Fifth Annual
Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies
(12-14 October 1978)


Thursday, 12 October 1978

     
1:00 pm - Registration, Cupples House
     
Session A Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library
2:00 pm - Nicole A. Marzac (Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes, Paris): A Fifteenth-Century French "Passion": Research in Textual Aspects
2:20 pm - Rosalie Vermette (Indiana University): A New Fragment of the Propheties de Merlin
2:40 pm - Discussion
     
3:00 pm - Coffee Break
     
3:30 pm - Richard M. Krill (University of Toledo): The Third Vatican Mythographer Alberic
3:50 pm - Charles R. Shrader (U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth): Flores de re militari: Vegetius Manuscripts in the Vatican Library
4:10 pm -  Richard Kay (University of Kansas): The Kansas Pontifical: Another Witness to the Roman Pontifical of the Twelfth Century
4:30 pm - Discussion
     
Session B Cupples House (Adjacent to Pius XII Memorial Library)
2:00 pm - Lys Ann Taylor Shore (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto): Medieval Classification of Comets, as Shown in the Text and Illustrations of Three Old French Comet Treatises (cod. Vat. Reg. lat. 1330)
2:20 pm - Robert G. Calkins (Cornell University): Traditions of Dutch Border Decoration and Their Relevance in Detecting Workshop Procedures
2:40 pm - Discussion
     
3:00 pm - Coffee Break
     
3:30 pm - Sr. Mary Clemente Davlin (Rosary College): A Male Natura-Figure in cod. Palat. lat. 629?
3:50 pm - Paul Saenger (Northwestern University Library): Silent Reading: Its Impact on Fourteenth-Century Script and Society
4:10 pm -  A. L. Gabriel (University of Notre Dame): An Unknown Illuminated Page from the Medieval Statutes of the Order of Saint Michael in the Ambrosiana Library, Milan
4:30 pm - Discussion
     

Friday, 13 October 1978

    
Session A Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library
9:00 am - Stephen F. Brown (University of the South, Sewanee): The Epilogue of Olivi's Quaestiones logicales: A Spiritualist's Justification for the Study of Aristotle's Logic
9:20 am - William Dunphy (St. Michael's College, University of Toronto): Siger of Brabant's Lectures on the Metaphysics in the Surviving MSS
9:40 am - Discussion
     
10:00 am - Paul F. Gehl (American Academy in Rome): Problems in Describing Grammaticalia for Manuscript Catalogues
10:20 am - Carter Revard (Washington University): Bodleian MS Digby 86: Genre and Provenance
10:40 am - Discussion
     
11:00 am - Coffee Break
     
Session B Cupples House (Adjacent to Pius XII Memorial Library)
9:00 am - W. Nicholas Knight (University of Missouri, Rolla): Paleography and the Folger Shakespeare Signature
9:20 am - Lilian M. C. Randall (Walters Art Gallery): A 15th-Century Hours in a 19th-Century Imitation
9:40 am - Discussion
     
10:00 am - Grace L. Houghton (State University of New York, Binghamton): Cassiodorus and the Utrecht Psalter Illustrations
10:20 am - Annemarie Mahler (University of Cincinnati): Medieval Image Style and St. Augustine's Theory of Knowledge and Vision
10:40 am - Discussion
     
11:00 am - Coffee Break
     
General Session, Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library
11:20 am - Chauncey E. Finch (Saint Louis University): Identifying Research Possibilities in an Incompletely Catalogued Manuscript Collection
     
12:00 pm - Luncheon
     
Session A Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library
1:00 pm - Lister M. Matheson (University of Michigan): A Classification of the Middle English Brut Manuscripts
1:20 pm - Paul E. Szarmach (State University of New York, Binghamton): Another Old English Translation of Gregory the Great's Dialogues?
1:40 pm - Discussion
     
2:00 pm - Yvon Gélinas (Bibliothèque, Institut d'Études Médiévales, Montréal): Joachim of Fiore, Expositio in Apocalypsim: Approach to the Study of the Textual Transmission
2:20 pm - Robert G. Black (Beloit College): Derivational Relationships in the Spanish Cancioneros, Fifteenth-Century Poetic Codices
2:40 pm - Discussion
     
3:00 pm - Coffee Break
     
3:30 pm - Donald Yates (Saint Louis University): The Composition of a 14th-Century Spanish Cathedral Library: Tarazona, Archivo de la Catedral
3:50 pm - Thomas M. Izbicki (University of California, Berkeley): The Manuscript Library of Cardinal Johannes de Turrecremata
4:10 pm - Marcella Grendler (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): Greek Manuscripts in Padua: the Library of Gian Vincenzo Pinelli (1535-1601)
4:30 pm - Discussion
     
Session B Cupples House (Adjacent to Pius XII Memorial Library)
1:00 pm - Thomas W. Puryear (Southeastern Massachusetts University): Ricketts 136 and the Master W-with-the-Key
1:20 pm - Judith Oliver (Walters Art Gallery): Reconstruction of a Thirteenth-Century Psalter: British Library Add. 28784 A and B
1:40 pm - Discussion
     
2:00 pm - Valerie M. Lagorio (University of Iowa): Humanistic Poems in Vatican Manuscripts
2:20 pm - Joseph R. Berrigan (The University of Georgia): The Latin Fables of Ognibene da Lonigo
2:40 pm - Discussion
     
3:00 pm - Coffee Break
     
3:30 pm - Jeanne Krochalis (University of Pennsylvania): The Circle of Sins: Medieval Septenaria
3:50 pm - Thomas H. Bestul (University of Nebraska): The Book of Cerne and the English Devotional Tradition: A Survey of Pre-Conquest Manuscripts Containing Devotional Materials
4:10 pm - Thomas J. A. Heffernan (The University of Tennessee): Dating the Manuscripts of the Northern Homily Cycle
4:30 pm - Discussion
     
6:00 pm - Conference Dinner, Cupples House (Adjacent to Pius XII Memorial Library)
Guest Speakers 

Anthony Edwards, Valerie M. Lagorio, Robert E. Lewis

Index of Middle English Prose: A Report

  
      

Saturday, 14 October 1978

     
Session A Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library
9:00 am - Despina Stratoudaki White (Middle Georgia College): Contra Manichaeós: A Question of Authorship
9:20 am - Anthony J. Cárdenas (Wichita State University): The Original MS of the Libros del saber de astronomia
9:40 am - Charles J. Ermatinger (Saint Louis University): John Tytynsale as the Pseudo-Scotus of the Questions on Metaphysics X and XII
10:00 am - Discussion
     
Session B Cupples House (Adjacent to Pius XII Memorial Library)
9:00 am - Eleanor Scheifele (Saint Louis University): Patronage and Iconography of the Vivian Bible (Paris, Bibl. nat., Ms. latin 1)
9:20 am - Marilyn E. Heldman (Washington University): A Pre-Iconoclastic Gospel Frontispiece in Ethiopia
9:40 am - Discussion