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Jul 12 2016

YouTube Series If Books Could Talk Finishes Final Episode

Posted on July 12, 2016January 29, 2021 by Colleen Theisen

Colleen and HeatherIf Books Could Talk is a collaboration between Heather Wacha from History Corps, a digital public history project from the History Department at the University of Iowa, Colleen Theisen, Outreach & Engagement Librarian from Special Collections, and Katie Buehner, Head of the Rita Benton Music Library from the University of Iowa Libraries. Heather Wacha researched and wrote the episodes, Colleen Theisen served as the host, and Katie Buehner filmed and edited the series.

“If Books Could Talk,” explains that the paper, bindings, bookplates, repairs, stains, handwritten notes, stamps, and markings all leave traces that give clues to how they were made, where they have been, and can even tell about the lives of the people who have read them.

The final episode appears below. In it, Heather and Colleen examine two Medieval manuscript leaves and what we can learn from the layout, chapter headings, verse numbers and more. How does a Medieval manuscript Bible leaf differ from a Bible printed today, and what features have remained throughout the years?

Find out in the final episode of If Books Could Talk:

 

Or catch up on the whole series:

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Posted in EducationalTagged Bible, colleen theisen, heather wacha, if books could talk, Katie Buehner, medieval manuscript, youtube
Close up on the word cantrix
Mar 09 2016

Public History Partners Follow the Trail of a Dismantled and Lost Medieval Manuscript

Posted on March 9, 2016January 29, 2021 by Colleen Theisen

Where are your other leaves? Re-discovering the Wilton Processional

Close up on the word cantrixEven a single page from a medieval book can hold many secrets. Sometimes there are enough clues to uncover a surprising history.

In March 2015, Heather Wacha, a PhD student in the History Department, and a member of History Corps, was assisting Special Collections in identifying a leaf that had been cut out of a medieval manuscript. Further investigation of this manuscript’s clues has since drawn together librarians, graduate students, and UNI professor Dr. Alison Altstatt. Together, they have uncovered a story spanning centuries of a manuscript that was once created, then lost, then broken by notorious book breaker Otto Ege, and is now finally, refound: The Wilton Processional.

 

Special Collections is very pleased to bring you episode five from the “If Books Could Talk” video series, Where are your other leaves? Re-discovering the Wilton Processional

Watch the 16 minute video below, and read Heather Wacha’s more extensive essay about this manuscript leaf on the History Corps website. https://thestudio.uiowa.edu/historycorps/exhibits/show/books/episode5

Further information: Alison Altstatt, “Re-membering the Wilton Processional,” in Notes: the Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 72:4 (forthcoming June 2016), 690-732.

Hosts: Colleen Theisen and Heather Wacha
Guests: Michele Aichele and Alison Altstatt
Written by: Heather Wacha
Edited by: Katie Buehner
Essay: Heather Wacha

Posted in EducationalTagged colleen theisen, Dr. Alison Altstatt, heather wacha, if books could talk, Katie Buehner, medieval manuscripts, Michele Aichele, Otto Ege, The Wilton Processional

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