PrintingandMisprinting:TypographicalMistakesandPublishers’Corrections(1450-1650)

LincolnCollege,Oxford,20-21April2018

Convenors:GeriDellaRoccadeCandalandPaoloSachetPROGRAMMEFriday20April,LincolnCollege,OakeshottRoom9.00amRegistrationandCoffee9.30amOpeningRemarksSESSION1.HUMANISMANDLITERATUREChair:AnthonyGrafton(PrincetonUniversity)9.40amGeriDellaRoccadeCandal(UniversityofOxford)&PaoloSachet(USI,Lugano/UniversityofMilan),ManusManutii:CorrectionsintheAldinePress10.00amMartaCelati(UniversityofOxford),PrintingandPoliticsinItalianHumanism:Typos,ManuscriptandStop-pressEmendationsintheEditioPrincepsofPoliziano’sConiurationiscommentarium10.20amPabloAlvarez(UniversityofMichigan),FernandodeHerreraContraErrata:ARe-EvaluationofhisEditionofGarcilasodelaVega10.40amDirkImhof(Plantin-MoretusMuseum,Antwerp),ManagingMisprints:JanMoretusI’sDiverseApproachestoCorrectingErrors11.00amDiscussion11.15amCoffeeBreakSESSION2.RELIGIONChair:IanMaclean(UniversityofOxford)11.30amFrancoisDupuigrenetDesroussilles(FloridaStateUniversity/USI,Lugano),Paris1538:MisprintingtheWordofGod11.50amVeronikaSladka(LibraryoftheCzechAcademyofSciences,Prague),EditorialStrategyoftheUnityofBrethren12.10pmMatthewDay(NewmanUniversity,Birmingham),‘ButtowhosechargeshallIlayit?YourPrinterisallreadieloaden’:TheRhetoricofPrinters’ErrorsinEarlyModernTexts12.30pmDiscussion12.45pmLunchBreak

SESSION3.SCIENCEChair:RichardCalis(PrincetonUniversity)14.00pmRichardL.Kremer(DartmouthCollege),ControllingErrorsintheFirstPrintedBookofAstronomicalTables:Regiomontanus’sEphemerides,Nuremberg147414.20pmMichałChoptiany(UniversityofWarsaw),BetweentheStudyandthePrinter’sOffice:BartholomaeusScultetus,hisManuscripts,andtheArduousPathtoPublishingintheLateSixteenth-CenturyGörlitz14.40pmGrigoryVorobyev(InstituteforLinguisticStudies,SaintPetersburg),MisprintingAristotle:TheBirthandLifeofaFrankenstein’sFish15.00pmDiscussion15.15amCoffeeBreakSESSION4.WIDECIRCULATIONChair:CristinaDondi(UniversityofOxford)15.30pmAnnaDlabačová(LeidenUniversity),ModifyingandSubstitutingImagesinIncunabula:TheCaseofGerardLeeu’sOnJesus’ChildhoodMoralised(1488)15.50pmLauraCarnelos(UniversityofReading),LearningfromMistakes:PaperandPrintingDefectsinSixteenth-CenturyItalianPopularBooks16.10pmJanHillgaertner(UniversityofStAndrews),ThePitfallsofSeriality:MistakesintheEarliestPeriodicals16.30pmDiscussion17.00pmAnthonyGrafton(PrincetonUniversity),KeynoteLecture18.00pmDrinksReceptionSaturday21April,LincolnCollege,OakeshottRoom9.00amCoffeeSESSION5.TYPOGRAPHYChair:HenryWoudhuysen(UniversityofOxford)9.20amClaireBolton(IndependentScholar,Oxford),FallenType:TheBenefitsofaPrinter’sError9.40amRandallHerz(FAU,Erlangen-Nuremberg),ProofsheetsasEvidenceofEarlyPre-publicationProcedures10.00amJamesMisson(UniversityofOxford),KludgingType:SomeWorkaroundsinEarlyEnglishPrinting10.20amDiscussionSESSION6.PRINTINGSESSION(OldBodleian,BibliographyRoom)10.45amPrintingsessiononprintingerrors.OrganisedbytheBodleian’sCentrefortheStudyoftheBookandhostedbytheBodleian’shand-printerRichardLawrenceSESSION7.VISITTOTHEBODLEIANPRINTING&MISPRINTINGTEMPORARYEXHIBITION12.15pmGroupvisittothetemporaryexhibitionorganisedbytheBodleianLibraryintheProscholiumNoteDuetonumberrestrictions,duringthelasttwosessionsconferenceparticipantswillbedividedintotwogroups:onewillattendtheprintingsessionfirst,followedbythevisittotheexhibition;theotherwillvisittheexhibitionfirst,followedbytheprintingsession.