Tricks of the Trade: Histories of Buying, Selling, and Acquiring Medieval Manuscript Books and Documents

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts Project, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Organizer Name

Lynn Ransom

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Presider Name

Lynn Ransom

Paper Title 1

The Market of Memory: Selling Historical Documents in Nineteenth-Century France

Presenter 1 Name

Luca Fois

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. degli Studi di Milano

Paper Title 2

Desirable Items to Complete a Gentleman’s Library: Manuscript Provenance in One Hundred Fifty Years of Quaritch Catalogs

Presenter 2 Name

Courtney Rydel

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Paper Title 3

Value in the Life of a Tenth-Century Qur’an

Presenter 3 Name

Heather Bamford

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Texas State Univ.-San Marcos

Start Date

11-5-2012 1:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1235