The Centre hosts the following lecture – Professor Tamara Atkin (English Faculty & The Queen’s College, Oxford): ‘On Fragments’

Abstract: In 2019, The Foundation of Christ’s Hospital at Lincoln made a bequest of early printed books to the Bodleian Library. The collection is rich in sixteenth-century tooled bindings, many of which preserve manuscript and printed waste in the form of pastedowns, endleaves, and endleaf guards. Using this collection as a case-study, this talk will explore the interactions between manuscript and print in the bindings of sixteenth-century books.

Above: Lincoln CHS 33, endleaf guard and endleaves