Research Catalog

Title

Certaine worthye manuscripts : medieval books in the Fisher Library / exhibition and catalogue by Pearce J. Carefoote, Timothy Perry, & Nadav Sharon.

Author

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, publisher, host institution.

Publication

[Toronto, Ontario] : The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, [2022]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Carefoote, Pearce J., 1961-
• Perry, Timothy P. J., 1979-
• Sharon, Nadav, 1978 March 9-

Description

195 pages : color illustrations; 28 cm

Summary

"The medieval bishop and bibliophile Richard de Bury describes books as an "infinite treasure," for they, more than any other human contrivance, are able to preserve the knowledge and the wisdom, as well as the follies and the failures, of previous generations--"in books I find the dead as if they were alive." This exhibition aims to bring the medieval world to life by drawing on the many treasures from the period to be found in the Fisher Library. It will celebrate the medieval book, and the medieval written word more generally, in all its variety in terms of both subject matter and physical form. Included will be books on topics from religion to science and history to the law and in formats from the codex to the charter to the tally stick. Though the main focus of the exhibition will be on medieval manuscripts--that is, books written by hand--it will also explore the transition from handwritten to printed books that began at the very end of the medieval period. Medieval books, and especially their aesthetic qualities, have been a recurrent source of inspiration for the makers of books in subsequent periods, and the exhibition will also examine this medievalist tradition in book production, especially in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries."--

Alternative Title

• Certain worthy manuscripts
• Medieval books in the Fisher Library

Subject

• Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library > Exhibitions
• Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
• 1500-1899
• 1700-1999
• Manuscripts, Medieval > Ontario > Toronto > Exhibitions
• Manuscripts, Renaissance > Ontario > Toronto > Exhibitions
• Incunabula > Ontario > Toronto > Exhibitions
• Books > History > 18th century > Exhibitions
• Books > History > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Books > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Incunabula > Ontario > Toronto > Bibliography > Exhibitions
• Books
• Early printed books
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Incunabula
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Ontario > Toronto

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs.
• History.
• Bibliographies.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library from 6 September 2022 to 20 December 2022.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JFF 23-994

ISBN

• 9780772706676
• 0772706670

OCLC

1143249677

Author

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, publisher, host institution.

Title

Certaine worthye manuscripts : medieval books in the Fisher Library / exhibition and catalogue by Pearce J. Carefoote, Timothy Perry, & Nadav Sharon.

Publisher

[Toronto, Ontario] : The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, [2022]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

1500-1899

Chronological Term

1700-1999

Added Author

Carefoote, Pearce J., 1961- writer of added commentary, organizer.

Perry, Timothy P. J., 1979- writer of added commentary, organizer.

Sharon, Nadav, 1978 March 9- writer of added commentary, organizer.

Research Call Number

JFF 23-994