Sixteenth Annual
Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies
(13-14 October 1989)

Friday, 13 October 1989
Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library

     
8:00 am - Registration, Vatican Film Library
     
9:00 am - Suzanne Wilson (Washington University): The Perlesvaus and the Fourth Lateran Council: A Reconsideration of Composition and Influence
9:20 am - George R. Keiser (Kansas State University): The Life and Social Milieu of the Scribe of the Wagstaff Miscellany (Yale University Library, MS 163)
9:40 am - Carter Revard (Washington University): The Scandalous Occasions of British Library, MS Harley 2253
10:00 am - Discussion
     
10:20 am - Coffee Break
     
10:40 am - Beverly Boyd (University of Kansas): The Infamous b-text of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
11:00 am - W. Nicholas Knight (University of Missouri, Rolla): Shakespeare's Last Poem
11:20 am -  Joseph P. Tabbi (University of Toronto): Authorial Revision and the Problem of "Intentionality" in Norman Mailer's The Deer Park
11:40 am - Discussion
     
12:00 pm - Luncheon, Knights Room
     
1:00 pm - Barbara Watts (Florida International University): Botticelli's Manuscript of Dante's Commedia for Lorenzo di Pier Francesco de' Medici: Poetic Structure and Manuscript Design (Cod. Vaticanus Reginensis latinus 1896A; Berlin, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS Hamilton 201; etc.)
1:20 pm - Patricia D. Davis (University of Arizona): The Zodiac Man: From Babylon to Oxford
1:40 pm - Elizabeth O'Connor (City University of New York): The Illustrations Accompanying the Revised Aratus Latinus
2:00 pm - Discussion
     
2:20 pm - Coffee Break
     
2:40 pm - Philip E. Webber (Central College, Pella): What Manuscript Catalogues Can and Should Be: Points from the Henry E. Huntington Library Guide
3:00 pm - Ronald J. Zawilla, O.P. (Aquinas Institute of Theology, St. Louis): The Leonine Edition of the Liturgy of Corpus Christi
3:20 pm - Gordon A. Wilson (Xavier University of Louisiana): Additional Pecia Indications in Henry of Ghent's Summa
3:40 pm - Charles J. Ermatinger (Saint Louis University): Excerpts from Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum historiale, in Codex Vaticanus Barberinianus latinus 2699
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, 14 October 1989
Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library

     
9:00 am - Elizabeth Leesti (University of Toronto): A Portrait of Saint Sebald of Nuremberg by Simon Bening (Montréal, Musée des beaux-arts)
9:20 am - Gretel Chapman (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale): The Iconography of the Legend of Saint Gregory the Great and the Dove in a Romanesque Manuscript from Liège (Brussels, Bibliothèque royale, Ms. 9916-9917)
9:40 am - Antha Cotten-Spreckelmeyer (University of Kansas): Illustrator as Commentator in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 11
10:00 am - Discussion
     
10:20 am - Coffee Break
     
10:40 am - Elwood E. Mather, III (Maywood, CA): Inspired Doctrine: A High View of Teaching in the Early Oxford Community?  (Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 439 [437], II)
11:00 am - Betty J. Davis (City University of New York): A Mutilated Manuscript of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Nouvelles acquisitions françaises 22018)
11:20 am - James Grier (Queen's University): Lachmann, Bédier, and the Bipartite Stemma: Towards a Responsible Application of the Common-Error Method
11:40 am - Discussion
     
12:00 pm - Luncheon, Knights Room
     
1:00 pm - Joseph R. Berrigan (University of Georgia): The Notule auree of Boncompagno da Signa (Rome, Biblioteca Vallicelliana, cod. C 40)
1:20 pm - Carl P.E. Springer (Illinois State University, Normal): A New Critical Edition of Sedulius: Prolegomena
1:40 pm - Stephen Schierling (Louisiana State University): Resolving Some Differences between Kurfess and Pabón in the Text of Sallust, Bellum Jugurthinum
2:00 pm - Discussion
     
2:20 pm - Coffee Break
     
3:00 pm - Stephen Spector (State University of New York, Stony Brook): A Knyth Ther Was: Fifteenth-Century Spelling Changes as See in the N-Town Cycle of Mystery Plays (London, British Library, MS Cotton Vespasian D viii)
3:20 pm - James Ross Sweeney (Pennsylvania State University): Scribes and Proctors in Thirteenth-Century Papal Correspondence in the Hungarian National Archives
3:40 pm - János Bak (University of British Columbia): The Manuscript Tradition of Hungarian Royal Decreta of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
4:00 pm - Discussion