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Digest: July & August – 2024
Manuscript Digest: July – August 2024 – This complimentary e-digest, now published bi-monthly, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost and found, rare books and ephemera, document conservation, and more news in this digest. […]
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Chemistry of Making Paper
By NYC Wanderer (Kevin Eng) - originally posted to Flickr as Gutenberg Bible, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9914015 For the collector of documents, manuscripts, letters, we know that paper making is an ancient practice. Before the industrialization of the paper production the most common fiber source was recycled fibers [...]
MM On-Demand: History in Your Hands
History in Your Hands: A Passion for Collecting Rembrandt Peale Letter- Embury Collection It’s a letter written by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon Bonaparte, or perhaps Mary Cassatt. You’ve read about them or seen their art, but now you read their words written in their hand. You are [...]
MM On-Demand: Contemporary Issues and Opportunities in Rare Book & Manuscript Collecting
It is a big world out there! There are many places to purchase manuscripts and books. Brick and mortar locations, online, via auctions, independent dealers, virtual and live shows. Options are almost endless. Each option is continually changing. What to do… where to go…. Spencer Stuart and Brian Kathenes will [...]
2023 Shapiro Book Prize: “Happy Dreams of Liberty”
2023 Shapiro Book Prize Lecture March 29, 2023 - 7:30 PM (Pacific Time) - Live via Zoom R. Isabela Morales, winner of the 2023 Shapiro Book Prize, talks about her book “Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom,” and shares the story of the 19th-century Townsend [...]
2023 Maass Grant Recipient Announced
2023 Maass Research Grant Recipient Announced Maxwell Pingeon - 2023 Maass Research Grant Recipient Maxwell Pingeon, a PhD student in the department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia was named the 2023 Maass research grant recipient according to Dr. Elizabeth Dow, chairman of the Scholarship Committee [...]
Original “Wikipedia” : Siku Quanshu Project
The Original Wikipedia: 18th Century Chinese Emperor Qianlong’s Siku Quanshu THIS WEBINAR IS CANCELED - IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED AT A LATER DATE. Qianlong - Emperor Manuscript Monday - Live, Free Webinar -Monday, Apr 3, 2023 8:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) “The Original Wikipedia: 18th Century Chinese [...]
Mary, Queen of Scots letters decoded
Mary, Queen of Scots In another exciting breakthrough, a team of code breakers have cracked secret coded messages in letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots. Afraid of her cousin's popularity, Queen Elizabeth I held Mary in prison for 19 years. Experts say this is the most significant discovery about [...]
