Sarah Werner is a book historian and digital strategist based in Washington, D.C.
early books and manuscripts
In the Galleries: Interactive design in early printed books
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
A baroness and her bookshelves in an English parish church
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.