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Though modern day notions of the book tend to be conceptualized in the form of paginated codices, “book” is a capacious term. The physical form of the book, which changes through time and endless technological developments, has a rich history that forms the basis of bibliography and the basis of how our societies consume information today. | Though modern day notions of the book tend to be conceptualized in the form of paginated codices, “book” is a capacious term. The physical form of the book, which changes through time and endless technological developments, has a rich history that forms the basis of bibliography and the basis of how our societies consume information today. | ||
This site is a compilation of the research conducted across the [http://digitalbookhistory.com/culturesofthebook/Material_Book_Cultures_Through_the_Ages Fall 2018], [http://digitalbookhistory.com/culturesofthebook/Remote_Book_History_Resources Fall 2020], and Spring | This site is a compilation of the research conducted across the [http://digitalbookhistory.com/culturesofthebook/Material_Book_Cultures_Through_the_Ages Fall 2018], [http://digitalbookhistory.com/culturesofthebook/Remote_Book_History_Resources Fall 2020], Spring 2022, Spring 2023, and Spring 2024 classes of Professor Whitney Trettien’s [https://www.english.upenn.edu/courses/undergraduate/2018/fall/engl034.001 Cultures of the Book undergraduate seminar]. The Fall 2018 page, [[Material Book Cultures Through the Ages]], emphasized observing materiality, especially in the form of numerous objects from the [https://www.library.upenn.edu/kislak University of Pennsylvania's Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts] collection, unraveling discussions on the creation of meaning beyond content, from [http://digitalbookhistory.com/culturesofthebook/Parchment parchment] and [http://digitalbookhistory.com/culturesofthebook/Page_Numbers pagination] to [http://digitalbookhistory.com/culturesofthebook/Early_Duplicators mimeographs] and [http://digitalbookhistory.com/culturesofthebook/HTML_and_the_World_Wide_Web HTML], various book technologies were explored through presentations before being turned into research papers. In 2020, our class, which was taught remotely, heavily utilized Amaranth Borsuk's text "The Book" as a central framework for our understanding of what a “book” is. This central text considered the complex history of the book as a technology, as well as the various methods of analysis scholars employ when studying the book. Moreover, Borsuk’s writing also pushed us as a class to challenge our notions of what makes a book a book, allowing us to better understand the true breadth of scholarly considerations of the book as a technology. In 2022 and 2023, each member of the class adopted a book from Kislak's special collections to research, with help from John Pollack and the staff at the library. Each student wrote a material text analysis as well as original research on these unique items. | ||
Among other topics, researchers in this class have focused on: | Among other topics, researchers in this class have focused on: | ||
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== 2023 Contributions == | == 2023 Contributions == | ||
[[ | Each of these entries links to an article on a unique book in Kislak's special collections. | ||
[[William B. Richard World War II letters]] | |||
[[Tunnel book depicting a promenade on the Champs-Élysées]] | |||
[[Recipe Book]] | |||
[[Collection of Chinese Culture: Stone Rubbings]] | [[Collection of Chinese Culture: Stone Rubbings]] | ||
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[[Every Man His Own Physician]] | [[Every Man His Own Physician]] | ||
[[A Friend in Need: English-Tamil Cookery Book]] | |||
[[Balthazar Solvyns' Etchings of Colonial India]] | |||
[[A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica]] | |||
[[A Pesach Sampler: from appetizer to afikomen]] | |||
[[A North African Megillat Esther]] | |||
[[Jiu Huang Ben Cao: A Plant Atlas for Famine]] | |||
[[John Gay's Polly (1729)]] | |||
[[The Indian fighter!! and Ghost of Morgan!!! : Together with a great variety of other tales;--"To amuse the odd, the comical and queer."]] | |||
[[The Experienced English Housekeeper]] | |||
[[Alchemical Miscellany]] | |||
[[The hierarchie of the blessed angells: their names, order and offices: the fall of Lucifer with his angels]] | |||
[[芥子園重訂本草綱目:a reprint version in Qing Dynasty of the Bible of Traditioanl Chinese Medicine]] | |||
[[Leaves of Grass]] | |||
[[Early England Soup Societies]] | |||
[[Springs, An Artist Book by Enid Mark]] | |||
[[Wa-Kan kōsō shige shō]] | |||
[[Ruptures, Their Causes and Varieties : With Various Methods for Curing Them]] | |||
[[American and British Ballads, Circa 18th-19th Centuries]] | |||
[[Beyond Pedagogy and Aesthetics: Werner Pfeiffer's ''Errantry'']] | |||
[[How to Know the Wild Flowers]] | |||
[[ State of the Union: a Snapshot of Our Political and Social Conundrum]] | |||
[[A Combination Canvassing Book]] | |||
[[The American Flag: Reconstructed]] | |||
[[The Ten Pleasures of Marriage, relating all the delights and contentments that are mask'd under the bands of matrimony]] | |||
[[The Black Panther Ministry of Information]] | |||
[[Emily Martin's Fly Away]] | |||
[[Songs; Collections of American sheet music bound into volumes by their original owners between 1820 and 1860]] | |||
[[Natural History of Serpents]] | |||
[[The Handmade Papers of Japan]] | |||
[[Swirls: James Prez's Ode to Duchamp]] | |||
[[Les Révolutions de France et de Brabant: Risks and Rewards]] | |||
[[A course of chirurgical operations, demonstrated in the Royal Garden at Paris / by Monsieur Dionis ... ; translated from the Paris edition.]] | |||
[[Medicinal Experiments, or, A Collection of Choice and Safe Remedies]] | |||
== 2024 contributions == | |||
[[Balzaculator : la Comédie humaine as a binary system for Balzacolytes]] | |||
[[The Fettered Lettered]] | |||
[[Model of the Medieval Girdle Book]] | |||
[[Susan Kae Grant - Radioactive Substances]] | |||
[[The Traveller's Pocket Farrier Handbook]] | |||
[[Curious Flap Anatomies - 19th Century Obstetrics]] | |||
[[The Golden Touch]] | |||
[[Woman in girlhood-wifehood-motherhood]] | |||
[[Traveller’s Pocket Companion - British Isles & Ireland]] | |||
[[A Compendium of Ancient Astronomy and Medicine]] | |||
[[A Guide to Higher Learning]] | |||
[[British Family's Recipe Book: 1747-1807]] | |||
[[Queen's Closet Opened]] | |||
[[A Broadside series]] | |||
[[Recipe Book: Ms. Codex 2142]] | |||
[[Album de stampine antiche]] | |||
[[Seasonal Turns]] | |||
[[Aristotle's Politiques (London 1598)]] | |||
[["Common Sense", Early Edition - Thomas Paine]] | |||
[[A Response to Gilbert Tennent on The Doctrine of Christianity]] | |||
[[Sefer Midrash Rabbot]] | |||
[[An Inaugural Essay on Scurvy]] | |||
[[William Pybus Book of Recipes, Remedies, and Experiments]] | |||
[[Sefer Uklidus Ha-Hakham]] | |||
[[The Note-Maker Noted: Colonial Political Discourse]] | |||
[[Poems by John Donne; with Elegies on the Author’s Death]] | |||
[[Hacienda]] | |||
[[Medicinal and Cooking Recipe Book (Petre D.)]] | |||
[[La femme heroique, ou les heroines comparées avec les heros en toute sorte de vertus...]] | |||
[[An Actual Survey of All Principal Roads of England and Wales]] | |||
[[Liber de Arte Distillandi de Simplicibus]] | |||
[[The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies]] | |||
[[Fancy Dresses Described]] | |||
[[A collection of five birth control pamplets from the 1930s]] | |||
[[Anatomy of the Human Body]] | |||
[[Grand Musical Staircase]] | |||
[[Thomas Herbert's Account of Africa, Persia, and Beyond]] | |||
[[The timber-tree improved, or, The best practical methods of improving different lands, with proper timber...]] | |||
[[The theater of nature, or, Curiosity filled the cabinet]] | |||
[[Insect Architecture]] | |||
[[The Campden Wonder]] | |||
[["Errantry" by Werner Pfeiffer]] | |||
== License == | == License == | ||
The content in this book is licensed Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International unless otherwise stated on individual pages, in which case the individual licenses supercede this general one. To understand your rights as a user of this website, please see this page: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ | The content in this book is licensed Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International unless otherwise stated on individual pages, in which case the individual licenses supercede this general one. To understand your rights as a user of this website, please see this page: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ | ||
Latest revision as of 18:30, 22 May 2024
Though modern day notions of the book tend to be conceptualized in the form of paginated codices, “book” is a capacious term. The physical form of the book, which changes through time and endless technological developments, has a rich history that forms the basis of bibliography and the basis of how our societies consume information today.
This site is a compilation of the research conducted across the Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, and Spring 2024 classes of Professor Whitney Trettien’s Cultures of the Book undergraduate seminar. The Fall 2018 page, Material Book Cultures Through the Ages, emphasized observing materiality, especially in the form of numerous objects from the University of Pennsylvania's Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts collection, unraveling discussions on the creation of meaning beyond content, from parchment and pagination to mimeographs and HTML, various book technologies were explored through presentations before being turned into research papers. In 2020, our class, which was taught remotely, heavily utilized Amaranth Borsuk's text "The Book" as a central framework for our understanding of what a “book” is. This central text considered the complex history of the book as a technology, as well as the various methods of analysis scholars employ when studying the book. Moreover, Borsuk’s writing also pushed us as a class to challenge our notions of what makes a book a book, allowing us to better understand the true breadth of scholarly considerations of the book as a technology. In 2022 and 2023, each member of the class adopted a book from Kislak's special collections to research, with help from John Pollack and the staff at the library. Each student wrote a material text analysis as well as original research on these unique items.
Among other topics, researchers in this class have focused on:
- substrates: how do paper, parchment, and palm-leaf, among other materials, inform us of the contexts in which works were created?
- inscriptions: what implications do para-texts such as footnotes and apparatus such as binding have on the way content will be consumed?
- and platforms: in what ways do devices, software / hardware, and operating systems contribute function transitionally to give voice to content?
2018 Contributions
This page contains a compilation of resources from the Kislak Center gathered by the 2018 class.
Material Book Cultures Through the Ages
2020 Contributions
2022 Contributions
Each of these entries links to an article on a unique book in Kislak's special collections.
A Brief State on the Province of Pennsylvania
Chinese Poetry Paper by the Master of the Ten Bamboo Hall
John B. Thayer Titanic Memorial Collection
John Wright Commonplace Book: A Unique Late 18th-Century Manuscript
Perpetual Card: Vaticinia Varia
A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke
Home Economics Foods and Food Preparation
Mayan Medical Receipts and Spanish Translation
The Graphic: a Premier Illustrated Newspaper
William Penn's 1683 Letter to the Free Society of Traders
The Provincial Freeman and Weekly Advertiser
Maps and Plans Illustrative of Thucydides
House of Mystery, Volume 2: Love Stories for Dead People
The Boke of Common Prayer (1583?)
A British Soldier's Photoalbum of India
2023 Contributions
Each of these entries links to an article on a unique book in Kislak's special collections.
William B. Richard World War II letters
Tunnel book depicting a promenade on the Champs-Élysées
Collection of Chinese Culture: Stone Rubbings
Edith Mary Mellor's Travel Diary
Scrapbooks & Theatricals in Philadelphia
A Defense Of The Antient Historians: Ireland and Great-Britain
A Friend in Need: English-Tamil Cookery Book
Balthazar Solvyns' Etchings of Colonial India
A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica
A Pesach Sampler: from appetizer to afikomen
A North African Megillat Esther
Jiu Huang Ben Cao: A Plant Atlas for Famine
The Experienced English Housekeeper
芥子園重訂本草綱目:a reprint version in Qing Dynasty of the Bible of Traditioanl Chinese Medicine
Springs, An Artist Book by Enid Mark
Ruptures, Their Causes and Varieties : With Various Methods for Curing Them
American and British Ballads, Circa 18th-19th Centuries
Beyond Pedagogy and Aesthetics: Werner Pfeiffer's ''Errantry''
State of the Union: a Snapshot of Our Political and Social Conundrum
The American Flag: Reconstructed
The Black Panther Ministry of Information
Swirls: James Prez's Ode to Duchamp
Les Révolutions de France et de Brabant: Risks and Rewards
Medicinal Experiments, or, A Collection of Choice and Safe Remedies
2024 contributions
Balzaculator : la Comédie humaine as a binary system for Balzacolytes
Model of the Medieval Girdle Book
Susan Kae Grant - Radioactive Substances
The Traveller's Pocket Farrier Handbook
Curious Flap Anatomies - 19th Century Obstetrics
Woman in girlhood-wifehood-motherhood
Traveller’s Pocket Companion - British Isles & Ireland
A Compendium of Ancient Astronomy and Medicine
British Family's Recipe Book: 1747-1807
Aristotle's Politiques (London 1598)
"Common Sense", Early Edition - Thomas Paine
A Response to Gilbert Tennent on The Doctrine of Christianity
William Pybus Book of Recipes, Remedies, and Experiments
The Note-Maker Noted: Colonial Political Discourse
Poems by John Donne; with Elegies on the Author’s Death
Medicinal and Cooking Recipe Book (Petre D.)
La femme heroique, ou les heroines comparées avec les heros en toute sorte de vertus...
An Actual Survey of All Principal Roads of England and Wales
Liber de Arte Distillandi de Simplicibus
The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies
A collection of five birth control pamplets from the 1930s
Thomas Herbert's Account of Africa, Persia, and Beyond
The theater of nature, or, Curiosity filled the cabinet
License
The content in this book is licensed Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International unless otherwise stated on individual pages, in which case the individual licenses supercede this general one. To understand your rights as a user of this website, please see this page: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/