by The Vatican Film Library announces the latest issue of its biannual journal on medieval and Renaissance manuscript studies, Manuscripta: A Journal for Manuscript Research. In publication since 1957, the journal features articles, notes, and reviews and welcomes submissions on medieval and Renaissance manuscript production, distribution, reception, and transmission — encompassing paleography, codicology, illumination, book production, library history, reading and literacy, textual editing and transmission, manuscript catalogues, and other subjects.
Articles:
— Bill Endres, “The St. Chad Gospels: Ligatures and the Division of Hands”
— Alison Manges Nogueira, “An Illuminated Schoolbook for Ludovico Sforza: Portraiture in Educational Manuscripts at the Court of Milan”
— Richard and Mary Rouse, “The Biographical Annotations in the Céberet Hours (UCLA Special Collections, Rouse MS 144)”
— Thomas W. Smith, “The Authorship of the Register of Bassus notarius”
Manuscript Notes:
— Nicholas Herman and Samuel Gras, “Three Miniatures by the Young Jean Bourdichon in the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia”
Book Reviews:
— Calle-Martín, Javier, and Miguel Ángel Castaño-Gil, eds. A Late Middle English Remedy-Book (MS Wellcome 542, ff. 1r–20v): A Scholarly Edition (Peter Murray Jones)
— Hindman, Sandra, and James Marrow, eds. Books of Hours Reconsidered (Patricia Stirnemann)
— Kennedy, Kathleen E. The Courtly and Commercial Art of the Wycliffite Bible (Nigel Morgan)
— Kwakkel, Erik, Rosamond McKitterick, and Rodney Thomson. Turning Over a New Leaf: Change and Development in the Medieval Book (Helen Foxhall Forbes)
— Maxwell, Kathleen. Between Constantinople and Rome: An Illuminated Byzantine Gospel Book (Paris gr. 54) and the Union of Churches (Fotini Kondyli)
Submissions
The journal accepts articles and notes on topics relating to medieval and Renaissance manuscript studies, including (but not limited to) paleography, codicology, illumination, library history, reading and literacy, and manuscript catalogues.
Contributions are evaluated by peer review. Material for consideration should be submitted in English, following the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed., with footnotes, double-spaced, and in electronic form (Microsoft Word). Please include an abstract of no more than 150 words as well as ten keywords. Citations and footnotes should be robust and full manuscript shelfmarks are expected. Where appropriate, please include citations to pertinent critical editions.
“Manuscript Notes” are a means to share preliminary observations, conjectures, and conclusions. The maximum length of submissions for such notes is 1,200-1,500 words (including foot notes), with accommodation for up to two black-and-white illustrations.
Address submissions and books for review to Manuscripta, Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library, Pius XII Memorial Library, Saint Louis University, 3650 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63108-3302 or to vfl@slu.edu.
Subscriptions
Manuscripta (ISSN 0025-2603) is published twice yearly for the Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library. For print and online subscriptions, contact Brepols Publishers. The journal is available online through Brepols Periodica Online. Print back issues for 1957-98 are available from the Vatican Film Library at $10 per issue.
The journal also publishes Manuscripta Publications in Manuscript Research, a subsidiary monograph series of studies, essay collections, or catalogues pertaining to medieval and Renaissance manuscript studies. Contact Brepols Publishers for more information. The first volume in the series is A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library at Holkham Hall. Vol. 1, Manuscripts from Italy to 1500. Pt. 1, Shelfmarks 1–399, by Suzanne Reynolds.
