Twenty-Fourth Annual
Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies
(10-11 October 1997)

Friday, 10 October 1997
Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library

     
8:00 am - Registration, Vatican Film Library
     
8:30 am - B. Rachel Beckwith (Bryn Mawr College): Haverford College's Thirteenth-Century Hebrew Bible: A Case Study in Manuscript Attribution
8:50 am - David Vila (Saint Louis University): The Textual Development of an Apologetic against Islam: Sinai Arabic 445, 448, 513, and Vatican Arabic 175
9:10 am - Stephen Clancy (Ithaca College): Le Livre des sept âges du monde and the Early Illumination of Simon Marmion
9:30 am - Discussion
     
9:50 am - Steven A. Stofferahn (Purdue University): Women of the Book: Düsseldorf, Landes- und Universitätsbibliothek Sammelhandschrift B.3 and its Place in Carolingian Literary Culture
10:10 am - Frank T. Coulson (Ohio State University): The Biographical Anthology in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
10:30 am - Mary-Jo Arn (Bloomsburg University): Masterminding Manuscript Production in Three Languages: A Fifteenth-Century Example
10:50 am - Discussion
     
11:10 am - David Neville (Washington University): Expanding the Medieval German Bonaventurian Corpus: An Edition of Das Buoch der Betrachtunge in Codex Vat. Palatinus Latinus 396
11:30 am - Albert C. Rotola, S.J. (Saint Louis University): Two Treatises of Gaspar Stoquerus the German on Music Instruction for Choirboys
11:50 am -  Discussion
     
12:00 pm - Luncheon, Knights Room
     
1:30 pm - Paul Shore (Saint Louis University): Eight Tombstone Inscriptions from Ancient Rome: Paleographic, Linguistic, and Interpretative Problems
1:50 pm - Jan. K. Bulman (Michigan State University): Some Evidence of Italian Notarial Influence in the Register of John Pecham, Archbishop of Canterbury (1279-1292)
2:10 pm - Theresa M. Vann (Hill Monastic Manuscript Library): Hospitaller Record Keeping and Notarial Practices in Rhodes
2:30 pm - Discussion
     
2:50 pm - W. Nicholas Knight (University of Missouri, Rolla): Shakespeare's Law Hand in Some Legal MSS?
3:10 pm - Tom Reedy (Angelo State University): Shakespeare the Scrivener: A Paleographic Examination of Four Legal Documents Concerning William Shakespeare
3:30 pm - Nancy P. Pope (Washington University): What a Manuscript Page from the 1890s Says about Nineteenth-Century Medieval Studies
3:50 pm - Discussion
     
4:10 pm - Barbara Apelian Beall (Providence College): Using Canon Tables in Insular Manuscripts as Evidence: A Review and a Revision of the Current Methodological Framework
4:30 pm - Chad Oness (University of Wisconsin, La Cross): Illuminating Oral Culture: Anglo-Saxon Manuscript Illustration in a Native Context
4:50 pm - Charles S. Buchanan (Montana State University): The Canonry of S. Frediano in Lucca during the Era of the Gregorian Reform: Evidence of a Scriptorium
5:10 pm - Discussion
     
6:00 pm - Reception, Cupples House (Adjacent to Pius XII Memorial Library)

 

Saturday, 11 October 1997
Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library

     
8:30 am - M.J. Toswell (University of Western Ontario): The Old English Apollonius of Tyre (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 201, pp. 131-145): Manuscript Misfit or Not?
8:50 am - Jean E. Jost (Bradley University): Political Dissent and Heresy in the Pricke of Conscience: Huntington Library, Manuscripts HM 125 and HM 128
9:10 am - George R. Keiser (Kansas State University): The Long Life and Complex Adventures of a Middle English Remedy Book
9:30 am - Discussion
     
9:50 am - Stephen Schierling (Louisiana State University): Mappae mundi as Pictorial Analogies to the Text of Sallust
10:10 am - Mary Hamel (Mount St. Mary's College): An Anthology for the Armchair Traveler: London, BL MS. Arundel 123
10:30 am - Bruce W. Swann (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): A Portolan Chart in Urbana, Illinois
10:50 am - Discussion
     
11:10 am - William J. O'Neal (University of Toledo): The Manuscripts of the De imaginibus of Lazzarelli
11:30 am - Neil W. Bernstein (Duke University): After Poggio and before Poliziano: The Reception of Statius in an Unattributed Fifteenth-Century Commentary on Thebiad 1.1-415 (Duke, MS Latin 90)
11:50 am - Discussion
     
12:10 pm - Luncheon, Knights Room
     
1:30 pm - Donald F. Jackson (University of Iowa): Myths of Pillage and Theft: The Medici Greek Library in 1495
1:50 pm - Mark L. Sosower (North Carolina State University): A New Edition of the 1533 Inventory (Vat. lat. 3951, ff. 73-102) of Greek Manuscripts in the Vatican Library
2:10 pm - Charles J. Zabrowski (Gettysburg College): Significant Readings and Affiliations of the Codex Vaticanus Palatinus gr. 139 in the Prometheus Vinctus of Aeschylus
2:30 pm - Discussion
     
2:50 pm - Steven J. Livesey (University of Oklahoma): A Biographical Database of Commentators on Aristotle and Peter Lombard's Sentences
3:10 pm - Barbara Greenwell (University of Pittsburgh): The Eating Animals: Eucharistic Symbolism in the Iconography of the Nativity in Manuscript Painting
3:30 pm - Jennifer Jacobi (University of Utah): The Innovations of the Hardouyns: Illuminated Prints in French Books of Hours
3:50 pm - Discussion
     
4:10 pm - Martin Carmargo (University of Missouri, Columbia): The Long and Short of Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Documentum de modo et arte dictandi et versificandi
4:30 pm - Mark Dupuy (St. John's University): Past, Present, and Future: The Status Quo of John of Rupescissa Studies
4:50 pm - Deborah A. Gatewood (University of Pittsburgh): The Illustrative Tradition of Thomas de Cantimpré's De natura rerum: The Reception of a Thirteenth-Century Encyclopedia
5:10 pm - Discussion