by 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.
2017 Guest Speaker:
Dr. Marianna Shreve Simpson (Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania)
“Persian Manuscripts and the Meaning of Masterpiece”
2017 Conference Sessions:
- Antiquity Reimagined: Medieval Commentaries on Ancient Authors
- Islamic Manuscripts
- Manuscripts from Greater Asia
- Oriental Manuscripts Encountering European Traditions
- Manuscripts from Little-Studied Contexts
- Manuscript Patronage in Medieval Bologna
- Editing the Antique: Copies of Illustrated Antique and late Antique Manuscripts in the Long Tenth Century
Conference Program and Registration Information
For further information, visit the conference webpage or contact vfl@slu.edu or 314-977-3090.
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.
2017 Guest Speaker:
Dr. Marianna Shreve Simpson (Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania)
“Persian Manuscripts and the Meaning of Masterpiece”
2017 Conference Sessions:
- Antiquity Reimagined: Medieval Commentaries on Ancient Authors
- Islamic Manuscripts
- Manuscripts from Greater Asia
- Oriental Manuscripts Encountering European Traditions
- Manuscripts from Little-Studied Contexts
- Manuscript Patronage in Medieval Bologna
- Editing the Antique: Copies of Illustrated Antique and late Antique Manuscripts in the Long Tenth Century
Conference Program and Registration Information
For further information, visit the conference webpage or contact vfl@slu.edu or 314-977-3090.
