RSA 2016
RSA
Jason Scott-Warren
Josuah Sylvester, book with spectacles Robert Nicolson -- about 20 books with his annotations
dial of dayes -- creating a book in it
harriet phillips
-- john selden -- collecting broadsides, later absorbed into pepys collection
first dedicated collections of broadsides begin being compiled in 1620s
juliet fleming
gleaning --scraping away what belongs to others in early period
heidegger -- gleaning, lesen, relatedsting as to lego, legere -- to read; harvesting as gathering, collecting
reading as opening up different collecting practices
Victoria Burke
women extracting from Herbert, Quarles, More
Mary Weber -- extracted from Quarles, Herbert, More
Sarah Cowper
Paul Dyck
commonplace book of John Gibson (BL Add MS 37719)2
herbert's "affliction" -- problem of a repeated title; are they repeated title, or repeated poems?
paper panel
tim barrett:
"chancery papermaking" on youtube
reduction of gelatin over time; but still being used after 1500
peachey, "book block beating": http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb7355720
archaeology of medieval bookbinding
sizing happening at binders, not by papermakers
checking whether ink is above or below gelatin content -- indicates whether sizing happened at the binders
Josh Calhoun:
fiction that we move from animal substrate (parchments to plant substrate (paper) in shift to print
unsized books less likely to survive and less likely to have manuscript annotations
"biotic interactions"
we presuppose presence of pen and paper make possible annotating -- but paper and paper sizing is more important;
pen trials may more accurately be called "paper trials"
sinking, spongey paper
can't do a history of reading through annotations without
Peter Stallybrass:
erasable notebooks; portability, pockability -- use of stylus or graphite rather than ink
myths of book history:
- paper was expensive in the Renaissance -- single shee to f writing paper about .15d from 1570s to 1640s; 4d for a quire; more expensive in england than france or low countries
- paper was wasted on a massive scale -- not everything is covered in notes -- letters written on large bifolium, lots of blank space
- binding -- shipped in sheets, but regional booksellers are typically bound up two or three copies in advance of any sale, and bound up more of these copies were sold -- custom binding is not usual but unusual
people buying parchment and string at the same time, for filing
erasable paper notebooks bound in edition binding -- their "makers" were usually binders
Robert Triplet, Writing Tables (1604)
Jan Snoeck portrait by Jan Gossaert
are entire genres of books lost because they were printed on unsized paper and didn't survive?
"localized sizing" -- using pounce to make unsized paper writable -- book owner treating book in certain places
ann blair
mdz -- digital library
printing for preservation -- fear of loss of ancient sources
printing as working tool
foldout table with lords prayer in 22 languages
zb zurich -- thesaurus practicae medicinae -- cutting together pieces from mss to creates printers copy
blue crow -- gessner thanks fabricius
"cold call" dedications
wrote more dedications than books
grafton, matthew parker -- http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26222