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Berlin,
Staatsbibliothek,
Ms.Germ.
Fol.8,
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This workshop investigates the uses of
collections of artists’ and artisans’ recipes.
The workshop takes as its starting
point a broad definition of ‚collection of
recipes’, to make it include all writings
that told readers how to do something.
This means that also mathematical
instrument manuals and writings on art
of a more theoretical nature (showing
traces of recipe reading) are among the
Organizers
Sven Dupré
Elaine Leong
Doris Oltrogge
READING HOw-TO
The Uses and Users of Artisanal Recipes
sources which participants investigate.
Chronologically, the workshop focuses
on the period between 1400 and 1700.
Workshop
Max Planck Research Group:
Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe
Participants
Sheila Barker
Montserrat Cabré
Giovanni Fara
Rudolf Gamper
Stephen Johnston
Peter Murray Jones
Daniel Jütte
Deborah Krohn
Ayesha Mukherjee
Hannah Murphy
Sylvie Neven
Pamela H. Smith
Barbara Tramelli
Karin Zimmermann
September 19—20, 2014
Max Planck Institute
for the History of Sci ence
Conference Room, Ground Floor
Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Registration to the conference:
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
+49 (0)30 22667-284
M a x - P lanck - I nstit u t f ü r W issenschaftsgeschichte
M a x P lanck I nstit u te for the H istor y of S cience
Friday
10:00 – 10:10
I ntrod u ction
Sven Dupré, Elaine Leong, Doris Oltrogge
S ession I , C h a i r : S v e n D u p r é
15:00 – 15:50
Hannah Murphy, University of Oxford
P rint e d R e m e d i e s a n d Writt e n
R e cip e s in a S i x t e e nth - C e nt u r y
M e d ic a l Libr a r y
Commentator: Michael Stolberg (Universität
Würzburg)
12:10 – 13:00
Montserrat Cabré, Universidad de Cantabria
T h e Act o f R e a d ing in th e
P r o d u cti o n o f R e cip e C o l l e cti o ns
Commentator: Marieke Hendriksen (MPIWG/
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
10:10 – 11:00
Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University, NY
S i x t e e nth - C e nt u r y A u d i e nc e s f o r
How-To
Commentator: Doris Oltrogge (Fachhochschule Köln)
11:00 – 11:50
Sheila Barker, The Medici Archive Project,
Florence
B y th e Light o f th e F u rn a c e : R e a d ing
a n d Writing Artis a n a l R e cip e s in
G r a n d D u c a l F l o r e nc e
Commentator: Sietske Fransen (MPIWG/The
Warburg Institute, University of London)
11:50 – 12:20 Coffee Break
12:20 – 13:10
Karin Zimmermann, Universitätsbibliothek
Heidelberg
T h e E l e ct o rs P a l a tin e a t H e i d e l b e rg
in th e 1 6 th C e nt u r y : C o l l e ct o rs a n d
C o mpi l o rs o f R e cip e s
Commentator: Marjolijn Bol (MPIWG/University of
Amsterdam)
13:10 – 14:10 Lunch Break
15:50 – 16:20 Coffee Break
S ession I V , C h a i r : E l a i n e L e o n g
16:20 – 17:10
Rudolf Gamper, St. Gallen
S e b a sti a n S ch o bing e r ' s H a n d b o o k o f
A l ch e m y
Commentator: Tillmann Taape (MPIWG/ University of
Cambridge)
17:10 – 18:00
Barbara Tramelli, MPIWG
Artists a s R e a d e rs , Artists a s
Writ e rs : T h e T r a nsmissi o n o f C o l o r
R e cip e s in S i x t e e nth - C e nt u r y I t a l i a n
T r e a tis e s o n Art
Commentator: Yvonne Elet (MPIWG/Vassar College,
NY)
Saturday
14:50 – 15:40
Sylvie Neven, MPIWG/Université de Liège
I n th e M a rgins : R e a d ing a n d
Ann o t a ting Artists ’ R e cip e B o o k s
Commentator: Lea Olsan (University of Louisiana at
Monroe)
15:40 – 16:10 Coffee Break
16:10 – 17:00
Stephen Johnston, University of Oxford
F o l l o w ing th e R u l e s
Commentator: Michael Bycroft (MPIWG)
S ession I I I , C h a i r : D o r i s O l t r o g g e
10:00 – 10:50
Peter Murray Jones, University of Cambridge
S h o w a n d T e l l : S u rg e r y a n d R e cip e s
in M a n u script C irc u l a ti o n
Commentator: Elaine Leong (MPIWG)
S ession I I , C h a i r : M i c h a e l B y c r o f t
14:10 – 15:00
Ayesha Mukherjee, University of Exeter
" I n v u l c a n o v e rit a s " : R e a d ing ,
Writing , a n d P r a ctic e in th e
R e c e ipts o f H u gh P l a tt ( 1 5 5 2 - 1 6 0 8 )
Commentator: Samir Boumediene (MPIWG)
14:00 – 14:50
Giovanni Fara, Florence
B a rb a r o a s a R e a d e r o f D ü r e r
Commentator: Sven Dupré (MPIWG/FU Berlin)
17:00 – 17:50
Daniel Jütte, Harvard University
Transmitting Secrets: Reading Early
Modern Cryptography Manuals
Commentator: Cesare Pastorino (TU Berlin)
17:50 – 18:30
G eneral D isc u ssion
10:50 – 11:40
Deborah Krohn, Bard Graduate Center, NY
P r e cisi o n a n d S p e cificit y a s C l u e s
t o R e a d e rs o f C u l in a r y R e cip e s
Commentator: Anita Guerrini (MPIWG/Oregon State
University)
11:40 – 12:10 Coffee Break