Thirty-Fifth Annual
Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies
17–18 October 2008

FRIDAY, 17 OCTOBER 2008
Père Marquette Gallery, DuBourg Hall, 2nd flr.


REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST • 8:00 AM


OPENING REMARKS • 8:50 AM


SESSION I • 9:00 AM

Maps and Diagrams of the Holy Land in Manuscripts: Graphic Presentations of Sacred Space
Organizer: Evelyn Edson (Piedmont Virginia Community College)

Explanatory Drawing in Medieval Exegesis: Temple Plans (Ezekiel 45-47) and the Map of Canaan (Ezekiel 48)
       Catherine Delano-Smith (University of London)

St. Omer, the "Liber Floridus," and the Origin of the Circular Map of Jerusalem
       Hanna Vorholt (University of London)

A Modern Map of the Holy Land? The Inclusion of a Map from 1320 in a Ptolemy Atlas in the Late Fifteenth Century
       Evelyn Edson (Piedmont Virginia Community College)


MORNING BREAK • 10:30 AM


SESSION II • 11:00 AM

Glossing across the Medieval School Curriculum
Organizer: Frank T. Coulson (The Ohio State University)

From Glosses to Text: A Logical Step
       Anna Grotans (The Ohio State University)

Glossing the "Metamorphoses" in Medieval France
       Frank T. Coulson (The Ohio State University)

Format as Function: The Italian Commentaries on the "Poetria nova" of Geoffrey of Vinsauf
       Marjorie Curry Woods (American Academy in Rome / The University of Texas, Austin)


LUNCHEON • 12:30 PM

Grand Hall, DuBourg Hall, 4th flr.


SESSION III • 1:45 PM

Paleography and Manuscripts of the Early Middle Ages
Organizer: Gregory A. Pass (Saint Louis University)
Sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America

A Neapolitan Hagiographical Manuscript in Beneventan: Dating Corsiniana 777 and Its Palaeographical Context
        Francis Newton (Duke University)

A Fragment from Desiderian Montecassino Unearthed: BAV Vat. lat. 10644, ff. 28r-31v
        Andrew Irving (University of Notre Dame)

The Dated Manuscripts in E.A. Lowe's "Codices Latini Antiquiores"
        James John (Cornell University)

A Problem with Colophons and Palimpsests in Bobbio Manuscripts: Re-Dating Ambr. S 45 sup. to the Late Seventh Century
       Kevanne Kirkwood (University of Pennsylvania)


AFTERNOON BREAK • 3:30 PM


LOWRIE J. DALY, SJ, LECTURE ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES • 4:00 PM

VIRGINIA BROWN
Center for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

How to Establish a Scriptorium: The Case of San Vincenzo al Volturno

Sponsored in association with the Saint Louis University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies


RECEPTION • 5:30–7:00 PM

Samuel E. Cupples House




SATURDAY, 18 OCTOBER 2008
Père Marquette Gallery, DuBourg Hall, 2nd flr.


BREAKFAST • 8:30 AM


SESSION IV • 9:00 AM

Manuscripts and Memory
Organizer: Susan L'Engle (Saint Louis University)

Memory and the Making of Images: A Case of a Legal Manuscript
       Joanna Fronska (Independent Scholar)

Creative Cosmologies in Late-Gothic Bohemia: Illuminated Diagrams and Memory Tools for the Court of Wenceslas IV
       Eric M. Ramirez-Weaver (University of Virginia)

Mnemonic Aspects of Illustration in Later English Manuscripts
       Kathleen L. Scott (Independent Scholar)


MORNING BREAK • 10:30 AM


SESSION V • 11:00 AM

Production and Transmission of Medieval Musical Manuscripts
Organizer: Daniel E. O'Sullivan (University of Mississippi)
Sponsored by the Society for Textual Scholarship

A Brief History of the Staff
       John Haines (University of Toronto)

Thibaut de Champagne and the Question of Attribution: A Re-Examination
       Christopher Callahan (Illinois Wesleyan University)

Medieval Italian Copyists and Occitan Musical Traditions
        H. Wayne Storey (Indiana University, Bloomington)


LUNCHEON • 12:30 PM

Grand Hall, DuBourg Hall, 4th flr.


SESSION VI • 2:00 PM

German Vernacular Manuscripts
Organizer: Henrike Manuwald (J. Paul Getty Museum)

Joseph's Women, a Woman's Joseph
       Alison Beringer (Colgate University)

Where to Place the Images? The Writer as "Concepteur" in Cod. 2841 (Vienna ÖNB)
       Henrike Manuwald (J. Paul Getty Museum)

Gender and Genre in Book Illustration?
       Anne Winston-Allen (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)


AFTERNOON BREAK • 3:30 PM


SESSION VII • 4:00 PM

Otto Ege and the Fortunes of Fragments
Organizer: A.S.G. Edwards (De Montfort University)
Sponsored by the Walter J. Ong, SJ, Center for Language and Culture

Otto Ege: The Collector as Destroyer
       A.S.G. Edwards (De Montfort University)

Otto Ege: Portfolios vs. Fragments
       Barbara Shailor (Yale University)

Reassembling the Leaves: Otto Ege and the Potential of Technology
       Frederick Porcheddu (Denison University)


CLOSING REMARKS • 5:30 PM