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Libraries and Museums (2) Creating a Great Museum: Early Collectors and The British Museum  From: The British Museum In this seminar, Marjorie Caygill, historian for The British Museum, introduces us to some of the great British collectors of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, whose appetites for acquisition have been of great benefit to the viewing public ever since. Rather than a definitive study of English collecting, or a complete list of collectors whose donations have enriched The British Museum, this seminar provides interesting vignettes on the lives of several collectors, and attempts to address the question, 'What is a collector?' What emerges is also a portrait of collecting itself--its passions and eccentricities--as well as the diminishing opportunities in our day for vast accumulation of materials by a single individual. The Lindisfarne Gospels From: The British Library Michelle Brown introduces the Gospels and the context of its creation, in honour of St Cuthbert, in the world of early Christianity in Britain. She considers the making of the Gospels and reveals her recent research into both the dating of the manuscript and the ways in which it was created. She explains how such a book would have been used and by whom, and she eloquently reveals the meanings and mysteries of one specific opening in the book. | |||||||||||||||
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