A Look at the Book: Text and Reading Culture from Manuscripts to Print to E-Readers

This event at Kenyon will use material digitized as part of the NGL grant.

The students of Used Books: Medieval Manuscripts (aka ARHS 374) invite you to an exhibition and reception in the Lee L. Meier / Quentin J. Draudt Curatorial Classroom in Gund Gallery on Thursday, December 8 from 5:00-6:00pm.

With funding initially received from a Mellon Next Generation Libraries grant, Professor Sarah Blick and Special Collections Librarian Ethan A. Henderson created this class to give students the opportunity to study and work with original and digitized leaves of manuscripts dating from the 11th to the 21st century. Come see the exhibit and ask these student curators about dirty books, palimpsests, glossing, chained books, illuminations, punctus flexus, manicules, and many other fascinating aspects of manuscript studies.

The Classroom/Exhibit will also be open on Thursday from 3-8pm and Friday from 1-7pm.