Paper Session 5: Degradation, Loss, Recovery & Fragmentation

Session Organizer: Jane Raisch (University of York)

Moderator: Arthur Bahr (Associate Professor of Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Niv Allon (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

“Gem wesh (found missing): Representing Ancient Fragmentary Texts and Their Lacunae”

Kristopher Driggers (University of Chicago)

“Manuscript Alteration and Stylistic Evolution: Why Codex Durán Kept its Changes Visible”

Megan Heffernan (DePaul University)

“‘Filthy, Tattered, and Torn’: Disbound Manuscripts and the History of Waste”

Clare Mullaney (University of Pennsylvania)

“Dickinson’s Fragments: Limitation, Constraint, and an Early History of Print Disability”

See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.