PLEASE NOTE: The schedule of institutes listed below is subject to change.
Supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, these summer institutes provide intensive practical training in reading late medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in European vernacular hands: English, French, Italian, and Spanish. The institutes emphasize the skills needed for the accurate reading and transcription of vernacular texts, but attention may also be given to the instruments of research, codicology, analytical bibliography, and textual editing, depending on the expertise of the instructors and the nature of the historical documents under consideration.
The institutes are hosted by the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies, the Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Getty Research Institute, the Huntington Library, and the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin.
Each institute will enroll 15 participants. First consideration will be given to advanced graduate students and junior faculty at U.S. colleges and universities, but applications will also be accepted from advanced graduate students and junior faculty at Canadian institutions, from professional staff of U.S. and Canadian libraries and museums, and from qualified independent scholars. Advanced language skills are required. Applicants selected for admission will receive a stipend to help defray the cost of attending the institute.
The Mellon paleography initiative is headquartered at the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies. For general information about the program, please contact Carla Zecher, Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies, at 312-255-3514 or renaissance@newberry.org. For application forms and more detailed information about individual institutes, please contact the host institutions.
2009
Huntington Library
Mellon Summer Institute in Spanish Paleography
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
skrasnoo@huntington.org
626-405-2192
www.huntington.org
Getty Research Institute
Mellon Summer Institute in Italian Paleography
The Getty Research Institute
1200 Getty Center Drive
Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
griweb@getty.edu
310-440-7424
www.getty.edu/research
2010
Folger Shakespeare Library
Mellon Summer Institute in English Paleography
The Folger Institute
Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
institute@folger.edu
202-675-0333
Newberry Library
Mellon Summer Institute in French Paleography
Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies
60 West Walton Street
Chicago, IL 60610-7324
renaissance@newberry.org
312-255-3514
www.newberry.org
2011
Newberry Library
Mellon Summer Institute in Italian Paleography
Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies
60 West Walton Street
Chicago, IL 60610-7324
renaissance@newberry.org
312-255-3514
www.newberry.org
Harry Ransom Center
Mellon Summer Institute in Spanish Paleography
Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin
21st and Guadalupe
P.O. Box 7219
Austin, TX 78713-7219
hrcweb@hrc.utexas.edu
512-471-8944
www.hrc.utexas.edu
2012
Huntington Library
Mellon Summer Institute in English Paleography
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
skrasnoo@huntington.org
626-405-2192
www.huntington.org
Newberry Library
Mellon Summer Institute in French Paleography
Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies
60 West Walton Street
Chicago, IL 60610-7324
renaissance@newberry.org
312-255-3514
www.newberry.org