{"id":250,"date":"2007-06-21T10:18:23","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T16:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2007\/06\/21\/rare-books-and-manuscripts-at-uima\/"},"modified":"2014-01-09T10:09:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T16:09:48","slug":"rare-books-and-manuscripts-at-uima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2007\/06\/21\/rare-books-and-manuscripts-at-uima\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Books and Manuscripts at UIMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/collguides.lib.uiowa.edu\/?MSC0542\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"01_05a_xmms-an3.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/files\/2007\/06\/01_05a_xmms-an3.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/a>A collection of rare books and manuscripts from UI Libraries will go on public display for the first time at the UI Museum of Art (UIMA) in the exhibition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uiowa.edu\/uima\/exhibitions\/pages\/medieval.htm\">&#8220;From Monks to Masters: The Medieval Manuscript and the Early Printed Book,&#8221; <\/a>June 23-Oct. 7.The exhibition is a collaboration of UI Libraries Special Collections, the Hardin Library&#8217;s Martin Rare Book Room and the UIMA. It was organized by David Schoonover and Gregory Prickman of Special Collections &amp; University Archives at the UI Libraries, and Kathleen Kamerick of the UI Department of History.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition of more than 50 objects explores the transition from a time when books were hand copied by a select group of literate and often religious scribes to the era of mass-produced books created by master printers using the latest 15th-century technology &#8212; the hand-operated wooden printing press.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The university has a very good sampling of the kinds of books that were printed during this early period and we wanted to give the public a chance to see them,&#8221; Prickman said.<\/p>\n<p>Among the books and manuscripts to be put on display are beautiful and <a href=\"http:\/\/collguides.lib.uiowa.edu\/?MSC0542\">intriguing illuminated manuscripts<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/scua\/Incunabula.htm\">fine examples of incunabula (books printed before 1500). <\/a>Together, these books illustrate a pivotal moment in history and demonstrate the relevance of historical materials to modern times.<\/p>\n<p>Individual objects in the exhibition include a 15th-century &#8220;Book of Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary,&#8221; a homily of Pope Gregory the Great from around 1450 and two copies of the <a href=\"http:\/\/infohawk.uiowa.edu\/F?func=direct&amp;doc_number=000621188&amp;local_base=uiowa\">&#8220;Nuremberg Chronicle.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would like to emphasize the teaching function of these collections,&#8221; said Schoonover, who is curator of rare books at the UI libraries. &#8220;Instructors at this university across the humanities have used these books in the classrooms, from medieval history and art history to the language arts, religious studies and music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This exhibition is open to the public free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>The UI Museum of Art, located on North Riverside Drive in Iowa City, is open noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, and noon to 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday. Admission is free. Public metered parking is available in UI parking lots west and north of the museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collection of rare books and manuscripts from UI Libraries will go on public display for the first time at the UI Museum of Art (UIMA) in the exhibition &#8220;From Monks to Masters: The Medieval Manuscript and the Early Printed Book,&#8221; June 23-Oct. 7.The exhibition is a collaboration of UI Libraries Special Collections, the Hardin<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2007\/06\/21\/rare-books-and-manuscripts-at-uima\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Rare Books and Manuscripts at UIMA&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3326,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/3326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}