Event
“Traces of University Teaching in Renaissance Books: Examples and Problems”
A talk with David Lines (University of Warwick)
Both teachers and students have left remarkable traces of university lectures in surviving manuscripts and printed books. Professors often wrote out their lectures by hand. Their students kept a record of the lectures, either in manuscript notebooks or in the margins of printed books that were used as the basis for lectures (e.g., works by Virgil, Aristotle, or Galen). These printed books were sometimes prepared and published by university professors, who had their students buy them. Manuscripts and printed works therefore had a complex relationship. Drawing on materials in the Schoenberg Library and elsewhere, this lecture will explore several of the dimensions and problems of this relationship in Renaissance Europe and in Italy in particular.
This event is cosponsored by the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies and the Center for Italian Studies Fellow’s Lecture in Italian Manuscript Studies.