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Beginning in 2003 the Tampa Library worked closely with the Department of Art and Art History at the College of Visual and Performing Arts, at the University of South Florida, to organize courses on exhibition research. The first two exhibitions, Bibles in the Age of Gothic Cathedrals and Books of Hours: Illuminated Devotion,Liturgy and Devotion: Manuscripts from England to Ethiopia, featured liturgical and devotional texts from Europe and non-Western countries, curated by Lesley T. Stone. In 2007, the Library completed its fourth exhibit, featuring incunabula, or books printed before 1501, Beyond the Quill … Printed Books, 1450-1500. were organized by Art History Professor Helena Szepe. Professor Szepe structured her undergraduate and graduate seminars to research the items on display. The  primary and secondary research produced the textual content for the accompanying exhibition catalogue. The Library's third Sacred Leaves exhibit,

This series of exhibitions, featuring illuminated manuscripts and early printed material, has grown to include an annual symposium.  2010 will mark the Library's Fourth Annual Sacred Leaves Graduate Symposium, whose keynote speaker and senior scholar is Dr. David Nirenberg, the Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor - John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, Department of History, and in the College - The University of Chicago.
The Sacred Leaves Graduate Symposium is sponsored by the USF Tampa Library Special and Digital Collections. Graduate students and recent recipients of M.A.s and Ph.Ds are invited to present papers on a specified topic or theme.  The Symposium, which includes a keynote address by a prominent scholar, draws emerging scholars from around the world to USF each winter.

Digitial images of individual leaves (manuscript and printed) used in all the exhibitions are available for research in the  Sacred Leaves Collection.

The items used for the exhibitions and symposiums have been made available by a generous loan from a private collector and scholar.

 

Graphics by Pam Ward-Reagan

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