What Can the Lilly Library Do for You? Current and Future Medieval Projects at the Lilly Library (A Panel Discussion)
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana Univ.-Bloomington
Organizer Name
Emerson Storm Fillman Richards
Organizer Affiliation
Lilly Library, Indiana Univ.-Bloomington
Presider Name
Emerson Storm Fillman Richards
Paper Title 1
Lilly Library "Martinellus": Poole 27
Presenter 1 Name
Joseph Morgan
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Indiana Univ.-Bloomington
Paper Title 2
Lilly Library MS Poole 22
Presenter 2 Name
Katie Lyn Peebles
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Marymount Univ.
Paper Title 3
A Testimonie of Antiquitie: The Birth of Anglo-Saxon Type Font in Early Modern England
Presenter 3 Name
Kristin Browning Leaman
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Lilly Library, Indiana Univ.-Bloomington/Purdue Univ.
Paper Title 4
What Can the Lilly Library Do for You? Current and Future Medieval Projects at the Lilly Library
Presenter 4 Name
Cherry Williams
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Lilly Library, Indiana Univ.-Bloomington
Start Date
13-5-2016 3:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1155
Description
Indiana University’s rare books, manuscripts, and special collections library, the Lilly, houses an impressive selection of medieval texts. Christopher de Hamel’s Gilding the Lilly showcases one hundred sumptuously illuminated or famously scribed texts. However, this is a only a small fraction of the approximately 7 million manuscripts within the Lilly, only 20% of which have been catalogued in the Lilly’s Manuscript Index. An open-access library, this facility is an under-appreciated resource available to all of the medievalist community.
Though relatively under-used by outside scholars, unlike the Beinecke which has held the other half of the Lilly’s Ricketts manuscript collection since the 1970s, this library is frequently utilized asset to Indiana’s interdisciplinary medieval graduate students. This panel will showcase the Lilly’s holdings and scholarship benefitting from the Lilly’s collection. In addition to the Lilly-specific aspect of this panel, the panel functions on a universal level to demonstrate how scholars from many disciplines benefit from direct research from manuscripts, and to promote interdisciplinary discussions on manuscripts.
Emerson Storm Fillman Richards
What Can the Lilly Library Do for You? Current and Future Medieval Projects at the Lilly Library (A Panel Discussion)
Schneider 1155
Indiana University’s rare books, manuscripts, and special collections library, the Lilly, houses an impressive selection of medieval texts. Christopher de Hamel’s Gilding the Lilly showcases one hundred sumptuously illuminated or famously scribed texts. However, this is a only a small fraction of the approximately 7 million manuscripts within the Lilly, only 20% of which have been catalogued in the Lilly’s Manuscript Index. An open-access library, this facility is an under-appreciated resource available to all of the medievalist community.
Though relatively under-used by outside scholars, unlike the Beinecke which has held the other half of the Lilly’s Ricketts manuscript collection since the 1970s, this library is frequently utilized asset to Indiana’s interdisciplinary medieval graduate students. This panel will showcase the Lilly’s holdings and scholarship benefitting from the Lilly’s collection. In addition to the Lilly-specific aspect of this panel, the panel functions on a universal level to demonstrate how scholars from many disciplines benefit from direct research from manuscripts, and to promote interdisciplinary discussions on manuscripts.
Emerson Storm Fillman Richards