From 2015-2019, the Making and Knowing Project held an annual Working Group Meeting. Each meeting corresponds to the yearly theme. Each Working Group focused on different sections of Ms. Fr. 640 manuscript, and included scholars and expert makers whose expertise is directly related to the content of those sections of the manuscript.
Correctly interpreting and translating the manuscript depends on understanding its materials, techniques, and processes, so the participation of the Working Groups’ Expert Makers and scholars ensures that contents of the final digital edition meet the highest standards of accuracy and scholarship.
Working Group members participated (as possible) in the paleography workshops and the laboratory seminars at Columbia through guest lectures and studio visits, and convene annually to review annotations.
Five Working Group Meetings were held:
- Moldmaking and Metalworking Working Group held May 27-30, 2015
- Colormaking Working Group held May 26-28, 2016
- Practical Knowledge: Vernacular Natural History, Practical Perspective, Optics, Mechanics, and Medicine Working Group held May 23-25, 2017
- Ephemeral Art Working Group held May 22-24, 2018
- Printmaking, Inscriptions, Impressions Working Group held May 14-16, 2019
Learn More
- Explore the student and scholar research essays via the digital critical edition, Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France
- Working Group Participants
