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Talking about early digital facsimiles with Sarah Werner

January 31, 2018 - Aaron T. Pratt

Sarah Werner is a book historian and digital strategist based in Washington, D.C. [Read more…] about Talking about early digital facsimiles with Sarah Werner

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1 Tagged With: digital collection, digital preservation, early books and manuscripts, Lecture, Pforzheimer curator

In the Galleries: Interactive design in early printed books

January 4, 2018 - Aaron T. Pratt

In early July 2017, a little over a month after I started as the new early books and manuscripts curator at the Ransom Center, a colleague informed me that [Read more…] about In the Galleries: Interactive design in early printed books

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1 Tagged With: early books and manuscripts, Kozmetsky Family Foundation, Leonard Thurneisser zum Thurn, Reissa Foundation, Stories to Tell, volvelles, woodcut

A baroness and her bookshelves in an English parish church

October 19, 2017 - Aaron T. Pratt

In May, the Ransom Center acquired two volumes of Ambrose’s Opera (or Works) in Latin. The edition was published in Basel in 1567. What is most compelling about these particular books, however, is less the writings of the Church Father, as such, and more their story as books.  [Read more…] about A baroness and her bookshelves in an English parish church

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: Ambrose, Anne Harrington, early books and manuscripts

Instructions for reading aloud in the Gutenberg Bible

July 5, 2017 - Aaron T. Pratt

As many readers of this blog will know, Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust’s Biblia latina (Mainz, 1454–1455) represents the first substantial book printed from moveable type on a printing press. Without question, it is a milestone in information technology. And yet, it is important to remember that [Read more…] about Instructions for reading aloud in the Gutenberg Bible

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: Aaron T. Pratt, Biblia Latina, early books and manuscripts, Gutenberg Bible, Johann Fust, Johann Gutenberg, Mainz, Pforzheimer curator

Harry Ransom Center appoints curator of early books and manuscripts

May 23, 2017 - Suzanne Krause

The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin announces its appointment of Aaron T. Pratt as Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts. Pratt, who begins May 30, will provide curatorial support for the Ransom Center’s early book and manuscript holdings and participate in a variety of activities that promote their teaching and research use. [Read more…] about Harry Ransom Center appoints curator of early books and manuscripts

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Meet the Staff Tagged With: Aaron T. Pratt, Curator, early books and manuscripts, Ohio State, Pforzheimer, Pforzheimer curator, Pratt, Yale University

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