BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230819T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230819T170000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146321950 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230820T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230820T170000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146323999 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230822T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230822T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146326048 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230823T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230823T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146328097 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230824T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230824T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146330146 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230825T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230825T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146332195 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230826T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230826T170000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146335268 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230827T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230827T170000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146337317 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230829T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230829T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146339366 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230830T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230830T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146341415 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230831T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230831T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146343464 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230901T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230901T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146345513 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230902T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230902T170000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146347562 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230903T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230903T170000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146349611 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230905T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230905T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146350636 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230906T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230906T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146352685 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230907T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230907T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146354734 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230908T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230908T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146356783 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230909T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230909T170000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146358832 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230910T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230910T170000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146360881 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230912T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230912T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146362930 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230913T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230913T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146364979 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230914T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230914T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146367028 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230915T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230915T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146369077 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230916T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230916T170000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146371126 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230917T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230917T170000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146372151 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230919T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230919T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146374200 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230920T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230920T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146376249 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230921T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230921T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146379322 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230922T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230922T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146381371 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230923T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230923T170000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146383420 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230924T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230924T170000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146385469 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230926T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230926T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146387518 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230927T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230927T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146389567 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230928T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230928T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146391616 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230929T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230929T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146393665 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20230930T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20230930T170000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146395714 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231001T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231001T170000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146398787 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231003T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231003T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146399812 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231004T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231004T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146410053 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231005T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231005T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146413126 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231006T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231006T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146415175 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231007T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231007T170000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146417224 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231008T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231008T170000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146420297 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231010T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231010T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146422346 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231011T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231011T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146424395 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231012T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231012T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146427468 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231013T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231013T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146429517 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231014T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231014T170000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146431566 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231015T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231015T170000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146433615 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231017T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231017T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146435664 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231018T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231018T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146437713 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231019T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231019T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146439762 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231020T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231020T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146441811 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231021T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231021T170000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146443860 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231022T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231022T170000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146445909 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231024T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231024T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146447958 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231025T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231025T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146450007 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231026T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231026T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146452056 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231027T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231027T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146454105 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231028T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231028T170000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146456154 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231029T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231029T170000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146458203 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231031T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231031T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146460252 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231101T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231101T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146462301 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231102T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231102T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146464350 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231103T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231103T150000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146466399 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231104T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231104T170000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146468448 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231105T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231105T180000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146470497 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231107T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231107T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146472546 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231108T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231108T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146474595 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231109T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231109T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146476644 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231110T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031659Z DTSTART:20231110T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146478693 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231111T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231111T180000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146480742 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231112T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231112T180000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146482791 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231114T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231114T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146484840 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231115T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231115T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146486889 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231116T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231116T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146488938 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231117T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231117T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146490987 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231118T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231118T180000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146494060 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231119T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231119T180000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146496109 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231121T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231121T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146498158 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231122T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231122T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146500207 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231123T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231123T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146501232 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231124T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231124T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146503281 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231125T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231125T180000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146505330 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231126T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231126T180000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146507379 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231128T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231128T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146509428 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231129T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231129T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146511477 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231130T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231130T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146513526 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231201T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231201T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146515575 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231202T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231202T180000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146517624 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231203T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231203T180000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146519673 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231205T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231205T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146521722 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231206T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231206T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146524795 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231207T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231207T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146526844 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231208T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231208T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146528893 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231209T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231209T180000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146530942 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231210T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231210T180000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146532991 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231212T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231212T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146535040 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231213T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231213T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146537089 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231214T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231214T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146539138 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231215T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231215T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146541187 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231216T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231216T180000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146543236 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231219T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231219T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146547334 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231220T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231220T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146549383 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231221T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231221T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146550408 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231222T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231222T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146552457 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231223T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231223T180000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146554506 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231224T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231224T180000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146557579 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231226T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231226T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146559628 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231227T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231227T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146560653 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231228T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231228T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146562702 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231229T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231229T160000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146564751 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities,Campus & Community,Study Break DESCRIPTION:Explore the stories behind books published by Europeans between the mid-fifteenth and late-seventeenth centuries\, tracing them from print ing houses into the hands of generations of collectors and bookbinders and\ , ultimately\, modern research libraries like the Ransom Center. Visitors w ill encounter a number of exceptional objects\, including a Don Quixote tha t has been annotated by a class-conscious reader and all three of the Cente r's copies of the Shakespeare First Folio\, which celebrates its 400th anni versary this year. Other notable volumes among the more than 150 on display are a Bible that purportedly traveled to New England on the Mayflower\, a geographical encyclopedia in Greek that made its way from the press of Aldu s Manutius in Venice into the Islamic world\, a group of playbooks implicat ed in a series of high-profile thefts\, and a sixteenth-century book that a Harvard undergraduate started to use as his personal diary in the late 196 0s.\n\nDrawn almost exclusively from the Center's own collections\, objects in the exhibition testify to the value of treating early books as historic al artifacts\, of moving beyond their printed content to evidence of how th ey were originally made\, who owned them\, where they’ve traveled\, and how they’ve been read\, used\, abused\, and altered over the centuries. Lookin g carefully at particular copies of the books that survive offers glimpses into the lives of people who have come before us\, glimpses that can help u s develop new narratives about the past and better understand our own value s today. DTEND:20231230T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T031700Z DTSTART:20231230T180000Z GEO:30.284115;-97.741089 LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center (HRC) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Long Lives of Very Old Books UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43713146566800 URL:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_long_lives_of_very_old_books END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR