Admission Requirements
None.
Description
Although printed books all look the same at the moment they leave the printing office, in their subsequent life they obtain unique features in the hands of their readers and users. This course looks at the physical evidence of these of individual ‘book histories’, such as book bindings, marks of provenance, marginalia, traces of censorship etc. The material used comes from the Leiden Special Collections.
Course Objectives
Students:
Learn to use and appraise physical evidence of the use of books by working with primary source material and secondary literature;
Learn to write a research paper.
Timetable
The timetable will be available from July 1 onwards on the Department website.
Mode of Instruction
Seminars; presentations.
Assessment
Written paper.
Blackboard
This course is supported by Blackboard.
Reading list
To be announced.
Registration
Students can register through uSis.
Exchange and Study Abroad students, please see the Study in Leiden website for information on how to apply.
Contact information
Department of Book and Digital Media Studies, P.N. van Eyckhof 4, building 1168, room 102c, tel. 071 527 2144, email: bookstudies@hum.leidenuniv.nl; p.g.hoftijzer@hum.leidenuniv.nl.