‘Remembering Good Friends’

Examining a late Eighteenth-Century Friendship Album

The red leather-bound book with the title ‘Remembering Good Friends’ is somewhat scuffed and has shallow cracks. The dog-eared lower outer corners of some of the pages as well as slight damage to the gilt edges suggest that it was frequently picked up and regularly leafed through. Who used the book? And to what purpose? And what does the information on the binding tell us?

'Increasing Countdown' by Axel Malik

Leading up to the international conference ‘Studying Written Artefacts: Challenges and Perspectives’, Axel Malik, Artist in Residence at CSMC, has launched the ‘Increasing Countdown’. This unique sequence of script-like characters will be extended day by day – for 756 days, until 27 September 2023.