Date:
Wednesday, September 25, 2019, 5:15pm
Location:
Room 218, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
“'Many Ciphers, Although But One for Meaning': Lady Mary Wroth’s Many-Sided Monogram"
Vanessa Braganza (Harvard)
This paper proposes a reinterpretation of Mary Wroth’s monogram based on my recent discovery of the second extant volume from Wroth’s personal library: an early seventeenth-century edition of Xenophon’s Cyrvpaedia bearing the same monogram as that found on the Penshurst autograph manuscript of Loves Victorie.
In honor of the recent publication of the English edition of The Ottoman Scientific Heritage by Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, translated by Maryam Patton, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University and the Al-...