The Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis University is pleased to
announce program and registration information for the Thirty-Fourth
Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, 12–13 October,
2007, to be held at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. The
annual conference features papers on medieval and Renaissance manuscript
studies, including such topics as paleography, codicology, illumination,
book production, library history, reading & literacy, textual criticism,
and manuscript cataloguing.
The guest speaker for 2007 will be Professor Nigel Morgan (Corpus
Christi College, Cambridge) speaking on The Great Canterbury Psalter [Paris BnF Latin 8846] in
a paper entitled:
- Winchester, Canterbury, and Sigena: The Problem of the Last Copy of
the Utrecht Psalter


(c) Paris BnF Fol. 150v. Psaume 84 : Adam et Eve chassés du Paradis Terrestre; l' Annonciation

Sessions at this year’s conference will feature papers on:
- Gothic English Manuscripts
- Secular English Manuscripts
- Who, Where, and Why: Some Iconographical Issue to
Celebrate Ninety Years of the Index of Christian Art
(Sponsored by the Index of Christian Art)
- Manuscripts and their Makers, before and beyond Paris
(Sponsored by the International Center for Medieval Art)
- Writing the Words in Italy, 10th to15th Century
(Sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America)
- Finding, Annotating, and Reading Texts on Papyrus
- Italian Sixteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts
Program and registration information for the conference are available on
the website of the Vatican Film Library at
http://www.slu.edu/libraries/vfl/events.htm.
Established in 1953, the Vatican Film Library is a research collection
for medieval and Renaissance manuscript studies, holding as its core
collection microfilmed copies of approximately 37,000 manuscripts from
the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. The library promotes basic research
in the humanities through the study of manuscript sources. For further
information, see http://www.slu.edu/libraries/vfl/index.html.
Contact
Gregory A. Pass
Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections
Librarian, Vatican Film Library - Editor, Manuscripta
Pius XII Memorial Library - Saint Louis University
3650 Lindell Boulevard - St. Louis, Missouri  63108
Tel. (314) 977-3096 / Fax (314) 977-3108
http://www.slu.edu/libraries/vfl
passga@slu.edu