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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Shamil Jeppie (University of Cape Town): "Book Collecting in Timbuktu."
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SUMMARY:Shamil Jeppie (University of Cape Town): "Book Collecting in Timbuktu."
DESCRIPTION:<p style="margin:0in">	<!--break--><span style="color:black">Sponsor: </span><a data-url="https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/history-book" href="https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/history-book" target="_blank" title="">Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on the History of the Book</a></p><p style="margin:0in">	 </p><p style="margin:0in">	<span style="color:black">This lecture surveys five centuries of collecting in Timbuktu, a town in the interior of West Africa, that has come to symbolize a larger world of learning and book culture in the region. This lecture follows citations in texts written in the town in the 16<sup>th</sup> century, book borrowing and copying, through to a major collector of the early 20<sup>th</sup> century who both attempted to conserve the manuscript book tradition and imported printed books to Timbuktu. </span></p><p style="margin:0in">	 </p>
LOCATION:Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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