Christopher Clarkson, who died just before midnight on Thursday 30 March at the age of 78, was the pre-eminent conservator of medieval manuscripts and early printed books and a much-respected historian of book-binding and in particular of the structural history of bookbinding, specializing in the period from the birth of the codex to the early Renaissance.
The conference will take place on Friday, 24th February, from 10am to 6pm, in Banqueting Hall of the Chelsea College of Arts and Design, University of the Arts London, John Islip Street, SW1P 4JU
and it will be followed by a reception.
We are pleased to announce the forthcoming international workshop on the materiality of written culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: On the Matter of Books and Records. Forms, Substance, Forgeries, and Meanings Beyond the Lines, organised by the AR.C.H.I.ves Project (Birkbeck, University of London), the Ligatus Research Centre (University of the Arts London) and the History of Design Programme (Royal College of Art / Victoria & Albert Museum).
You are cordially invited to the Ligatus and CERL Bookbinding Seminars, Plenary Session and Reception that will take place on 23rd June 2015 at Chelsea College of Arts, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU.
Places are limited therefore early booking is recommended.
Please see a recent article on the Times Higher Education website with a reference to Ligatus and Prof. Pickwoad's talk:
Professor Pickwoad is presenting 'Giving Support on The Shelf: The History, Development and Construction of The Book Shoe', the first in a selection of seminars taking place to celebrate 21 years of Conservation By Design.
For more information, please go to: http://www.conservation-by-design.co.uk/home.aspx?pagename=21seminar
On Thursday, 11 April 2013, Professor Pickwoad took part in the presentation at the Bijzondere Collecties of Amsterdam University Library of the discovery of two leaves from a lectionary written in about 860 in the royal scriptorium of Charles the Bald, King of the West Franks.
Professor Nicholas Pickwoad will be at the conference, John Baskerville: art, industry and technology in the Enlightenmentin Birmingham from 6-7th April. Contributing to the section, 'Baskerville and his products', Professor Pickwoad's lecture is titled: 'Books bound after what manner you please: English bookbinding in the mid-eighteenth century'.
For more information please go to: http://www.typographichub.org/diary/entry/baskerville-enlightenment/
The exhibition entitled 'Piel sobre tabla', or in English, 'Leather on Wood' opens today at the The Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid. Focusing on Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages, where between 711 and 1609, Jews, Muslims and Christians shared a common space. This exhibition demonstrates how this co-habitation led to the development of a binding style called Mudéjar, unique to this area of Spain, through the extensive range of examples in the library's collection.
The exhibition runs from 12 March - 19 May, 2013.
