Guest Editor’s Note

Abstract

As guest editor, I am delighted to introduce this special issue of RBM—a project that came to me after organizing the 54th Annual Preconference of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, “O Rare! Performance in Special Collections.” Words cannot express my debt and gratitude to the entire rare book and manuscript community in helping find superb presenters for the conference who distilled their ideas into writing. I hope that these written traces on paper continue to bring new thought to bear on the ideas presented and illuminate important issues for future thinkers.

Where De Rerum Natura reads “propterea quid . . .