University of Sydney Library Lecture Series 2012
“Hands on Manuscripts: An Introduction to the Spanish Liturgical Music Manuscript Collection”, Dr Jane Hardie, University of Sydney

Date: Wednesday, 31 October 2012  
Time: 5.30 to 6.30pm followed by light refreshments
Where: Rare Book Library, Level 1, Fisher Library
Cost: Free event but registration required

Since the Friends of the Library have played an integral part in the building of this collection you are invited to an informal session in which these manuscripts will be introduced. The manuscripts date from the thirteenth to the late eighteenth centuries, with the bulk of them dated from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

You will get an opportunity to take a private guided tour through the collection, to learn a little about them, to touch them and to ask questions about them. You do not need a knowledge of music to appreciate these treasures from a bygone era, but you might be surprised at how much we can learn from them.

These manuscripts are currently being studied by an international group of scholars led by Dr Jane Morlet Hardie at the Medieval and Early Modern Centre.

Numbers are limited, as this session will take place in the Rare Book Room, so please book early.

RSVP: by Friday 26 October
Email: library.rsvp@sydney.edu.au or phone 9114 0866.
Web: http://sydney.edu.au/library/about/friends/index.html