Fifteenth Annual
Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies
(14-15 October 1988)

Friday, 14 October 1988
Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library

     
8:00 am - Registration, Vatican Film Library
     
9:00 am - Marsha L. Dutton (University of Michigan): De institutione inclusarum of Aelred of Rievaulx and the Preface to the Vernon Manuscript (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS English Poetry a.1)
9:20 am - Jon Wilcox (University of Iowa): Re-Forming Books: Some Dismembered Anglo-Saxon Vernacular Manuscripts Associated with Exeter (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MSS 419 and 412; London, British Library, MS Cotton Cleopatra B.xiii; London, Lambeth Palace, MS 489)
9:40 am - Joanne S. Norman (Gloucester, ON): A Practical Illustrated Handbook for the Fifteenth-Century Preacher (Vorau, Augustiner Chorherrenstift, MS 130)
10:00 am - Discussion
     
10:20 am - Coffee Break
     
10:40 am - Katherine O'Brien O'Keefe (Texas A&M University): The Writing of Solomon and Saturn I: A Verse Dialogue in Old English (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MSS 41 and 422)
11:00 am - William Loerke (Dumbarton Oaks): The Effect of Incipits on Portraits of the Evangelists in Greek Gospel Books
11:20 am -  Chiara Bassi (Dickinson College): Iconic Text and Literary Text in the Veronese Riddle (Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare, MS LXXXIX)
11:40 am - Discussion
     
12:00 pm - Luncheon, Knights Room
     
1:00 pm - Gretel Chapman (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale): A Twelfth-Century Mosan Rendition of the Dialogues of St. Gregory the Great (Brussels, Bibliothèque royale, MS 9916-9917)
1:20 pm - Katherine M. Long (Brown University): Observations on a Crucifixion Miniature from the Eleventh-Century Anglo-Saxon Judith Gospels (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M.709)
1:40 pm - Janet Marquardt-Cherry (Eastern Illinois University): The Depiction of Local Saints Chrysanthus and Daria in the Prüm Troper-Gradual (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Ms. lat. 9448)
2:00 pm - Discussion
     
2:40 pm - Coffee Break
     
3:00 pm - Stephen Schierling (Louisiana State University): The Textual Tradition of a Poem on the Death of Jugurtha Found in Twenty-One Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and Its Potential for Defining Manuscript Relations
3:20 pm - George R. Keiser (Kansas State University): The Spiritual History of Robert Thornton (London, British Library, MS Additional 31042)
3:40 pm - Zbigniew Izydorczyk (University of Winnipeg): The Evangelium Nicodemi and Its Appendices in Medieval Latin Manuscripts
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, 15 October 1988
Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library

     
9:00 am - A. Richard Hartman (Oklahoma State University): The Function of Initials in Some Manuscripts Containing Old French Epic Poems
9:20 am - Betty J. Davis (City University of New York): Manuscript Titles for Marguerite of Navarre's Heptaméron (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, MSS fonds français 1511, 1512, 1513, 1514, 1520, 1524; Orléans, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 467; Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Cod. Reg. lat. 929)
9:40 am - Carl E. Quesnell (Iowa State University): Observations on Two Accounts of the Life of Catherine of Alexandria Preserved in an Anonymous Latin Text and an Old French Version of Clemence of Barking
10:00 am - Discussion
     
10:20 am - Coffee Break
     
10:40 am - Alain Arnould (Cambridge University, Wolfson College): On the Fringes of the So-Called Ghent-Bruges School: Various Manuscripts from the Library of Raphael de Mercatellis
11:00 am - Elizabeth R. Schaeffer (Eastern Illinois University): Symbol and Innovation in the Floral Borders of the Hours of Catherine of Cleves
11:20 am - John B. Friedman (University of Illinois): Manuscript Decorators and Artistic Taste in Fifteenth-Century Yorkshire: Part One, Pigments and Borders
11:40 am - Discussion
     
12:00 pm - Luncheon, Knights Room
     
1:00 pm - Marilyn Stone (Kingsborough Community College): A Consideration of the Available Translations of the Nicomachean Ethics as Sources for Las Siete partidas
1:20 pm - James A. Harmon (Northeast Missouri State University): Iconography and Layout of the Adoration of the Lamb Page in the Soissons Gospels (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Ms. lat. 8850)
1:40 pm - Marilyn E. Heldman (Washington University): A Gondarine Copy of the Masehafa Tefut (London, British Library, MS Oriental 481)
2:00 pm - Discussion
     
2:20 pm - Coffee Break
     
3:00 pm - Linus J. Thro, S.J. (Saint Louis University): An Anonymous Question on the Connections among the Moral Virtues (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Oriel 33)
3:20 pm - Constance R. Smith (Saint Louis University): An Account of the Diary of Henry Silver, 1857-1870 (London, Punch Archive)
3:40 pm - Joseph R. Berrigan (University of Georgia): Gregorio Correr: Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem (Venice, Biblioteca nazionale Marciana, MS lat. XII 155 [3953])
4:00 pm - Discussion