This seminar will focus on the recently-established ‘Print Cultures Collection’, which aims to make available exemplars of different book cultures from around the world and through history, within the limits set by our budget and what is ethical. The primary purpose is to give researchers and students the opportunity to encounter physically and first-hand some of the different material forms in which texts have circulated and do circulate. The collection includes a variety of scripts, papers, inks and technologies so far, ranging from hieroglyphic to Sanskrit and from palm leaves to vellum.
- Sydney Shep
Dr Sydney J Shep, Senior Lecturer in Print & Book Culture, The Printer :: Wai-te-ata Press
‘Hearts and Flowers’
“Victorian printers took advantage of new technologies and advertising opportunities to mass market declarations of love, birthday wishes, and seasonal greetings. Join me in fossicking through an eclectic collection of mid-nineteenth century cards recently acquired from the library of Trevor Bayliss.”
Professor Paul Morris, Religious Studies
‘People of the Book’
Paul Morris
“Although Jews were known by others as People of the Book, their tradition is almost exclusively commentarial, so they read books only through other books”.
Duncan Campbell
Duncan M. Campbell, Senior Lecturer in Chinese
‘Authentic Replicas’: Continuing Traditions of Chinese Book Production
“The JCBR’s Print Exemplar Collection includes reproductions of books that survived the fire that destroyed the most famous Chinese private library, Qian Qianyi’s (1582-1664) Tower of the Crimson Clouds. Duncan Campbell will discuss aspects of East Asian traditions of book production with specific reference to a number of these books.”