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"An Exploration of the Secrets of Early Modern Paper" — Lecture Dr. Joran Proot (Cultura Fonds and University of Antwerp) Thursday, April 9, 4:00pm-6:00pm, Jones Room, Woodruff Library Free and open to the public; registration is required. Join us for a lecture with guest historian Dr. Joran Proot! Dr. Proot is a distinguished historian of early modern books from the Cultura Fonds and the University of Antwerp. During the lecture, Dr. Proot will discuss the study of handmade paper in the handpress period, 15th–17th centuries. In the transition of handwritten books to books printed with moveable type on common presses in the middle of the fifteenth century, the most frequently used substrate – i.e., handmade paper – played, in many ways, an important role. It is generally known that in the beginning paper sheets used for printed books were rather thick, and that paper became thinner over time. This process has a number of important implications for the book, which is in many regards a d