The conference will be held at the University of St Andrews, the full programme can be downloaded here and registration is now open.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Thursday 19 June
All sessions located in the New Seminar Room.
Registration (Old Class Library) 10.00 am – 10.45 am
Welcome (New Seminar Room) 10.45-11.00
Session 1: ABSENT FRIENDS: MATERIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY AND THE SEARCH FOR LOST BOOKS 11.00-12.30
Chair: Andrew Pettegree (University of St Andrews)
Falk Eisermann (Berlin State Library): The Gutenberg Galaxy’s Dark Matter: Lost Incunabula, and Ways to Retrieve Them
Neil Harris (University of Udine): A Spanner in the Statistical Machine. The Deplorable Behaviour of the Miscellany
12.30-2.00 lunch
Session 2: INVENTORIES 2.00-3.30
Alexandra Hill (University of St Andrews): The Stationers’ Company Register and Lost Print in England, 1557-1640
Roberto Rusconi (University of RomaTre): The Devil’s Trick. Editions in the Lists of Titles from the Regular Orders in Italy at the End of the 16th Century
Wolfgang Undorf (National Library of Sweden): Approaching the Unknown: Lost Books in Scandinavian pre-Reformation Book History
Coffee (The Undercroft) 3.30-4.00
Session 3: DISPERSED COLLECTIONS I 4.00-5.30
Maria Teresa Biagetti (Sapienza University of Rome): Dispersed Collections of Scientific Books: the Case of the Private Library of Federico Cesi (1585-1630)
Domenico Ciccarello (University of Palermo): Lost Books and Dispersed Libraries in Sicily. A Few Examples from 16th- and 17th-century Printed Works
Anna Giulia Cavagna (University of Genoa): Loss and Recovery: the 16th-century Library of Alfonso Del Carretto
EXHIBITION IN THE KING JAMES LIBRARY 6.00
Daryl Green (University of St Andrews, Special Collections): Found Books, or, New Old Books and Where We Find Them
Conference Dinner (The Vineleaf) 7.30Friday 20 June
All sessions located in the New Seminar Room.
Breakfast (Agnes Blackadder Hall) 7.30-8.30
Session 4: MODELLING BOOK SURVIVAL 9.00-11.00
Katia Toia (University of Siena): The Survival of the Incunabula in Milan: First Investigations
Goran Proot (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC): Survival Factors of 17th-century Flanders Imprints: Sheet Counts and Sammelbände
Jonathan Green (University of North Dakota): A Drake Equation for Incunable Survival: Early Printing and the Digital Humanities
Coffee (The Undercroft) 11.00-11.30
Session 5: DISPERSED COLLECTIONS II 11.30-1.00
Lluís Agustí – Pedro Rueda (University of Barcelona): Lost Books in the Hispanic World: Case Studies
Alison Walker (British Library): Lost in Plain Sight: Reconstructing the Library of Sir Hans Sloane
Mark Towsey (University of Liverpool): Community Libraries
Lunch (The Undercroft) 1.00-2.30
Session 6: LOST EDITIONS 2.30-4.00
Chair: Chair 6 (institution)
Sara Barker (University of Exeter): Found (and Faked) in Translation: Reflections & Case Studies from European News Pamphlets
Michele Camaioni (IISS Benedetto Croce, Naples): The Editorial History of a Rare and Forbidden
Franciscan Spiritual Book of the Italian Cinquecento: the Dyalogo della unione spirituale dell’anima con Dio by Bartolomeo Cordoni
Coffee (The Undercroft) 4.00-4.30
Session 7: MUSIC AND HISTORY 4.30-5.30
Chair: Chair 7 (institution)
Luigi Collarile (University of Fribourg): Lost Italian Music Editions before 1800. First Results of a Bibliographical Survey
Paolo Giorgi (University of Cremona): Lost Music Books from the 17th Century: Reconstructing the Printed Music Corpus by Maurizio Cazzati
RECEPTION AT THE NEW RESEARCH LIBRARY AND BOOK LAUNCH (Martyrs) 6.00- 7.30
Conference Dinner (The Rocca at the Rusacks Hotel) 7.45Saturday 21 June
All sessions located in the New Seminar Room.
Breakfast (Agnes Blackadder Hall) 7.30-8.30
Session 8: DISPERSED COLLECTIONS III 9.00-11.00
Natalie Kent (University of London): The pre-Fire Library of the College of Physicians, London
Jan Luigi Alessandrini (University of St Andrews): Hamburg Library: Loss, Survival, and Reconstruction
Tomasz Nastulczyk (Jagiellonian University, Krakow): Two Centuries of Looting and the grand Nazi Book Burning. Destroyed and Dispersed Libraries of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Historical Losses and Contemporary Attempts of Reconstruction
Coffee (The Undercroft) 11.00-11.30
Session 9: CHEAP PRINT 11.30-12.30
Chair: Chair 9 (institution)
Saskia Limbach (University of St Andrews): Challenges of Finding Broadsheet Ordinances Printed in 16th-century Cologne
Bettina Wagner (Bayerische StaatsBibliothek München): Lost in Description. Surviving Examples of Late Mediaeval and Early Modern Primers
CLOSING REMARKS 12.30
Andrew Pettegree (University of St Andrews): Lost Books: Bibliography’s Final Frontier?