October 14-16, 2021
Online via Zoom
The Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library is pleased to announce that registration is available for this hybrid symposium, co-organized with the Art History Department at Emory University.
This hybrid symposium will explore alterations to the physical structure of books in the early modern period—through insertion or interpolation, subtraction or deletion, adjustments in the ordering of folios or quires, amendments of image or text. Although our primary interest is in printed books and print series bound like books, we shall also consider manuscripts since meaningful alterations made to incunabula and early printed books often followed the patterns such changes took in codices. Throughout Customized Books the emphasis will fall on the hermeneutic functions of the modifications made by makers and users to the structure of their manuscripts and books.
Registration is available only for virtual participation in this conference; all sessions will be available via Zoom. See below for a full schedule of speakers.
To register, complete the online registration form here: https://bit.ly/3leTRzE
Thursday, October 14
Opening Remarks: 9:30 – 9:45
Walter Melion, Emory University
Session 1: 10:00 – 11:30
Andrea van Leerdam, Utrecht University
“A Medical Anthology Customized ‘for the Consolation of the Sick’ in a Brussels Convent”
Anna Dlablacova, Universiteit Leiden
“Shifting Meaning, Changing Practice: Textual Additions in Religious Incunabula in the Low Countries”
Geert Warnar, Universiteit Leiden
“Customizing the Multiple Options of 15th-century Religious Life: How and Why A Miscellany Was Personalized”
Session 2: 12:30 – 2:00
Mara Wade, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“More Than the Sum of its Parts: The Hybrid Emblem Book”
Jason Rosenholz-Witt, Emory University
“Venice as a Musical Commodity in Early Modern Germany: A Frontispiece Collage, c. 1638”
Walter Melion, Emory University
“In Defense of the Faith: Interpolated Prints as Multifunctional Glosses in a Customized Copy of Franciscus Costerus’s Dutch New Testament (1614)”
Friday, October 15
Session 3: 10:00 – 11:30
Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba, Uniwersytet Jagielloński
“How Early Modern Books Crossed Boundaries: Books of Fortune-telling in Central Europe”
Karl Enenkel, Universität Münster
“Unknown Emblematic Poems by a German Owner of a copy of Vaenius’s Emblemata Horatiana“
Simon McKeown, Marlborough College
“Vaenius in Ireland: Eighteenth-Century Adaptations of the Emblemata Horatiana“
Session 4: 12:30 – 2:00
Brent Purkaple, University of Oklahoma
“Anamorphic Perspectives: A Comparison of the Printed Works of Jean François Niceron”
Paul Gehl, Newberry Library
“Tommaso Schifaldo in Several Contexts: A Humanist Miscellany from Sicily”
Jakub Koguciuk, Yale University
“What is Pastoral About a Customized Book? The 1495 Aldine Theocritus Illuminated by Albrecht Dürer for Willibald Pirckheimer”
Session 5: 2:30 – 4:00
Julia Lillie, Bard Graduate Center
“Outside the Atlas: Customized Books with Printed Maps in Early Modern Germany”
Anne Koenig, Newberry Library
“Customized Health: Sigmund Örtel’s Life-Preserving Book, c. 1467”
Stephanie Leitch, Florida State University
“A Catalogue of Printed Knowledge: Repurposed Prints in an Encyclopedic Hausbuch, c. 1524”
Saturday, October 16
Session 6, 10:00 – 11:00
Britt Boler Hunter, Florida State University
“The Wellcome Apocalypse Manuscript and its Printed Precedents”
Kelin Michael, Emory University
“Reforming Hrabanus: Early Modern Iterations of In honorem sanctae crucis“
Session 7, 11:30 – 1:00
Tom Cummins, Harvard University
“Custom Made by Antonio Ricardo: Peru’s First Printer and His Illustrations”
Pedro Germano Leal, John Carter Brown Library
“‘By the Genius of the Indians’: The Creative Process behind Nieremberg’s De la Diferencia in Guarani (Loreto, 1705)”
Shaun Midanik, University of Toronto
“Customizing Consumption: the Carracci’s Scuola Perfetta and the Composite Book of Prints”
Session 8, 2:00 – 3:00
Bret Rothstein, Indiana University
“What’s in a Book? Customization, Transformation, Categorization, and the Value of a Burgundian Manuscript, ca. 1400”
Christopher Fletcher, Newberry Library
“The Customizing Mindset in the Fifteenth Century: The Case of Newberry Inc. 1699”