Montag, 16. April 2018, 17:15 - 19:00 iCal

222. Institutsseminar, Christopher de Hamel

Austrian monastic books and their market in Britain and America in the 1930s and 1940s

Schottensaal im Schottenstift
Freyung 6, 1010 Wien

Seminar, Workshop, Kurs


Manuscripts from Austrian monastic libraries arriving in Britain and America in the 1920s and 1930s were rather like refugees, admired for their scholarship and tenacity but not really welcome. They were mostly not to the taste of collectors of that time. They were difficult to sell. They were handled mainly by booksellers who were themselves immigrants, like E. P. Goldschmidt (1887–1954), who had moved from Vienna to Lon-don in 1923. Now, 80 years later, these former refugees among manuscripts have be-come very fashionable indeed and can be shown to have transformed the taste of mod-ern British and American bibliophily.


Veranstalter

Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung


Kontakt

Stefanie Gruber
Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung
27206
stefanie.gruber@univie.ac.at