Thirtieth Annual
Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies
10–11 October 2003

FRIDAY, 10 OCTOBER 2003
Anheuser-Busch Auditorium, Cook Hall


REGISTRATION &MORNING COFFEE • 8:00 AM
Anheuser-Busch Auditorium Lobby


OPENING REMARKS • 8:45 AM

SESSION I • 9:00 AM

Issues of Illustration in Manuscripts of Medieval Romance
Meradith McMunn (Rhode Island College), Organizer

Meradith McMunn (Rhode Island College)

       The Game of Chess: A Multivalent Miniature in a Fragment of the Roman de la Rose

Elizabeth Morrison (J. Paul Getty Museum)  

       The Trojan Family Tree in France: The Unusual Full-Page Illuminations of an Early Copy of the Roman de Troie

Alison Stones (University of Pittsburgh)

       Issues of Placing and Treatment of Illustrations in the Lancelot-Grail: A Comparative Study


MORNING BREAK • 10:30 AM


SESSION II • 11:00 AM

The Face of the Page: First Impressions, Graphic Habits, and Manuscript Design
Nancy van Deusen (Claremont Graduate University), Organizer

George H. Brown (Stanford University)

       The Layout of Early Manuscripts of Bede

Marcia L. Colish (Yale University)

       The Pseudo-Peter of Poitiers Gloss: First Soundings

Nancy van Deusen (Claremont Graduate University)

       The Face of the Page and the Imagination of Space


LUNCHEON • 12:30 PM
Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library


SESSION III • 2:00 PM

Islamic Manuscripts
Sylvie L. Merian (The Pierpont Morgan Library), Organizer

Jonathan Bloom (Boston College)

       Paper and Islamic Manuscripts

Sheila Blair (Boston College)

       The Manuscripts of Rashid al-Din

Marianna Shreve Simpson (Baltimore, Md.)

       In the Beginning … : Frontispieces and Front Matter in Early Persian Illustrated Manuscripts


AFTERNOON BREAK • 3:30 PM


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

LUCY FREEMAN SANDLER
New York University

The Role of Illustrations in Medieval Encyclopedias


RECEPTION • 5:30–7:30 PM
Cupples House




SATURDAY, 11 OCTOBER 2003
Anheuser-Busch Auditorium, Cook Hall


MORNING COFFEE • 8:30 AM
Anheuser-Busch Auditorium Lobby

SESSION IV • 9:00 AM


Aspects of French Vernacular Manuscript Production
Richard H. Rouse (University of California, Los Angeles), Organizer

Keith Busby (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

       Language, Genre, and Manuscript Production: The Case of Johannes Jacobi

Mary Rouse (University of California, Los Angeles)

       The Role/Roll of Rubrics in the Commercial Production of Vernacular Texts in Paris, 1318-1418

Christine Reno (Vassar College)

       Preparing Multiple Copies in Short Order: The Evidence from the Surviving Original Manuscripts of Christine de Pizan's "Livre des fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V"


MORNING BREAK • 10:30 AM


LOWRIE J. DALY,  SJ, LECTURE ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES II • 11:00 AM

JONATHAN J.G. ALEXANDERr
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Portraiture in Italian Renaissance Manuscripts


LUNCHEON • 12:30 PM
Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library


SESSION V • 2:00 PM

Greek Manuscripts
Donald F. Jackson (University of Iowa), Organizer

Donald F. Jackson (University of Iowa)

       Greek Manuscripts in the Vatican Library in 1518

Mark L. Sosower (North Carolina State University)

       Compiling an Album of Watermarks of Sixteenth-Century Greek Manuscripts

Ernst Gamillscheg (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek)

       The Repertorium of Greek Copyists: A Mine of Information for Cultural History of the Middle Ages


AFTERNOON BREAK • 3:30 PM


SESSION VI • 4:00 PM

Images, Rhetoric, and Narrative
Sherry C.M. Lindquist (St. Louis, Mo.), Organizer



Anna Russakoff (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)

       The Role of the Image in Illustrated Manuscripts of "Les Miracles de Notre-Dame" by Gautier de Coinci (ca. 1177‒1236)

Sherry C.M. Lindquist (St. Louis, Mo.)

       The Rhetoric of Silence: Picturing the Book at a Carthusian Charterhouse

Anne D. Hedeman (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

       Visual Rhetoric in Early Fifteenth-Century French Humanist Translation


CLOSING REMARKS • 5:30 PM