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Manuscripta: A Journal for Manuscript Research

Since 1957 the Vatican Film Library has published Manuscripta, a journal devoted to research on medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. The journal features articles and book reviews on topics such as paleography, codicology, illumination, diplomatics, papyrology, epigraphy, library history, reading and literacy, manuscript cataloguing, and textual criticism.

Published twice annually          —          ISSN 0025-2603

Current subscriptions (EUR 60 per year) are available from Brepols Publishers. Back issues (USD 8 per issue) for volumes 1 (1957) through 42 (1998) are available through our editorial offices.

CURRENT ISSUE : 51.1 (2007)

Articles

  • DENNIS DUTSCHKE
    Collecting Italian Manuscripts in the United States: Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Others

  • BART HUELSENBECK
    A Twelfth-Century Manuscript of Lucan's Bellum ciuile (Dukianus latinus 118)

  • NADEZHDA KAVRUS-HOFFMANN
    Catalogue of Greek Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Collections of the United States of America

              Part III: Miscellaneous Small Collections of New York City

  • RICHARD A. LINENTHAL
    "The collectors are far more particular than you think:" Selling Manuscripts to America

Reviews

  • Brown, Michelle P., commentary. The Luttrell Psalter: A Facsimile (Lucy Freeman Sandler)

  • Edwards, A.S.G., introduction. The Life of St. Edmund, King and Martyr: John Lydgate's Illustrated Verse Life Presented to Henry VI. A Facsimile of British Library MS Harley 2278 (Paul Acker)

 

 

SUBMISSIONS

Articles for submission and books for review should be directed to the editor. Please submit articles in both paper and electronic formats. In general matters of style, the journal follows the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. (2003).

STAFF

  • Advisory Board
    Jonathan J.G. Alexander, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
    Frank T. Coulson, The Ohio State University
    Albert Derolez, Universiteit Gent, Vrije Universiteit Brussel / Université Libre de Bruxelles
    Nancy van Deusen, Claremont Graduate University
    Consuelo W. Dutschke, Columbia University
    Philip Gavitt, Saint Louis University
    Charles H. Parker, Saint Louis University
    Lilian M.C. Randall, Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books Emerita, Walters Art Museum
    Albert C. Rotola, Saint Louis University
    Richard H. and Mary A. Rouse, University of California, Los Angeles
    Lucy Freeman Sandler, New York University
    Barbara A. Shailor, Yale University
     

 

Editorial Offices:

  • Manuscripta
    Vatican Film Library
    Pius XII Memorial Library
    Saint Louis University
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    St. Louis, Missouri  63108-3303
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    Tel.  314-977-3090
    Fax  314-977-3108
    Email  vfl@slu.edu

    Secretary: Barbara J. Channell

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