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Gatherings: The Social, Material and Cultural Networks of Books, 1450-1800

December 15
December 15, 2021
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Thompson Library, Room 150

Join the student-curators of MedRen 5611 for their live exhibition highlighting materials from the OSU Rare Books and Manuscripts Library: “Gatherings: The Social, Material and Cultural Networks of Books, 1450-1800.” The exhibition is open to the public and will occur Wednesday, December 15th, 12-2PM in Thompson Library, Room 150, 1858 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43210.

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In book making, a “gathering” is several leaves of paper bound into a single unit—the essential building block of the codex as an object. The varying uses of books in the world reflect this material aspect of their creation: books are fundamentally social objects that create novel methods and opportunities for gathering. This exhibition examines material features of books from the hand-press period (1450–1800) in the OSU Rare Books and Manuscripts Library for evidence of how they bring together people and ideas across boundaries of space, time, identity and ideology.

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