If you're tempted by this hands-on seminar next Monday, please email
[email protected]. Space is tight in the room, and they
might want to rearrange the tables/chairs if they know there will be
even more people than usual.
I cherish a facsimile Renaissance letterfold that was a souvenir from
a Folger Library exhibit a few years ago.
Karen
(wearing both my Renaissance history and my origami paper hats)
Dear friends and colleagues,
Please join us this Monday, September 17, for the next meeting of
the weekly Workshop in the History of Material Texts. We will meet,
as usual, at 5:15pm in the Martin and Margy Meyerson Conference
Room, which is located on the second floor of Van Pelt Library,
diagonally across from the elevators.
This week, we welcome Jana Dambrogio and Heather Wolfe, who will be
speaking about "Early Modern Letter Locking Techniques in Theory and
Practice: Silk Floss, Seals and Folds". They write:
"The workshop will begin with a brief discussion of the development
of a letter-locking fad (with silk floss) that began with Elizabeth
I, and an overview of other contemporary methods of folding and
sealing letters. We will then practice folding letters as a group,
to better enable us to interpret the various fold marks on flattened
early modern letters, and what information those folds might convey
about a letter's intentions and afterlife."
Heather Wolfe is Curator of Manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare
Library and teaches paleography for the Folger Institute, Rare Book
School, and the Mellon Summer Institute in English Paleography. She
has written various essays on early modern manuscript culture and
has most recently edited a collection of essays, The Literary Career
and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680 (2007), and The Trevelyon
Miscellany of 1608: A Facsimile Edition of Folger Shakespeare
Library MS V.b.232 (2007).
Jana Dambrogio works as a rare book and manuscript conservator for
the National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
She earned a BA from the University of Pittsburgh, PA, in 1994, her
MA in Conservation from SUNY Buffalo State College, and her
bookbinding certificate from the Canadian Bookbinders Book Artist
Guild in 2000. She continues her study on 14th-17th c. Italian
archival records she conserved at the Vatican Secret Archives in
2000. Support from a Kittredge Scholarship, 2002, and a Booth Family
Rome Prize, American Academy, 2008, have allowed her to advance her
research. At the National Archives she has also been studying the
physical evidence found in late 18th c. American bindings. She
lectures and teaches workshops internationally on how to look at,
make models of, and develop approaches to conserving archival
binding and letter-locking structures.
Upcoming History of Material Texts Speakers:
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Peter Stallybrass
Annenberg Professor in the Humanities
Simran Thadani
Brizdle-Schoenberg Fellow in the History of Material Texts
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Administrivia:
All are welcome to attend the seminar; please forward this email to
anyone you know who might be interested.
Those who do not hold UPenn ID cards should bring other
government-issued ID in order to enter the library building.
To subscribe to or unsubscribe from the weekly email listserv, visit
<<https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/english-hist-book>https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/english-hist-book>
or contact Simran Thadani at
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]>.
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Simran Thadani
Doctoral Candidate, Department of English
Brizdle-Schoenberg Fellow in the History of Material Texts, 2012-13
University of Pennsylvania
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]>
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Karen Reeds [email protected]
Princeton Public Library Origami Group, usually 2nd Wednesdays of the month
Anyone age 8 to 88+, any skill level, is welcome to join us in
Princeton, New Jersey.
For more information, call 609. 924.9529 ext. 240; email:
[email protected] (Ann Woodrow)
http://princetonlibrary.org/children/BookClubsandGroups.htm
http://www.princetonlibrary.org/blog/2012/05/princeton-rich-treasure
Upcoming meetings: Wed. Sept 12, Oct 10, 2012 6:30-8pm
