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
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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