History of the Book

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Darnton, Robert. “What Is the History of Books?,” 1982. http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3403038.
2. McKenzie, D. F.“The Book as an Expressive Form.” In Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts. Cambridge University Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483226.004.
3. Adams, Thomas R., and Nicolas Barker. “A New Model for the Study of the Book.” In A Potencie of Life: Books in Society. British Library Studies in the History of the Book 1986-1987. London: British Library, 1993. PDF.
4. Amory, Hugh. “The Trout and The Milk: An Ethnobibliographical Talk.” Harvard Library Bulletin, New Series, 7, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 50–65. http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/2573358?n=19693.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Chartier, Roger. The Order of Books : Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994. PDF.
2. Chartier, Roger. “The Order of Books Revisited.” Modern Intellectual History 4, no. 3 (November 2007): 509–19. http://search.proquest.com/docview/217318314/abstract?accountid=14244.
3. Foucault, Michel. “What Is an Author?” In The Book History Reader, edited by David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery, 2nd ed., 281–91. London ;New York: Routledge, 2006. PDF.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Greetham, D. Textual Scholarship : An Introduction. New York: Garland Pub., 1994.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Carruthers, Mary. The Book of Memory : A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture. ;New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Rouse, Richard H., and Mary A. Rouse. “Statim Invenire: Schools, Preachers, and New Attitudes to the Page.” In Authentic Witnesses : Approaches to Medieval Texts and Manuscripts, 191–220. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991. PDF.
2. Rouse, Richard H., and Mary A. Rouse. “The Development of Research Tools in the Thirteenth Century.” In Authentic Witnesses : Approaches to Medieval Texts and Manuscripts, 221–55. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991. PDF.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Pedersen, Johannes, and Robert | Hillenbrand. The Arabic Book. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984. http://www.ghazali.org/manuscript/research/ArabicBook.pdf.
   Reading tips

   Read pages 1–88.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Al-Qadi, W. “How ‘sacred’ Is the Text of an Arabic Medieval Manuscript? The Complex Choices of the Editor-Scholar.” In Theoretical Approaches to the Transmission and Edition of Oriental Manuscritpts: Proceedings of a Symposium Held in Istanbul, March 28-30, 2001, edited by J. Pfeiffer and M. Kropp, 13–53. Orient-Institut Beirut, 2007. PDF.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Rosenthal, Franz, and ʻAbd al-Bāsiṭ ibn Mūsá ʻAlmawī. The Technique and Approach of Muslim Scholarship. Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1947. PDF.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Eisenstein, Elizabeth. “Defining the Initial Shift: Some Features of Print Culture.” In The Book History Reader, edited by David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery, 2nd ed., 232–54. London ;New York: Routledge, 2006. PDF.
2. Grafton, Anthony T. “The Importance of Being Printed.” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 11, no. 2 (October 1, 1980): 265–86. http://www.jstor.org/stable/203783.
3. Grafton, Anthony. “Introduction.” The American Historical Review 107, no. 1 (February 1, 2002): 84–86. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/532097.
4. Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. “An Unacknowledge Revolution Revisited.” The American Historical Review 107, no. 1 (February 1, 2002): 87–105. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/532098.
5. Johns, Adrian. “How to Acknowledge a Revolution.” The American Historical Review 107, no. 1 (February 1, 2002): 106–25. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/532099.
6. Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. “[How to Acknowledge a Revolution]: Reply.” The American Historical Review 107, no. 1 (February 1, 2002): 126–28. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/532100.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. McKitterick, David. Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450-1830. Cambridge ;New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Mahdi, Muhsin. “From the Manuscript Age to the Age of Printed Books.” In The Book in the Islamic World : The Written Word and Communication in the Middle East, 1–16. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=6304&site=ehost-live&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_1.
2. Bulliet, Richard W. “Medieval Arabic Ṭarsh: A Forgotten Chapter in the History of Printing.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 107, no. 3 (July 1, 1987): 427–38. http://www.jstor.org/stable/603463.
3. Roper, G. “Al-Jawa’ib Press and the Edition and Transmission of Arabic Manuscript Texts in the 19th Century.” In Theoretical Approaches to the Transmission and Edition of Oriental Manuscritpts: Proceedings of a Symposium Held in Istanbul, March 28-30, 2001, edited by J. Pfeiffer and M. Kropp, 237–47. Orient-Institut Beirut, 2007. PDF.
4. Abdulrazak, Fawzi A. “The Kingdom of the Book: The History of Printing as an Agency of Change in Morocco between 1865 and 1912.” Ph.D., Boston University, 1990. http://search.proquest.com/docview/303798542.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Kirschenbaum, Matthew. Mechanisms : New Media and the Forensic Imagination. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Duguid, Paul. “Material Matters: The Past and Futurology of the Book.” In The Book History Reader, edited by David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery, 2nd ed., 494–508. London ;New York: Routledge, 2006. PDF.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Gitelman, Lisa. Paper Knowledge. Toward a Media History of Documents. Duke University Press, 2014. http://read.dukeupress.edu/content/9780822376767/9780822376767.