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Regular Programs in 2011-2012
to be held at the Thurber Center,
91 Jefferson Avenue, Columbus, OH
at 7:30 PM with socializing beginning at 7:00 PM,
unless otherwise noted.

For more information, please call 614-299-9985.

See First Saturday Programs

Thursday, January 12:

Aldus Collects - members share highlights of their collections in this popular fast-paced show-and-tell program.

Thursday, February 9:

Our speaker will be author Carrie Bebris, who is best known for her Mr. & Mrs. Darcy mystery series, which are set in Regency England. Carrie holds a master’s degree in English literature with an emphasis on 19th century authors and has studied Jane Austen on the graduate level. She will share her travels and studies in England, which have been taken to further enhance her work. Her talk is titled, "Following Jane Austen's Literary Footsteps."

Thursday, March 8:

Richard Minsky, book designer and author of The Art of American Book Covers, will give a lecture.

Thursday, April 12:

Kevin Graffagnino presents "Confessions of an Unrepentant Bibliophile."

Thursday, May 10 :

Fred Porcheddu presents "Destroying Medieval Manuscripts for Pleasure and Profit."

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First Saturday Programs

First Saturdays are held at 10:00 AM in Room 105 (Rare Books and Manuscripts Department) at the Thompson Library at Ohio State University.
Please see the OSU web site for directions.

Geoff Smith, who heads Rare Books and Manuscripts at OSU, has been holding these programs in the Rare Books room (and then in their temporary headquarters on Kenny Road) for a number of years. This is much to the delight of Aldus members who are able to experience once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to see, touch, and discuss the many interesting holdings in OSU's collections.

First Saturday programs are a special membership “bonus” for Aldus members. If you have any special collecting interests and would like to have Geoff Smith or Eric Johnson share related items in OSU’s Rare Books and Manuscripts collection at one of these programs, contact them at smith.1@osu.edu or johnson.4156@osu.edu.

Saturday, February 4:

Eric Johnson will share incunabula (15th-century printed books) in OSU's Rare Boos & Manuscripts collection. He will aim to get us beyond the Nuremberg Chronicle (as nice as that book is) to explore some of the less famous--but no less impressive--incunables in the collection, including multiple copies of the 1468 Postillae of Nicholas of Lyra; Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus Miraculorum; Classical works by Ovid, Cicero, Terence, and others; Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend; the Mammotrectus; the minor works of Vincent of Beauvais (in a majorly interesting contemporary package); and more.

Eric will point out some interesting factoids about each book and their authors. RBMS's collection of incunabula is modest, but it's rather impressive in the number of true rarities its collection includes.

And for those of you who simply can't get enough of the "greatest hits" of the collection, Eric will bring out the Nuremberg Chronicle, their Caxton, and the Malleus Maleficarum (even though that appeared in a First Saturday event last summer). Even incunables used more regularly like the sunlight (in measured doses, of course)!

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