Shedding New Light on Illuminated Manuscripts: Recent Developments in Manuscript Studies by Australian Scholars
Members of the ARC Linkage Project: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Australia: researching and relating Australiaʼs manuscript holdings to new technologies and new readers are holding a one-day symposium. This symposium offers the opportunity for the wider community to hear the recent advances in Medieval and Renaissance studies made by Australian scholars.
Keynote Addresses by Dr Christopher de Hamel, Corpus Christi College, University Cambridge, and Dr Martin Kauffmann, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford will present new research on 12th Century Manuscripts. Their presentations are offered as Free Lectures open to the Public. Symposium Attendees will be automatically registered for the Keynote Addresses.
Full Program
9:00am Margaret Manion Introduction
9:20 – 9:50 Bernard Muir Recent Innovations in the Digital Analysis and Publication of Medieval Manuscripts
9:50-10:10 Toby Burrows Europa Inventa: taking Australia’s manuscript holdings to the world
10:10-10:30 Hilary Maddocks An unexamined sixteenth-century Book of Hours in the State Library of South Australia
Morning tea
10:45 – 11:10 Anna Welch The Codex Sancti Paschalis: Re-reading Franciscan liturgical identity and book production in Umbria, 1280-1350
11:10-11:30 Anne Neville Familial narrative: lineage and family relationships in the medieval romance
11:30-11:50 Elaine Shaw The Master of the Breviary of Jean sans Peur: early fifteenth Parisian and courtly book illumination
12-1pm Martin Kauffmann Keynote lecture, Praying with Pictures: A TwelfthCentury Psalter in the Bodleian Library
A psalter of the late twelfth century in the Bodleian Library (MS. Gough Liturg. 2) is known as a member of a group of manuscripts produced in the north of England at the end of the Romanesque period, which share elements of style and iconography. But the Bodleian manuscript contains an important feature not found in the other manuscripts: a series of prayers which face each miniature in the prefatory cycle of New Testament scenes. This paper seeks to understand how the texts and pictures were designed to interact.
Lunch break (own arrangements)
2:15 – 2:35 Libby Melzer Separating the sheep from the goats: the parchment of a group of Italian manuscripts from the State Library of Victoria
2:35 – 3:00 John Stinson Modern technology and the study of medieval liturgical music: three Australian case studies and their international connections
3:00-3:20 Margaret Manion Tradition and Innovation in the illumination of the Italian choir book
3:20-3:40 Shane Carmody The way forward
Afternoon tea
5-6pm Christopher de Hamel Keynote lecture, The Giant Illuminated Bibles of Twelfth-Century England
About half a dozen giant-sized illuminated manuscripts of the whole Latin Bible survive from twelfth-century England. They include the Bury Bible (now at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge), the Winchester Bible (still in Winchester Cathedral), and the enigmatic Lambeth Bible (in the library of the Archbishops of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace in London). This lecture, which will be extensively illustrated, will consider their origins and patronage; it will suggest new dating for the Winchester Bible; and it will, for the first time, propose the identity of the original patron for the mysterious Lambeth Bible.
Date: 9:00 for 9:30 start, Monday 25th June
Venue: The Oratory, Newman College, University of Melbourne, 887 Swanston Street, Parkville
Bookings: Free and All Welcome but bookings required
Keynotes only http://www.trybooking.com/26876
Entire Symposium (including keynotes: http://www.trybooking.com/27235
Or email outreach@snac.unimelb.edu.au or phone 03 9342 1614
For further information on the symposium, please contact Alex Ellem: aellem@unimelb.edu.au or 0405 137 281
