About this Event
Are you curious about collections the Library has recently added? Join Elizabeth Frengel and the Kim-Park Program for the Study of the Book for an in-person, hands-on introduction to seven new Special Collections acquisitions – books, manuscripts, and ephemeral works that lend themselves to in-depth study and present opportunities for new research.
This session will include an up-close look at a leaf from the Polychronicon, printed in 1482 by William Caxton, the first English printer to print in the vernacular. Other intros will include a curiously illuminated apothecary’s manuscript, copied in France in 1545; a 13th-century “Paris Bible,” copied in Spain; the first Russian edition of Homer’s Iliad, printed in St. Petersburg in 1776, and a gauze textile printed with instructions for treating wounds on the battlefield -- something for almost everyone’s interests!
This event is open to all with registration and will be held in The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center in Regenstein Library.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Regenstein Library, 1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, United States
USD 0.00
