Fourteenth Annual
Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies
(16-17 October 1987)

Friday, 16 October 1987

     
8:00 am - Registration, Vatican Film Library
     
Session A Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library
9:00 am - Constantin Fasolt (University of Chicago): A Text at the Crossroads of Law and Politics: William Durant the Younger's Treatise on Councils
9:20 am - Thomas N. Izbicki (Wichita State University): The Diffusion of a Gloss from the Commentary of Guido de Baysio on the Liber sextus
9:40 am - Marilyn Stone (Dominican College): Manuscript 88 of the Real Convento de Predicadores de Valencia: A New Link in the Manuscript Tradition of Las Siete partidas
10:00 am - Discussion
     
10:20 am - Coffee Break
     
10:40 am - Roy Rosenstein (American College, Paris): Medieval Manuscripts and Modern Mouvance
11:00 am - Katherine O'Brien O'Keefe (Texas A&M University): Sectional Divisions in the Vercelli Book (Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare, MS CXVII): Another Look
11:20 am - Discussion
     
11:40 pm - Luncheon
     
1:00 pm - Betty J. Davis (City University of New York): Manuscript Evidence for Names of the Storytellers in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron
1:20 pm - Christine M. Reno (Vassar College): Codicological and Paleographic Peculiarities of Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Ms. fr. 605
1:40 pm - Joseph R. Berrigan (University of Georgia): The Aesopic Fables of Guarino de Verona (Milano, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Cod. R 21)
2:00 pm - Discussion
     
2:20 pm - Coffee Break
     
3:00 pm - Anthony J. Cárdenas (Wichita State University): The Spanish Aesop of 1488 and 1489: Two Textual Traditions or One?
3:20 pm - Frederick M. Morrison (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville): Pero López de Ayala and the Rationale for the Condensation of his Translation of Gregory's Moralia (Madrid, Biblioteca nacional, MS 12720)
3:40 pm - John Dagenais (Northwestern University): A Fifteenth-Century Castilian Teacher's Lecture Notes on the Metamorphoses (Soria, Biblioteca pública, MS 4-H)
4:00 pm - Discussion
     
Session B Lower Level 6, Pius XII Memorial Library
9:00 am - Corine Schleif (Universität Bamberg): Artists and Craftsmen as Donors: On the Function and Meaning of the Illustrations in Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Hs. Msc. patr. 5
9:20 am - Anthony Bevin (Montana State University): New Growth on the Family Tree: A Re-evaluation of Painting at St. Peter's Scriptorium (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MSS M.780, M.781, G.44; München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm. 15713)
9:40 am - Larry M. Ayres (University of California, Santa Barbara): Italian Romanesque Manuscript Illumination: Some Roman Dimensions (Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Archivio di San Pietro, Cod. A.11-12, C.92, A.4-5)
10:00 am - Discussion
     
10:20 am - Coffee Break
     
10:40 am - Dorothy M. Shepard (Bryn Mawr College): Conventional Use of the Prayers and Meditations of Anselm in the Twelfth Century (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. D.2.6, and Admont, Stiftsbibliothek, Hs. 289)
11:00 am - Elizabeth Lipsmeyer (Old Dominion University): The Thirteenth-Century Liber ordinarius of Konrad von Mure
11:20 am - Discussion
     
11:40 am - Luncheon
     
1:00 pm - Marsha L. Dutton (University of Michigan): Rubrics of Evaluation: A Fifteenth-Century Manuscript of Aelred of Rievaulx's De institutione inclusarum (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Lat. Theol. d.27)
1:20 pm - Sarah M. Horrall (University of Ottawa): Pictures and Text in Cursor mundi (London, British Library, MS Cotton Vespasian A iii and MS Add. 31042; Edinburgh, Royal College of Physicians, [s.n.])
1:40 pm - N.C. Christopher Couch (Columbia University): The Illustrations of the Durán and Tovar Manuscripts over the Nature of the Indians (Madrid, Biblioteca nacional, Vitr. 26-11)
2:00 pm - Discussion
     
2:20 pm - Coffee Break
     
3:00 pm - George R. Keiser (Kansas State University): John Lydgate's Lyf of Our Lady in Fifteenth-Century Miscellanies
3:20 pm - Lister M. Matheson (Michigan State University): Hagiography and History: Legends of the Saints in London, Lambeth Palace, MS 84
3:40 pm - Karen Greenspan (Mount Holyoke College): A Fifteenth-Century Popular Guide to Meditation: Magdalena of Freiburg's Erklärung des Vaterunsers (Donaueschingen, Fürstenbergische Hofbibliothek, Hs. 298)
4:00 pm - Discussion
     
5:00 pm - Reception, Cupples House (Adjacent to Pius XII Memorial Library)
     
6:00 pm - Conference Dinner, Cupples House (Adjacent to Pius XII Memorial Library)

 

Saturday, 17 October 1987

Session A Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library
10:00 am - Paul Acker (University of Michigan): The Craft of Nombryng in Columbia University, Plimpton MS 259
10:20 am - Cheryl C. Frasch (Ohio State University): The Notational System of the Scribe of Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Ms. latin 903
10:40 am - Discussion
     
11:00 am - Charles J. Ermatinger (Saint Louis University): Johann von Lichtenberg and His Quodlibet as Enriched by Borrowings from the Oxford Arts Master John Dymsdale (Durham, Cathedral Library, MS C.IV.20; Montpellier, Bibliothèque de l'École de médecine, Ms. H 293; and Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Cod. Vat. lat. 859)
11:20 am - Linus J. Thro, S.J. (Saint Louis University): The Discussion of Master John Dymsdale on the Plurality of Forms in His Commentary on the De anima: A Text Collated from Oxford, Balliol College, MS 311; and Oxford, Oriel College, MS 33
11:40 am - Lowrie J. Daly, S.J. (Saint Louis University): Man as a Political Animal: A Comparison of the Comments of Thomas Aquinas and Walter Burley on this Famous Aristotelian Passage
12:00 pm - Discussion
     
Session B Lower Level 6, Pius XII Memorial Library
10:00 am - Frank T. Coulson (Ohio State University): The Cataloguing of Medieval and Renaissance Commentaries on Ovid: An Interim Report
10:20 am - Thomas Mackay (Brigham Young University): Editing the Commentary on the Apocalypse by Alcuin in Cod. Vat. lat. 651
10:40 am - Discussion
     
11:00 am - W. Nicholas Knight (University of Missouri, Rolla): Theological Changes in Updike's Manuscript A Month of Sundays
11:20 am - John B. Friedman (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): Dies boni et mali, obitus, et contra hec remedium: Remedies for Fortune in Some Fifteenth-Century English Manuscripts
11:40 am - Anthony Vitale (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): A Discussion of the Questions Surrounding the Charters Issued by the Khans and Khanshis of the Golden Horde to the Metropolitans of the Russian Orthodox Church
12:00 pm - Discussion