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Sunday, December 13th, 2009The Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project is online. The impressive website will be useful for early modernists with many different interests. From the website: The Archive of Dulwich College in London, England, holds thousands of pages of manuscripts left to the College by its founder, the eminent actor Edward Alleyn (1566-1626). This archive includes his personal and [...]
Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009The University of Toronto has an online archive of materials relating to Wenceslaus Hollar. The website introduction says: Hollar was born in 1607, the son of an upper middle-class civic official. Very little is known about his early life, but he evidently learned the rudiments of his craft by age eighteen, left his native Prague [...]
New Medieval and Renaissance Galleries Now Open at the V&A
Saturday, December 5th, 2009The V&A has opened its new Medieval and Renaissance Galleries. As they say on their website: Beautiful and innovative, the V&A’s new Medieval & Renaissance Galleries are home to one of the world’s most remarkable collections of treasures from the period. These range from delicately carved ivories and intricate metalwork to Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks [...]
Fugger Family Manuscripts at the Bavarian State Library
Friday, December 4th, 2009The Fugger family became one of Europe’s most powerful merchant dynasties. Ennobled at the beginning of the 16th century, the Fuggers started to withdraw step by step from business during the second half of the century. In the decades following 1600 they adopted an aristocratic lifestyle. The Bavarian State library acquired two manuscripts relating to [...]
A Woman’s Wit: Jane Austen’s Life and Legacy
Friday, November 6th, 2009A Woman’s Wit: Jane Austen’s Life and Legacy The Morgan Library and Museum 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street New York, NY 6 November 2009 – 14 March 2010 A new exhibition featuring the life and work of Jane Austen opens in New York today. From the Morgan Library website: This exhibition explores the life, [...]
Grotius and the Freedom of the Seas, 1609
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009In celebration of the anniversary of the publication of Hugo Grotius’s Mare Liberum in 1609 the Yale Law Library Rare Books Department Blog is offering an online exhibition of books related to the debate about the freedom of the seas. Works by Grotius, Alberico Gentili, Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, John Selden, William Welwood, Juan de Solorzano [...]
Carnivalesque 54 at Early Modern Notes
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009There are some weird and wonderful early modern links at Early Modern Notes. Carnivalesque 54 has links to blogs with serious – and not so serious! – links to early modern history, politics, and literature. Enjoy!
‘I see dead people’s books’ at LibraryThing
Monday, September 7th, 2009LibraryThing.com is website which allows library enthusiasts to create their own online library catalogues. It also hosts a growing selection of historic collections which were owned by famous people. The catalogues range from early modern times to the (almost) present. Some early modern examples include the libraries of Marie Antoinette (736 books), Thomas Jefferson (5,419 [...]
More on William Weston’s Voyage from Dr Evan Jones
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009Dr Evan Jones of the University of Bristol has been in touch with more information about William Weston’s voyage to the New World in 1499 which I posted about last week. Dr Jones has also mentioned that there’s a Birkbeck connection to the story since Dr Alwyn Ruddock who did a lot of research on [...]
Medieval and Renaissance Gallery at the V&A
Monday, August 24th, 2009The Victoria and Albert Museum will open its new Medieval and Renaissance Gallery in November 2009. You can follow the process of creating the gallery here: http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1265_frost/”>. The new gallery promises to be rather spectacular with more than 1800 objects on display and a huge glass roof over them to let in daylight. To highlight [...]
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