Rare Book School Lectures

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.