Subscribe to RSS FeedBellingham’s Commonplace Book online
The Rare Books & Manuscripts Library is pleased to announce the completion of an ambitious project to digitize the seventeenth-century manuscript commonplace book of Sir Henry Bellingham. The project is live at http://library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/bellingham/. This project was researched, designed, and created by Sarah Shippy, a graduate student in OSU’s Department of History. Essentially scrapbooks of useful [...]
Rave Reviews for Visual Poetry Catalog
The recently published catalog, Visual Poetry in the Avant Writing Collection has received very positive reviews in three key publications: Umbrella, June 2008, says the book is “beautifully printed and designed, [and] belongs to every art as well as literature collection…anywhere”. The book review journal Rain Taxi, Winter 2008-2009, calls it a “stunning catalog” and [...]
New Book by John M. Bennett
Blue Lion Books has just published a book by John M. Bennett, SPITTING DDREAMS. SPITTING DDREAMS consists of 2 books written in the late 1970′s through early 1980′s, “Spitting” and “Ddreams”, never before published. “Spitting” includes poems from Bennett’s “Spitter” period, and employs various lunatic repetitive and anaphoric techniques. “Ddreams” is very different: a series [...]
Scarring, tears, veins and hair: The imperfections of medieval parchment
Throughout November I had the privilege of working with our modest, but very impressive, collection of medieval manuscripts as I prepared for a series of lectures on medieval books and manuscript production and began surveying our holdings in relation to a variety of other possible projects (research, conservation, acquisitions strategizing, digitizing, etc.). As I worked [...]
