Texts and Contexts: A manuscript conference at The Ohio State University, sponsored by The Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies
November 6-7, 2009Presented with the generous support of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Center for the Study of Religion, the Department of Greek and Latin, and the Department of History.
For more information about the conference, please call 614-292-3280 or email us at epig@osu.edu.
Program
Friday, November 6, 2009(90 Science and Engineering Library, 175 W. 18th Avenue)
9:00-10:30 am – Anglo-Saxon Texts
Moderator: Christopher A. Jones (Department of English, The Ohio State University)
Thomas Bredehoft (Department of English, West Virginia University)
Attributing Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Passages to Wulfstan
Leslie Lockett (Department of English, The Ohio State University)
Ninth-Century Continental Verse Manuscripts and the Pioneering of Metrical Pointing in Old English Biblical Verse
Jane Toswell (Department of English, University of Western Ontario)
An Anglo-Saxon Perspective on Anglo-Norman Psalters
10:30-10:50 am – Break
10:50 am-12:00 pm – Classical Texts and Their Progeny
Moderator: Michael Meckler (Permanent Fellow, Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, The Ohio State University)
Gregory Hays (Department of Classics, University of Virginia)
Quintus and the Well: an Epigram by "Porfyrius"
John Richards (Department of Greek and Latin, The Ohio State University)
Georg Schuler's Commentary on the Metamorphoses
12:00-1:00 pm – Lunch
1:00-2:30 pm Session in Memory of Joseph H. Lynch (Panel co-sponsored by the Dept. of History, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and the Center for the Study of Religion)
Moderator: Frank T. Coulson (Director of Palaeography, Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, The Ohio State University)
Barbara Hanawalt (King George III Professor of History, The Ohio State University)
Doodlers and Minute Takers in Fifteenth-Century London
James Bennett (Department of History, The Ohio State University)
Were Peasants Reading Old English in the Fourteenth Century?: The Peculiar Audience of a Previously Unknown Copy of Anglo-Saxon Charter S 1031
Roger Reynolds (Senior Fellow Emeritus, University of Toronto)
The Peregrinations of an Early Visigothic-Script Pandect Bible
2:30-2:50 pm – Break
2:50-4:10 pm – Varia
Moderator: Harald Anderson (Independent scholar)
Dean Sakel (Turkish Historical Society, Ankara)
The Ottoman-Period Rebirth of Byzantine Chronography: The Chronicle of 1570; Its Manuscript Tradition and Cultural Context
Gabriel Feyd Gryffyn (Department of English, University of Minnesota)
Mistrusting the "Miscellany": The Organization of National Library of Wales MS Brogyntyn ii.I
Stefan Alexandru (Research Fellow, University of Heidelberg)
New Manuscript and Incunabular Evidence Regarding the Gentilic Name ‘Claudius' Borne by Galen of Pergamum According to the Older Scholarly Literature
4:10-4:30 pm – Break
4:30-5:30 pm – Plenary Talk
Introduction: Richard Firth Green (Director,Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, The Ohio State University)
Scott Gwara (Department of English, University of South Carolina)
America's Orphan Manuscripts
5:30-7:00 pm – Reception at Faculty Club (181 S. Oval Drive)
Saturday, November 7
(90 Science and Engineering Library, 175 W. 18th Avenue)
9:00-10:30 am – Grammar School Manuscripts in the Herzog August Bibliothek
Moderator: David T. Gura (Department of Greek and Latin, The Ohio State University)
Sarah Baechle (Department of English, University of Notre Dame)
Some Evidence for Schoolbook Use in HAB Cod. Guelf. Aug. 87.5 2º
Yvonne Mikuljan (Literature Program, University of Notre Dame)
Student Handwriting and the Schoolbook in HAB, P 411 4o Helmst.
Nathan Ristuccia (Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame)
The Missing Reference Tools of HAB Cod. Guelf. Aug. 36.21 2º
10:30-10:50 am – Break
10:50 am-12:15 pm – Ethiopic, Syriac, and Arabic Texts in Context
Moderator: Robert R. Phenix (Department of Theological Studies, Saint Louis University)
Pierluigi Piovanelli (Department of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Ottawa)
Dealing with Multiple Recensions in the Manuscript Tradition of Ethiopian Apocryphal Texts: Some Methodological Issues
Robert R. Phenix (Department of Theological Studies, Saint Louis University)
The Transmission of Greek and Syriac Exegesis in the Context of Islam: the Jacobite Scholion of Vat. Sir. 103
Cornelia B. Horn (Department of Theological Studies, Saint Louis University)
The Role of Jacob of Serugh in the Transmission of Infancy-of-Jesus Traditions from Syriac into the Milieu of the Quran and the Islamic Lives of the Prophets
12:15-1:15 pm – Lunch
1:15-2:45 pm – Late Medieval Manuscripts and Manuscript Collections
Moderator: Daniel Hobbins (Department of History, The Ohio State University)
Daniel Hobbins (Department of History, The Ohio State University)
The Authorial Colophon: Its History and Meaning
Christine Caldwell Ames (Department of History, University of South Carolina)
The Doat Collection and the Essentialism of Medieval Heresy
David Mengel (Department of History, Xavier University)
Friar-fighting in Prague: Manuscripts of the Apologia of Conrad of Waldhauser († 1369)
2:45-3:00 pm – Break
3:00-4:00 pm – Varia
Moderator: Carin Ruff (Virgina Brown Fellow, Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, The Ohio State University and Department of English, Cornell University)
Patrizia Carmassi (Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel)
A Missal for Salvation. Art, Liturgy and Codicology in 13th-Century Halberstadt
Marc Saurette (Department of History, Carleton University)
The Earliest Manuscripts of Richard of Poitiers' Writings
4:00-4:15 pm – Break
4:15-5:30 pm – Prayers and Devotions
Moderator: Jeanne Krochalis (Department of English, Pennsylvania State University)
Jay Kratz (Department of English, Rutgers University)
Paper, Print, and Uncommon Prayer
Patrick McBrine (Department of English, John Carroll University)
Versifications of the Pater Noster in Cul. G.g. 5.35
Peter Slonina (The Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University)
A Critical Treatment of Plimpton Add. MS 04.
