2014 Seminar on “Manuscripts & Their Photographs”
December 12, 2014 in Events, Manuscript Studies, Photographic Exhibition
Close Up & Up Close
On Tuesday, 9 December 2014, we held a seminar at the Index of Christian Art of Princeton University. With examples on hand, Giles Constable and Mildred Budny offered reflections on the processes involved in
1) assembling over decades an ‘accumulation’ — not exactly a deliberate ‘collection’ — of medieval manuscripts (or fragments thereof), documents, and early printed materials, and
2) photographing them over several years, in stages and under varied conditions, for the record and for research, sometimes along with conservation work (where called for in certain cases).