The Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis University and its journal, “Manuscripta,” are pleased to announce program and registration information for the Thirty-Fifth Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, 17-18 October 2008, to be held at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. This annual conference features papers on medieval and Renaissance manuscript studies, including topics such as paleography, codicology, illumination, book production, library history, reading & literacy, textual criticism, and manuscript cataloguing.
Guest Speaker:
VIRGINIA BROWN
Center for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Conference sessions on the following themes:
- Maps and Diagrams of the Holy Land in Manuscripts: Graphic Presentations of Sacred Space
- Glossing across the Medieval School Curriculum
- Paleography and Manuscripts of the Early Middle Ages
- Manuscripts and Memory
- Production and Transmission of Medieval Musical Manuscripts
- German Vernacular Manuscripts
- Otto Ege and the Fortunes of Fragments
Program, registration, and hotel information for the conference available at http://www.slu.edu/libraries/vfl/conference.
Established in 1953, the Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library is a research collection for medieval and Renaissance manuscript studies that holds on microfilm more than 37,000 Vatican Library manuscripts comprising major portions of the Vatican’s Greek, Latin, and Western European vernacular collections, as well as materials in Arabic, Ethiopic, and Hebrew. Among its other collections, the Library possesses over 52,000 color slides of manuscript illumination from collections of the Vatican and other libraries; 2,500 manuscripts on microfilm from non-Vatican libraries; the microfiche editions of the Bibliotheca Palatina (consisting of more than 12,000 printed titles from the Vatican’s Palatine collection) and the Cicognara Library (consisting of more than 4,800 printed titles from the Vatican’s Cicognara collection on art, architecture, and archaeology); and the CD-ROM edition of the papal letter registers from the Archivio Segreto Vaticano.
The Vatican Film Library maintains an extensive reference collection for manuscript studies, including catalogues of Vatican Library manuscripts (complete sets of the Vatican’s published catalogues and unpublished inventories, and Studi e testi), as well as those of many other libraries, in addition to numerous works on paleography, codicology, illumination, and other disciplines to support the study of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and their texts. Researchers may also take advantage of the rare book and general collections of the Saint Louis University Library, which are especially strong in early and medieval church history, philosophy, and theology.
For further information, see http://www.slu.edu/libraries/vfl.
