Library Company of Philadelphia Blog: Early Book Structures and the Nag Hammadi Codices

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Early Book Structures and the Nag Hammadi Codices

Friday, October 29

Program at 6:00 P.M.

Julia Miller, former senior conservator on the staff of the University of Michigan conservation lab, will discuss the Nag Hammadi Codices. These are the manuscripts discovered in Egypt in 1945 that date from the third and fourth centuries AD and contain numerous early Christian Gnostic texts. Ms. Miller will focus on these manuscripts along with related discoveries in terms of bookbinding history and materials.

This event will be held at 1314 Locust St. in Philadelphia.

Click here to RSVP or call 215.546.3181.

The Library Company of Philadelphia

The Library Company of Philadelphia is an independent research library specializing in American history and culture from the 17th through the 19th centuries. Open to the public free of charge, the Library Company houses an extensive collection of rare books, manuscripts, broadsides, ephemera, prints, photographs, and works of art. Founded in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin, the Library Company is America's oldest cultural institution and served as the Library of Congress from the Revolutionary War to 1800. The Library Company was the largest public library in America until the Civil War.

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