Thirty-First Annual
Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies
15–16 October 2004

FRIDAY, 15 OCTOBER 2004
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

Illumination and Illustration in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Early Printed Books *
Hope Mayo (Houghton Library, Harvard University), Organizer
Sponsored by The Bibliographical Society of America

Lilian Armstrong (Wellesley College)

       The Hand-Illumination of Venetian Law Incunables in the Late Fifteenth Century

Mary Beth Winn (State University of New York, Albany)  

       Paint, Pen, and Print: Royal Presentations in France, 1495-1520

Martha Driver (Pace University)

       Vérard in England: French Influence in English Printed Books


MORNING BREAK • 10:30 AM


SESSION II • 11:00 AM

Manuscript Studies at Nijmegen University
Rob Dückers (Nijmegen University), Organizer

Hanneke van Asperen (Nijmegen University)

       Prayer and Pilgrimage: Traces of Pilgrim's Badges in Books of Prayer

Krijn Pansters (Nijmegen University)

       Vice Virtue, Vice Versa: The Inverted Moral Tradition of David of Augsburg's "Compositione" in Manuscripts of the Low Countries

Rob Dückers (Nijmegen University)

       Manuscript Illumination in the Upper Quarter of the Duchy of Gelders: A First Survey 


LUNCHEON • 12:30 PM


SESSION III • 2:00 PM

Humanists and the Classics
Frank Coulson (Ohio State University), Organizer

Virginia Brown (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies)

       Humanist Commentators on Virgil: Quid novi?

Julia Haig Gaisser (Bryn Mawr College)

       Picturing Apuleius: The Intersection of Word and Image in Some Renaissance Manuscripts

Angela Fritsen (Episcopal School of Dallas)

       The Renaissance Afterlife of Heroides XV: A Humanist Response to Sappho


AFTERNOON BREAK • 3:30 PM


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


PAUL NEEDHAM
Scheide Librarian, Princeton University

Printing Comes to Europe: 1450–1475


RECEPTION • 5:30–7:30 PM
Samuel E. Cupples House




SATURDAY, 16 OCTOBER 2004
Anheuser-Busch Auditorium, Cook Hall


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


SESSION IV • 9:00 AM

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Collecting in the United States
Barbara Shailor (Yale University), Organizer

Dennis J. Dutschke (University of California, Davis)

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

William P. Stoneman (Houghton Library, Harvard University)

       "Dispersed again among Boches, Jews and Transatlantics": Collecting Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in America

Richard A. Linenthal (Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London)

       "The collectors are far more particular than you think": Selling Manuscripts to America


MORNING BREAK • 10:30 AM


SESSION V • 11:00 AM

Cultural Intersections of Script and Print in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England
Charles F. Briggs (Georgia Southern University), Organizer

Robert Costomiris (Georgia Southern University)

       Putting It in Print: Imagining Literary Patronage in Early Sixteenth-Century England

Julia Griffin (Georgia Southern University)

       Ordering the Book: The Interplay of Script and Print in the Poetry of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury

Robert Batchelor (Georgia Southern University)

       The Calligraphic Other: Media for Arabic and Chinese Writing in Seventeenth-Century England


LUNCHEON • 12:30 PM


SESSION VI • 2:00 PM


Manuscript Catalogues and Cataloguing
Melissa Conway (University of California, Riverside, Uncatalogued Manuscript Control Center), Organizer

Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann (Glenmont, NY)

       Creating a New Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts in the Collections of the USA: Challenges and Progress to Date

William Voelkle (Pierpont Morgan Library)

       Manuscript Cataloguing at the Pierpont Morgan Library: Yachting on the Web

Melissa Conway (University of California, Riverside; Uncatalogued Manuscript Control Center) and Lisa Fagin Davis (Uncatalogued Manuscript Control Center)

       Orphans in the Storm: Establishing a Registry of Single Leaves in North American Collections


AFTERNOON BREAK • 3:30 PM


SESSION VII • 4:00 PM

The Book of Hours in Manuscript, in Print, in Prayer
Roger S. Wieck (Pierpont Morgan Library), Organizer

Thomas Kren (J. Paul Getty Museum)

       The Flight of the Phoenix: The Elusive Career of an Innovative Flemish Book Painter

Roger S. Wieck (Pierpont Morgan Library)

       The Printed Book of Hours as First Bestseller

Virginia Reinburg (Boston College)

       A Book for Prayer


CLOSING REMARKS • 5:30 PM


RECEPTION & EXHIBITION • 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Saint Louis Art Museum
Painted Prayers: Books of Hours from the Morgan Library

This reception is made possible by the generous support of:

Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America
*
Saint Louis Art Museum
*
Saint Louis University Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies