30th Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies

30TH SAINT LOUIS CONFERENCE ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES
SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY
10–11 OCTOBER 2003

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, 10 OCTOBER 2003
Anheuser-Busch Auditorium, Cook Hall

Registration and Breakfast – 8:00am

Opening Remarks – 8:50am

Session I – 9:00am

Issues of Illustration in Manuscripts of Medieval Romance
Organizer: Meradith McMunn (Rhode Island College)

• The Game of Chess: A Multivalent Miniature in a Fragment of the “Roman de la Rose”
  Meradith McMunn (Rhode Island College)

• The Trojan Family Tree in France: The Unusual Full-Page Illuminations of an Early Copy of the “Roman de Troie”
  Elizabeth Morrison (J. Paul Getty Museum)

• Issues of Placing and Treatment of Illustrations in the Lancelot-Grail: A Comparative Study
  Alison Stones (University of Pittsburgh)

Morning Break – 10:30am

Session II – 11:00am

The Face of the Page: First Impressions, Graphic Habits, and Manuscript Design
Organizer: Nancy van Deusen (Claremont Graduate University)

• The Layout of Early Manuscripts of Bede
  George H. Brown (Stanford University)

• The Pseudo-Peter of Poitiers Gloss: First Soundings
  Marcia L. Colish (Yale University)

• The Face of the Page and the Imagination of Space
  Nancy van Deusen (Claremont Graduate University)

Luncheon – 12:30pm
Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library

Session III – 2:00pm

Islamic Manuscripts
Organizer: Sylvie L. Merian (The Pierpont Morgan Library)

• Paper and Islamic Manuscripts
  Jonathan Bloom (Boston College)

• The Manuscripts of Rashid al-Din
  Sheila Blair (Boston College)

• In the Beginning … : Frontispieces and Front Matter in Early Persian Illustrated Manuscripts
  Marianna Shreve Simpson (Baltimore, Md.)

Afternoon Break – 3:30pm

LOWRIE J. DALY, S.J., MEMORIAL LECTURE ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES – 4:00pm

• Lucy Freeman Sandler (New York University)
  The Role of Illustrations in Medieval Encyclopedias

Reception – 5:30-7:00pm
Samuel E. Cupples House

SATURDAY, 11 OCTOBER 2003
Anheuser-Busch Auditorium, Cook Hall

Breakfast – 8:30am

Session IV – 9:00am

Aspects of French Vernacular Manuscript Production
Organizer: Richard H. Rouse (University of California, Los Angeles)

• Language, Genre, and Manuscript Production: The Case of Johannes Jacobi
  Keith Busby (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

• The Role/Roll of Rubrics in the Commercial Production of Vernacular Texts in Paris, 1318-1418
  Mary Rouse (University of California, Los Angeles)

• Preparing Multiple Copies in Short Order: The Evidence from the Surviving Original Manuscripts of Christine de Pizan's "Livre des fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V"
  Christine Reno (Vassar College)

Morning Break – 10:30am

LOWRIE J. DALY, S.J., MEMORIAL LECTURE ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES – 11:00am

• Jonathan J.G. Alexander (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
  Portraiture in Italian Renaissance Manuscripts

Luncheon – 12:30pmKnights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library

Session V – 2:00pm

Greek Manuscripts
Organizer: Donald F. Jackson (University of Iowa)

• Greek Manuscripts in the Vatican Library in 1518
  Donald F. Jackson (University of Iowa)

• Compiling an Album of Watermarks of Sixteenth-Century Greek Manuscripts
  Mark L. Sosower (North Carolina State University)

• The Repertorium of Greek Copyists: A Mine of Information for Cultural History of the Middle Ages
  Ernst Gamillscheg (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek)

Afternoon Break – 3:30pm

Session VI – 4:00pm

Images, Rhetoric, and Narrative
Organizer: Sherry C.M. Lindquist (St. Louis, MO)

• The Role of the Image in Illustrated Manuscripts of "Les Miracles de Notre-Dame" by Gautier de Coinci (ca. 1177‒1236)
  Anna Russakoff (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)

• The Rhetoric of Silence: Picturing the Book at a Carthusian Charterhouse
  Sherry C.M. Lindquist (St. Louis, MO)

• Visual Rhetoric in Early Fifteenth-Century French Humanist Translation
  Anne D. Hedeman (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Closing Remarks – 5:30pm