queens’ College

(Andrew Zurcher’s rooms)

Wednesday 28 November 2012

Chris Hilliard (University of Sydney), ‘What do the masses read? Popular literacy and social investigation in Britain, 1850s-1930s’.

The Seminar meets at 5 pm in the Senior Parlour, Gonville Court, Gonville and Caius College.

Hosted by the Centre for Material Texts, sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK)

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Friday 1st February 2013

This one-day event will take as its starting point the recent opening to wider research of a number of significant great house private libraries in the United Kingdom, thanks to the on-going cataloguing work being undertaken by the National Trust. Papers and discussion will treat themes including the migration of books and ideas in and out of libraries; communities of the library (how ‘private’ was a private library?); libraries as repositories of cultural history.

Attendance is free, but registration is required. Please contact Dunstan Roberts (dcdr2@cam.ac.uk) or Abigail Brundin (asb17@cam.ac.uk) for more information.