Posts by Evyn Kropf

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caucasian presenting man with tan shirt and headphones in profile with stone wall visible behind
  • Philip A Hallman
Join us next Friday 14 April 3-5 pm in the Hatcher Gallery for an event with writer and director John Sayles! Sayles will kick off the Bilmes Visiting Filmmaker series by sharing items of interest he discovered while looking through the archives of fellow maverick directors Orson Welles and Robert Altman.
partially open book with red and black structure folding out from it
  • Jamie Lausch Vander Broek
  • Amy Crist
Join the Special Collections Research Center in Hatcher next Tuesday (11 April) at 4 pm for our final After Hours open house of the Winter term, exploring a selection of moveable books!
printed page of latin text with large initial A and border of vines and leaves in black with green and gold accents
  • Pablo Alvarez
  • Shannon Zachary
Join us this Wednesday, 8 March, at 4 pm for refreshments, viewing, and casual conversation with the student curators of "Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books"!
architectural scene of cityscape in black and beige
  • Pablo Alvarez
Join the Special Collections Research Center in Hatcher next Tuesday (14 March) at 4 pm for our third After Hours open house of the Winter term, exploring a selection of early rare books and prints containing images printed with the technique of relief (woodcuts) and intaglio (copperplate engravings).
printed page of latin text with large initial A and border of vines and leaves in black with green and gold accents
  • Pablo Alvarez
  • Shannon Zachary
The Special Collections Research Center is pleased to announce a new exhibit featuring the title page. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.
poster with event announcement and images of family seated below potrait floral bouquet architectural cityscape and artists book with curved vertical forms emerging from red cube
  • Evyn Kropf
We are excited to continue our in-person Special Collections After Hours open houses this semester! Join us on the second Tuesday of each month from 4 to 5.30 pm in the Special Collections Research Center on the 6th floor of the Hatcher Graduate Library for an encounter with our collections.
three circular views of greek manuscript text on papyrus, persian manuscript text with astronomical diagram on paper, engraved frontispiece showing European astronomers at work
  • Pablo Alvarez
  • Evyn Kropf
The Special Collections Research Center is pleased to announce a new exhibit featuring a selection of manuscripts, early printed books, and artifacts illustrating Mesopotamian, Greek, Islamic, and Western European astronomies. Join the curators on Thursday, 12 January, 4-6p in the Hatcher Gallery for a reception celebrating the opening of the exhibit followed by an exhibit tour.
open book with arabic script in gold and colors
  • Evyn Kropf
Join the Special Collections Research Center in Hatcher next Tuesday (11 October) at 4 pm for our second After Hours open house of the term exploring the Arabic devotional compendium Dalāʼil al-khayrāt!
  • Evyn Kropf
We are excited to continue our After Hours open houses this semester, online and in person! Join us on the second Tuesday of each month at 4 pm for an encounter with our collections.
view of a tre lune (three crescents) watermark in a paper folio with arabic manuscript text and illumination
  • Evyn Kropf
Newly featured on the Islamic Manuscript Studies research guide --- a selection of resources for the study of watermarks, especially useful for Islamic manuscript cultural contexts. A selection of these resources was first published 5 September 2012 on a retired blog platform and subsequently enhanced and updated.