Twenty-Sixth Annual
Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies
(8-9 October 1999)

 

Friday, 8 October 1999
Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library

     
9:00 am - Registration, Vatican Film Library
     
10:00 am - Mary-Jo Arn (Cambridge, MA): When to Meddle with a Manuscript
10:20 am - Karen Fresco (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): The Design of Westminster 21, A Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Anthology
10:40 am - Karl Fugelso (Columbia University): Early Modern Responses to Dante's Authority: Iconoclasm in Illuminated Manuscripts of the Divine Comedy
11:00 am - Discussion
     
11:20 am - Coffee Break
     
11:40 am - Gregory Sebastian, O.S.B. (Hill Monastic Manuscript Library): Benedictine Spirituality in the Late Thirteenth Century Seen in a Prayerbook of Mondsee Abbey
12:00 pm - Kerry E. Spiers (University of Louisville): Maynsforth's Malevolent Manuscript, MS Bodleian 52
12:20 pm -  Discussion
     
12:30 pm - Luncheon, Knights Room
     
1:20 pm - Donald F. Jackson (University of Iowa): A Search for Legal Sources in the Mid-Sixteenth Century
1:40 pm - W. Nicholas Knight (University of Missouri, Rolla): New Manuscript Evidence of Two Shakespeare Plays for Performance at King James' Court
2:00 pm - Discussion
     
2:40 pm - Frank T. Coulson (Ohio State University): Codices Latini Ohienses: Latin Manuscripts in the William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library of the Ohio State University
3:00 pm - Belinda Egan (Hill Monastic Manuscript Library): The Anti-Crusading Visio cuiusdam Cartusiensis of 1455 and Its Manuscript Tradition
3:20 pm - Mark Jones (Saint Louis University): Lay Women and Sarum Ritual: A Nuptial Prayer from Morgan MS. 861
3:40 pm - Discusion
     
4:00 pm - George R. Keiser (Kansas State University): Translation and Transmission: Textual Problems in Middle English Herbals
4:20 pm - Linda Ehrsam Voigts (University of Missouri, Kansas City): Who Wanted an English Translation of Bernard of Gordon's Lilium in the Early Fifteenth Century?
4:40 pm - Discussion
     
6:00 pm - Reception, Cupples House (Adjacent to Pius XII Memorial Library)

 

Saturday, 9 October 1999
Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library

     
10:00 am - Charles J. Zabrowski (Gettysburg College): The Text of Aeschylus's Persae in the Codex Vaticanus Palatinus gr. 139
10:20 am - David Vila (John Brown University): Greek into Arabic into Georgian: The Transmission of Christian Literature in Palestine during the Early Islamic Period
10:40 am - Clinton J. Armstrong (Washington University): Towards a Critique of Aetna Incerti Auctoris: Three Vatican Manuscripts
11:00 am - Discussion
     
11:20 am - Coffee Break
     
11:40 am - Anne Scott (Northern Arizona University): Huntington Library MS 129, fols. 218r-231r: The Nativity and Assumption of the Virgin Mary within the Context of other Rhymed Metrical Versions
12:00 pm - Jeanne Krochalis (Pennsylvania State University): The Miracle of Etcetera Wentworth: Suffolk, 1513, Feast of the Annunciation
12:20 pm - Discussion
     
12:30 pm - Luncheon, Knights Room
     
1:20 pm - Ralph E. Doty (University of Oklahoma): Manuscript Studies in the College Curriculum
1:40 pm - Barbara A. Beall (Providence College): Teaching Art History through the Study of Manuscripts: Considerations of Pedagogy and Methodology in Teaching
2:00 pm - Discussion
     
2:40 pm - Stephen E. Hayes (Hill Monastic Manuscript Library): A Tretyse of the Stodye of Wysdome that Men Clepen Benjamin: New Light on Its Authorship and Transmission
3:00 pm - Mary Hamel (Mount St. Mary's College): Textual Organization in the English Versions of Mandeville's Travels
3:20 pm - M.J. Toswell (University of Western Ontario): Millennial Anxiety and Prophetic Texts in Old English Manuscripts
3:40 pm - Discussion
     
4:00 pm - Bruce Brasington (West Texas A&M University): The Transmission of Ivo of Chartres Panormia in Medieval England
4:20 pm - Charles J. Ermatinger (Saint Louis University): A quaestio by John Dymsdale on Metaphysics VII in a Miscellany of Leipzig, Unversitätsbibliothek, Hs. 1427
4:40 pm - Discussion