Stern Center Director Earle Havens and Curatorial Fellow J.J. Lopez Haddad will discuss their current endeavor to more fully catalogue and digitize all pre-1600 manuscripts in the Sheridan Libraries' Special Collections, including world-class illuminated books, sacred and secular, as well as humbler scribal fragments, and many points in between.

Together, they will tell the story of how Johns Hopkins’ collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts evolved and developed over time, and share some of their favorite books, including an ancient Jewish text scribally reproduced at a scriptorium in Renaissance Florence and once owned by a pope, a forged medieval charter, and one of the earliest known examples of arguably the first “textbook” in Western history.

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