Title

Our Rare Books, Our SMC: An Exhibit of Items Held at Saint Mary's College

Description

In the spring of 2024, a group of fourteen students enrolled in ENLT 265 (Digital Humanities Project Lab: From Medieval Manuscripts to Digital Texts) and collaborated to produce this exhibit of items held in the Rare Book Room at Saint Mary's College. Throughout the course, the Rare Book Room served as our laboratory, with students learning about the development of text technologies from cuneiform tablets and medieval manuscripts to early print and nineteenth century art house productions. An introductory project asked students to recreate medieval manuscript pages with parchment and quill pens and to consider the significance of material form to our understanding of a text's meaning. Our attention then turned to thinking about how that materiality might be translated into digital contexts, and how we could raise attention on campus about the rich collection of rare books held in the Cushwa-Leighton Library.

Link to Project Website

list of authors

Dr. Sarah Noonan (Program Coordinator)

Mia Belcastro

Laynie Cheek

Emma Feller

Theresa Hayes,

Abigail Kawalec

Marykate Miller

Ella Novak

Trudi L. Patterson

Rachel Rowe

Stephanie Rowe

Brittney Sanders

Mary Sutherland

Amaya Vega-Fernandez

Clara Venia