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Mondays at Beinecke Gallery Talk & Tea

When: Monday, February 10, 2020
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Where:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Librarymap
121 Wall Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Description: A weekly series of insightful, engaging, informal talks on materials from the Beinecke Library’s collections and exhibitions, followed by tea on the mezzanine. NOTE: no talks during or after Yale spring recess.
Spring semester 2020 talks in conjunction with exhibition “Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500-1800” (More information: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/subscribed)
The schedule of talks for this semester includes:
January 27: Jan 27th - "What is our Life?: The Music of Melancholy in Early Modern England"
Music by Orlando Gibbons, Tobias Hume, and Walter Porter
February 3: Nancy Kuhl, curator of poetry, Yale Collection of American literature, and curator of exhibition vitrine, "Catch and Hold", featuring Jen Bervin, Manuscript of Sonnet 35 for Nets (2004).
February 10: Ray Clemens, curator of early books and manuscripts and curator of exhibition vitrine, "What Happens When the English Encounter the Italian Renaissance?", featuring Cicero, De senectute, f. 2r. Copied by Giovanmarco Cinico from Parma. Naples, 1467, and Peter Meghen, scribe. Moral and theological treatises copied for Christopher Urswick, f. 27r. London, ca. 1502.
February 24: Lawrence Manley, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and curator of exhibition vitrine, "lett the knight offer to go forward", featuring A tragedie called Oedipus, f. 19v. England,
ca. 1596–1603.
March 2: "Laughing Matters: The Music of Mirth in Early Modern England"
Music by Thomas Morley, John Dowland, and original student compositions
Open To: General Public
Admission: Free
Topical Areas: Libraries, Museums & Galleries, Arts & Humanities, Talks & Lectures
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