How Do Book Bindings Get to Sing?
February 10, 2023 @ 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM EST
Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies 2022-2023 Series
How Do Book Bindings Get to Sing?
Friday, February 10th, 2023
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. (EST), via Zoom
Speaker: Lilla Vekerdy, Head & Curator, Special Collections, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
How Do Book Bindings Get to Sing? will discuss a group of Renaissance and Early Modern books that are bound in fragments of music manuscripts from the Middle Ages. These “singing bindings” are hundreds of years older than the texts they cover. Furthermore, the texts inside are on mathematics, physics, astronomy, and one even about the Devil itself, but absolutely none is on music. Lilla Vekerdy will shed light on how and why these discrepancies happened. The volumes examined are selected from the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives’ Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology.
Zoom link: https://wcupa.zoom.us/j/93439549048?pwd=alVCaE54RWVVeGNUdGQxbjlaQzlKQT09