Event Description
An anonymous late sixteenth-century French technical manuscript, Ms. Fr. 640 (now held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France), has been the subject of research by the Making and Knowing Project since 2014. This intriguing manuscript provides important insights into the material, technical, and intellectual world of late sixteenth-century Europe, and sheds light on how and why nature was investigated, used in art, and collected and appreciated in early modern Europe. The laboratory reconstruction by the Making and Knowing Project of the technical and artistic “recipes” contained in Ms. Fr. 640 provides further knowledge about the manuscript, as well as of materials and processes, but it also raises a host of questions. The manuscript can be read as part of the digital critical edition Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France.
Event Speaker
Pamela H. Smith, Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia University and Founding Director of the Center for Science and Society
Event Information
Free and open to the public; registration is required. For more information, please visit the event webpage or email [email protected].
Hosted by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Ohio State University.
