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Le 15 avril 2016 aura lieu à Londres (Senate House Library) une journée d'études sur les collections anciennes : "Collectors, Collections and Collecting Conference". Le colloque traite notamment plusieurs collectionneurs importants de manuscrits : Thomas Phillipps, Sidney Cockerell, Alfred Chester Beatty, Henry Yates Thompson, Henry Wellcome, Hans Sloane ...Programme :09:45 - 10:15 Accueil10:15 - 10:30 Introduction10:30 - 11:30 : Plenary lecture Stella Panayotova (The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge): Sydney Cockerell: A Bibliophile Director-Collector11:30 - 11:45 Pause11:45 - 13:00 Boundless Collecting: The Public Fate of the Private Collection Frances Larson: From the Miniature to the Gigantic: Making Sense of Henry Wellcome and his collection Alice Marples: Creating and Keeping a National Treasure: the changing uses of Sloane's collection13:00 - 14:00 Déjeuner14:00 - 15:30 Collecting Quality for Prosperity Anthony James West (IES, SAS):The Shakespeare First Folio: The 'Must Have' Book Laura Cleaver (Trinity College Dublin): Mr and Mrs Alfred Chester Beatty, Mr and Mrs Henry Yates Thompson and Judgments about the Quality of Western Manuscripts, c. 1916-1941 Karen Attar (Senate House Library): Mummifying Collections: An Institutional Overview15:30 - 15:45 Pause15:45 - 17:15 'For what purpose do they spend?' Ruskin and his legacy Stephen Wildman (University of Central Lancaster): A wonderful range of mind: the Ruskin collection Cynthia Johnston (IES, SAS, London) : The Post-Industrial Collector: The books and coins of Robert Edward Hart, rope-maker of Blackburn, Lancashire Danielle Magnusson (Trinity College Dublin): American Industrialist Collectors and Collections17:15 - 18:00 Final Words Toby Burrows (King's College London): Beyond "Vello-mania": a new look at Sir Thomas Phillipps18:00 - 19:00 PotLieu : Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HUPour plus d'informations et inscriptions.