On March 12, curator Dot Porter will bring out LJS 482, a 13th century copy of commentaries on Aristotle's De generatione et corruptione and Meteorologica, by the Dominican friar Albertus Magnus.
Siân Echard explores how facsimilists of medieval illuminated manuscripts from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries thought and talked about color. Technology, imagination, and cultural expectation come together as producers and consumers of facsimiles wrestle with what a “faithful” facsimile really is.
The Manuscript Studies Interest Group (MSIG) is a regular meeting for people who want to get up close and personal with a variety of handwritten objects.
On March 19, curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 468, arithmetical tables framed by ornamental borders, followed by a brief introduction and statements of problems and their solutions. Written in Lombardy around 1578.
In this series of three lectures, Joan Judge explores the relationship between physical books and historical common knowers in early twentieth century China.
March 23 - 26, 2026
Hybrid event: Class of 78 Orrery Pavilion, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, 6th Floor; and virtual (via Zoom)
On March 24, Emily Brooks, Associate Director of Digital Research in the Humanities in the Price Lab for Digital Humanities, will lead a workshop where we will make pop-up mirror books.
On March 26, curator Dot Porter will bring out LJS 462, a didactic poem in 284 lines of hexameter concerning integers (including, for the first time in Latin, zero) and their operations, followed by an anonymous treatise in verse on the calendar.
Sean Quimby will interview photographer and cinematographer Phil Parmet about his experience documenting life in Haiti after the fall of Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier in 1986.
