Seventeenth Annual
Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies
(12-13 October 1990)

Friday, 12 October 1990
Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library

     
8:00 am - Registration, Vatican Film Library
     
9:00 am - Anthony J. Cárdenas (University of New Mexico): If Not Alfonso X, Then Who?  In Search of a Sponsor for a Copy of the Libro de las animalias que caçan
9:20 am - Lowrie J. Daly, S.J. (Saint Louis University): Medieval Commentaries on the Politics of Aristotle: Some Examples
9:40 am - Joseph R. Berrigan (University of Georgia): The Liber satyrarum of Gregorio Correr
10:00 am - Discussion
     
10:20 am - Coffee Break
     
10:40 am - Charles J. Zabrowski (Gettysburg College): Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus, in Cod. Vat. Reg. gr. 92: Gemellus or Apograph of Florence, Laurentianus 31.38
11:00 am - Stephen Schierling (Louisiana State University): Cod. Vaticanus latinus 3325 Re-examined for the Text of Sallust
11:20 am -  Maureen B. Ryan (Ohio State University): Sozomeno of Pistoia and his Commentaries on Classical Texts
11:40 am - Discussion
     
12:00 pm - Luncheon, Knights Room
     
1:00 pm - Laurel Braswell-Means (McMaster University): The Vulnerability of Volvelles in Manuscript Codices
1:20 pm - Gretel Chapman (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale): Visual Narrative Devices Employed in a Twelfth-Century Manuscript of the Dialogues of Gregory the Great from Liège
1:40 pm - John B. Friedman (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and Russell Shermer (University of Illinois, Beckman Institute): Optical Scanning, Computer Image Storing, and Feature Space Analysis as Aids to Paleographical Investigation
2:00 pm - Discussion
     
2:20 pm - Coffee Break
     
2:40 pm - Patricia K. Nance (Central Missouri State University): Forty Years of the Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis University
3:00 pm - Betty J. Davis (Arizona State University): The Morgan Manuscript of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M. 242)
3:20 pm - Kenneth Brown (Millikin University): Garcilaso de la Vega and Naples Society: Newly Discovered Documentation in Manuscripts of the Vatican Library
3:40 pm - W. Nicholas Knight (University of Missouri, Rolla): A Law Manuscript of 1588/89 as Autobiographical Source of Shakespearean Plays
4:00 pm - Discussion
     
6:00 pm - Conference Dinner, Cupples House (Adjacent to Pius XII Memorial Library)

 

Saturday, 13 October 1990
Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library

     
9:00 am - Susan Boynton (Yale University): Yale University, Marston MS 213: The St. Florian Missal
9:20 am - Jeanne Krochalis (Pennsylvania State University): Miracles and History in British Library, MS Cotton Titus A XIX
9:40 am - Linda Chamberlain Jones (Ohio State University): A Newly Acquired Manuscript of the De planctu naturae of Alan of Lille in the Ohio State University Library
10:00 am - Discussion
     
10:20 am - Coffee Break
     
10:40 am - Barbara J. Watts (State University of Florida, Miami): Botticelli's Drawings for Inferno XII and XII: Dante's Demonic Militia (Berlin-Dahlem, Kupferstichkabinett)
11:00 am - Joan H. Holladay (University of Texas, Austin): The Willehalm Master and his Colleagues: Cooperative Manuscript Decoration in Early Fourteenth-Century Cologne
11:20 am - Raymond Cormier (Wilson College): Synchronizing Myth: Transmission and Continuity in "The Judgment of Paris" Episode of the Roman d'Eneas (vv. 92-182)
11:40 am - Discussion
     
12:00 pm - Luncheon, Knights Room
     
1:00 pm - Linus J. Thro, S.J. (Saint Louis University): Introduction to a Proposed Edition of the Questiones of John Dymsdale on Books X and XII of Aristotle's Metaphysics
1:20 pm - Steven J. Livesey (University of Oklahoma): Antonius de Carlenis, O.P., on the Subalternation of the Sciences
1:40 pm - Linda Ehrsam Voigts (University of Missouri, Kansas City): Catalogue of Incipits of Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English
2:00 pm - Discussion
     
2:20 pm - Coffee Break
     
2:40 pm - Frank T. Coulson (Ohio State University): The Rediscovery of Arnulf of Orleans' Glosses to Ovid's Creation Myth
3:00 pm - Kevin White (Catholic University of America): Report on Research into the Manuscript Tradition of St. Thomas Aquinas' Commentary on Aristotle's Meteora
3:20 pm - Charles J. Ermatinger (Saint Louis University): A Medieval Interpretation of Aristotle on Matter in Definitions of Mathematicals
3:40 pm - Discussion