43rd Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, 14–15 October 2016
Vatican Film Library, Saint Louis University
St. Louis, Missouri
Organized annually since 1974 by the Vatican Film Library, part of the Saint Louis University Libraries Department of Special Collections, this two-day conference features papers on a wide variety of topics in medieval and Renaissance manuscript studies — paleography, codicology, illumination, book production, texts and transmission, library history, and more.
2016 Guest Speaker:
Madeline H. Caviness (Mary Richardson Professor Emeritus, Tufts University)
“Medieval German Law and the Jews: The Sachsenspiegel Picture-Books”
2016 Conference Sessions:
All Things Visible and Invisible: Illuminating Working Practices in Manuscript Making
Creating Memory, Creating Identity
Pages with Extended Pedigree: Second-Hand Manuscripts and Their Owners
Illuminating Metalwork: Representations of Precious-Metal Objects in Medieval Manuscript Illumination
Revelations of Codicology
Manuscripts for Travelers
Beyond Arbiters of Lay Piety and Ambassadors of Culture: Revisiting Bell’s Medieval Women Book Owners
Conference Program and Registration Information
For further information, visit the conference webpage< http://lib.slu.edu/special-collections/programs/conference > or contact vfl@slu.edu or 314-977-3090.
The Vatican Film Library< http://lib.slu.edu/special-collections/collections/vfl > is a research library for medieval and Renaissance manuscript studies that holds on microfilm about 40,000 manuscripts, principally from the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. In addition to its annual conference, the library also publishes twice yearly “Manuscripta: A Journal for Manuscript Research< http://lib.slu.edu/special-collections/publications/manuscripta >,” the monographic series “Manuscripta Publications in Manuscript Research< http://lib.slu.edu/special-collections/publications/manuscripta-research >,” and offers fellowships< http://lib.slu.edu/special-collections/research/fellowship > for research in its collections. It is part of Special Collections< http://lib.slu.edu/special-collections > in the Saint Louis University Libraries. Keep in touch with us through our blog, “Special Collections Currents,”< http://pius7.slu.edu/special_collections > or Twitter<https://twitter.com/SLUSpecColl>.
