35TH ANNUAL SAINT LOUIS CONFERENCE ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES, 17–18 OCTOBER 2008

35TH ANNUAL SAINT LOUIS CONFERENCE ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES, 17–18 OCTOBER 2008

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.