If Books Could Talk - How did you get to Iowa? [Episode 1] Jimmy Brown 1,946 views

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If a historic book could talk, what would you ask it? In a way, they can talk. The paper, bindings, bookplates, repairs, stains, handwritten notes, stamps and markings all leave traces that give clues to how they were made, where they have been, and can even tell about the lives of the people who have read them. We're finding clues and following up with research to find out more.
Do you come to the same conclusion?
And check out Heather Wacha's in-depth analysis of the manuscripts over on the History Corps site to find out more, or check out the hi-res version of the manuscript to see if there is a clue that we missed.

If Books Could Talk is a collaboration between History Corps, a digital public history project from the History Department at the University of Iowa, and Special Collections and the Rita Benton Music Library from the University of Iowa Libraries.

Full analysis of the manuscript from Heather Wacha can be found on the History Corps site; http://dsph-dev.provost.uiowa.edu/his...

View the entire manuscript in high resolution in the Iowa Digital Library: http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm/ref/...

This video is a first of three for this pilot concept. Once a month we will post a video of this type.

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Image Credits:
[Speculum universale / Radulphus Ardens ; copiado por Frei Johannes Picaut 1450. - 2 vol. (2 colns., 46 l.), enc. : perg., il. color. ; 316x213 mm
http://purl.pt/24610
Public domain

A meeting of doctors at the university of Paris. From the "Chants royaux" manuscript, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universi...
Public domain

Fragment de virtutibus
http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm/ref/...
Public domain

Chezal-Benoît - Abbatiale - Extérieur de la nef http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chezal-B...
Photographer: MOSSOT; CC BY-SA 3.0

Liber chronicarum. [Nuremburg Chronicle]
http://infohawk.uiowa.edu/F/?func=fin...

Charles-Moïse Briquet, Les Filigranes: Dictionnaire historique des marques du papier dès leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600 (Leipzig: Hiersemann, 1923).
http://infohawk.uiowa.edu/F/?func=fin...

Credits:
Hosted by Colleen Theisen and Heather Wacha

Written by Heather Wacha

Edited by Katie Buehner

Background Music:
Composer: Kevin MacLeod
Title: Winner Winner

If Books Could Talk - How did you get to Iowa? [Episode 1]
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