Date/Time
Date(s) - 19 Oct 2016
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Location
Butler Library Room 523
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A lecture by Jeffrey Miller, Assistant Professor of English at Montclair State University. Part of the Book History Colloquium at Columbia.
In 2014 Miller discovered the earliest draft of the King James Bible and in this talk he will explore both the meaning and importance of the designation “draft” as it pertains to the King James Bible’s famously multifaceted composition process. Focusing in particular on the most recent draft of the King James Bible to be unearthed – an early, seemingly first draft of part of the work, uniquely in the hand of one of the King James translators themselves, and standing as now the earliest draft of any portion of the King James translation known to survive – this paper ultimately consider the broader implications, on a theoretical and methodological level, of a revitalized conception of “drafts” for future study of early modern book, intellectual, and literary history. Sponsored by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library and the Medieval & Renaissance Studies Department.
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