Thirty-Fourth Annual
Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies
12–13 October 2007

FRIDAY, 12 OCTOBER 2007
Anheuser-Busch Auditorium, Cook Hall


REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST • 8:00 AM
Anheuser-Busch Auditorium 


OPENING REMARKS • 8:50 AM


SESSION I • 9:00 AM

Gothic English Manuscripts
Susan L'Engle (Saint Louis University), Organizer

Stella Panayotova (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)

       The Macclesfield Psalter

Michael Michael (Christie’s Education, London)

       The Stylistic Context of the Luttrell Psalter

Kathryn Ann Smith (New York University)

       City and Court: The Origins and Owner of the Taymouth Hours (London, BL Yates Thompson MS 13) 


MORNING BREAK • 10:30 AM


SESSION II • 11:00 AM

Secular English Manuscripts
M. Teresa Tavormina (Michigan State University), Organizer
 
Julia Marvin (University of Notre Dame)        

       The Manuscripts of the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut Chronicle: An Introduction

Thomas H. Ohlgren (Purdue University)

        Manuscript Contexts of the Earliest Robin Hood Poems

M. Teresa Tavormina (Michigan State University)

       Medieval Medicine in Microcosm: Manuscript Settings of Middle English Uroscopies 


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


SESSION III • 2:00 PM

Who, Where and Why: Some Iconographical Issues to Celebrate Ninety Years of the Index of Christian Art
Colum Hourihane (Index of Christian Art, Princeton University), Organizer
Sponsored by the Index of Christian Art, Princeton University

Judith Golden (Index of Christian Art, Princeton University)

        Who: Men of Interest. The Visitation Explored

Libby Escobedo Karlinger (Aurora University)

        Where: Talking Spaces. Hierarchy in the Porter Hours (Morgan M.105)

Adelaide Bennett (Index of Christian Art, Princeton University)

        Why: The Emphasis on Judas’ Notoriety Pictured in a Thirteenth-Century Psalter-Hours


AFTERNOON BREAK • 3:30 PM

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

NIGEL MORGAN
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Winchester, Canterbury, and Sigena: The Problem of the Last Copy of the Utrecht Psalter

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, 13 OCTOBER 2007
Anheuser-Busch Auditorium, Cook Hall


BREAKFAST• 8:30 AM

Anheuser-Busch Auditorium


SESSION IV • 9:00 A M

Manuscripts and their Makers, before and beyond Paris
Mary B. Shepard (International Center of Medieval Art), Organizer
Sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art

Lawrence Nees (University of Delaware)

        Manuscripts and their Makers in the Early Medieval Period

Gerald Guest (John Carroll University)

        Illuminated Manuscripts in Northern Europe, 1200 to 1400: Thinking Production

Rebecca Corrie (Bates College)

        The Conradin Bible and other Projects: Making Books at Naples between Hohenstaufen and Angevin 


MORNING BREAK • 10:30 AM
 

SESSION V • 11:00 AM

Writing the Words in Italy, 10th to 15th Century
Consuelo Dutschke (Columbia University), Organizer
Sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America

Michael W. Heil (Columbia University)

        Survey of Early Placita in Italian Archives

Irene Ceccherini (Università degli Studi di Firenze)

        Merchants and Notaries: Stylistic Movements in Italian Cursive Scripts

Xavier van Binnebeke (Bodleian Library, Oxford)

        Comperta in calce: The Archive of Scientific Working Papers of Albinia C. de la Mare and the Second Edition of her “New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence” 


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


SESSION VI • 2:00 PM

Finding, Annotating, and Reading the Texts on Papyrus
Maryline Parca (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Organizer

Stephen Bay (Brigham Young University)

       Reading Invisible Ink: The Application of Multi-Spectral Imaging to Papyrus Manuscripts

Kathleen McNamee (Wayne State University)

       Before Scholia

David Martinez (University of Chicago)

       Some Papyrological Perspectives on Early Christianity


AFTERNOON BREAK • 3:30 PM


SESSION VII • 4:00 PM

Italian Sixteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts
Maria Saffiotti Dale (Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin), Organizer

Brian A. Curran (Pennsylvania State University)

        The Bull, the Column, the Scepter, and the Crown: Hieroglyphs of Nobility in the Missal of Cardinal Pompeo Colonna

Elena Calvillo (University of Richmond)

       The Farnese Hours and Roman Breviary Reform

Helena K. Szépe (University of South Florida)

        Venetian Manuscript Painting in the Era of Print


CLOSING REMARKS • 5:30 PM