BAGNOLI, Martina (ed.), Prayers in code. Books of Hours from Renaissance France. Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum, 2009. 86 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-911886-72-6. $ 14,95.

Accompanies the exhibition held from 25 april to 19 july 2009.

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BAIER-SCHRÖCKE, Helga, Die Buchmalerei in der Chronik des Ernst von Kirchberg im Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin. Ein Beitrag zu ihrer kunstgeschichtlichen Erforschung. Schwerin, Landeshauptarchiv, 2007 (Findbücher, Inventare und kleine Schriften des Landeshauptarchivs Schwerin: 13). 116 pp., ills. ISBN 3-9809707-2-8. € 19,80.

On a rhymed chronicle of Mecklenburg, probably illuminated by the cistercians of Doberan around 1378.

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BARNES, Carl. F., The Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Fr 19093). A new critical edition and color facsimile. Aldershot, Ashgate, 2009 (AVISTA Studies in the history of medieval technology, science and art). XXVI, 266 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-7546-5102-4. € 67,50.

Solid study and edition of a model-book with architectural drawings of c. 1230 by a Picard artist.

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BESAMUSCA, Bart, Remco SLEIDERINK en Geert WARNAR (eds.), De boeken van Velthem. Auteur, oeuvre en overlevering. Hilversum, Verloren, 2009 (Middeleeuwse Studies en Bronnen: 119). 296 pp., ills. ISBN 978-90-8704-093-2. € 29.

11 contributions on Velthem and his literary production.

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BROEKHUIJSEN, Klara H., The Masters of the Dark Eyes. Late medieval manuscript painting in Holland. Turnhout, Brepols, 2009 (Ars nova: 10). VIII, 472 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-51510-6. € 125.

Long awaited study dealing with the work of the most prolific book illuminators in Holland during the late 15th and early 16th century, with catalogue of 74 manuscripts.

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CAIE, Graham D. & Denis RENEVEY (eds.), Medieval texts in context. London [etc.], Routledge, 2008. IX, 257 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-415-36025-8. € 131,95.

Collection of essays on scribal practice and textual providence, glosses, rubrics, page lay-out, and even page ruling, in (mainly vernacular) manuscripts from England.

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CAVALLO, Guglielmo, Giovanna NICOLAJ (eds.), Chartae Latinae Antiquiores. Facsimile-edition of the Latin charters. 2nd series: Ninth century. Part LXXVIII: Italy L. Lucca VII. Dietikon-Zürich, Urs Graf, 2009. 128 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-85951-220-7. € 550.

Contains 50 charters, dated 842-845.

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CAVALLO, Guglielmo, Giovanna NICOLAJ (eds.), Chartae Latinae Antiquiores. Facsimile-edition of the Latin charters. 2nd series: Ninth century. Part LXXXIX: Italy LXI. Nonantola II. Dietikon-Zürich, Urs Graf, 2009. 144 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-85951-231-3. € 550.

Contains 32 charters, dated 818-899.

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CAVALLO, Guglielmo, Giovanna NICOLAJ (eds.), Chartae Latinae Antiquiores. Facsimile-edition of the Latin charters. 2nd series: Ninth century. Part CII: Switzerland V. Sankt Gallen III. Dietikon-Zürich, Urs Graf, 2009. 132 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-85951-247-4. € 550.

Contains 52 charters, dated 820-828.

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CYRUS, Cynthia J., The scribes for women’s convents in late medieval Germany. Toronto [etc.], University of Toronto Press, 2009. XIX, 387 pp. ISBN 978-0-8020-9369-1. € 70,95.

Demonstrates the prevalence of manuscript production by women in over 450 convents.

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DANIELS, Rhiannon, Boccaccio and the book. Production and reading in Italy 1340-1520. London, Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2009 (Italian perspectives: 19). 229 pp., ills. ISBN 978-1-906540-49-4. £ 45 / $ 89,50.

Traces the evolving social, cultural, and economic profile of Boccaccio’s readership and the scribes and printers who laboured to reproduce his works, focusing on the physical structure and presentation of manuscripts and printed books containing texts by this author.

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[ENGLER, Claudia, Denise WITTWER HESSE (eds.)], Schachzabel, Edelstein und der Gral. Spät­mittelalterliche Handschriftenschätze der Burger­bibliothek Bern. Bern, Burgerbibliothek, 2009 (Passepartout: 1). 80 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-7272-1225-3. CHF 29 / € 18,40.

Short introductions of some of the manuscripts exhibited in the summer of 2009.

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ERHART, Peter, Karl HEIDECKER, Bernhard ZELLER (eds.), Die Privaturkunden der Karolingerzeit. Dietikon-Zürich, Urs Graf, 2009. 287 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-85951-272-6. € 59.

Contributions presented at the international conference on the diplomatics of private charters in the Carolingian age held at Sankt Gallen, 20-23 september 2006, in celebration of the ChLA-editing project.

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LIBER AUREUS. Codex Fabariensis 2 des Stiftsarchivs Pfäfers im Stiftsarchiv St. Gallen. Kommentar von Anton von Euw und Werner Vogler. Graz, Akademische Druck- und Verlags­anstalt, 2008 (Glanzlichter der Buchkunst: 17). [110], 69 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-201-01901-9. € 89.

Facsimile of the ‘golden book’ of Pfäfers abbey near St. Gall, begun as an Evangelistarium at the end of the 11th century (with shortened commentary compared to the edition of 1993).

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DER ROSENROMAN für François I. Ms M.948 der Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Kommentar von Margareta Friesen. Graz, Akademische Druck- und Verlags­anstalt, 2007 (Glanzlichter der Buchkunst: 16). [428], 144 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-201-01887-6. € 72.

Facsimile of the 13th-century bestseller copied for the French king in 1519 (with shortened commentary compared to the edition of 1993).

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FUCHS, Thomas, Handschriften und Urkunden der Stadtbibliothek Leipzig in der Universitäts­bibliothek Leipzig: Neuzugänge nach 1838.

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GEIß, Jürgen, Mittelalterliche Handschriften in Greifswalder Bibliotheken. Verzeichnis der Bestände der Bibliothek des Geistlichen Ministeriums (Dombibliothek St. Nikolai), der Universitäts­bibliothek und des Universitätsarchivs. Wiesbaden, Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2009. LVI, 359 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-89500-596-1. € 128.

Describes 176 manuscripts, mainly late medieval (middle 13th-end 16th century), among which Books of Hours from Utrecht and Arnhem; a Book of Prayers a.o. from Maaseik; a Doctrinale written in 1478, probably in Schoonhoven; a fragment of the Roman der Lorreinen, Brabant, s. XIVc; and some other texts in Middle Dutch.

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GUMBERT, J.P., Illustrated inventory of medieval manuscripts in Latin script. Inventaire illustré de manuscrits médiévaux / Illustriertes Inventar mittelalterlicher Manuskripte. Intro­duction. Rules - Instructions. Hilversum, Verloren, 2009. 34 pp. ISBN 978-90-8704-110-6.

Introduction to the ‘IIMM’-project.

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GUMBERT, J.P., Illustrated inventory of medieval manuscripts in Latin script in the Nether­lands / Inventaire illustré de manuscrits médiévaux / Illustriertes Inventar mittel­alterlicher Manuskripte. 2: Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek BPL. Hilversum, Verloren, 2009. 338 pp. ISBN 978-90-8704-112-0. € 40.

Short codicological descriptions of all 1500 items (including fragments!) preserved in one of the the richest collectionsof medieval manuscripts in the Netherlands.

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HOLLANDER, A.A. den, Virtuelle Vergangenheit. Die Textrekonstruktion einer verlorenen mittelniederländischen Evangelienharmonie. Die Handschrift Utrecht Universitätsbibliothek 1009. Leuven [etc.], University Press/Peeters, 2007. X, 168 pp., ills. ISBN 978-90-429-1989-1. € 58.

Relates the last adventures and reconstructs the text of a 15th-century dutch manuscript lost in (or after!) World War II.

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HOUTHUYS, Astrid, Middeleeuws kladwerk. De autograaf van de Brabantsche yeesten, boek VI (vijftiende eeuw). Hilversum, Verloren, 2009 (Schrift en schriftdragers in de Nederlanden in de Middeleeuwen: 4). 370 pp., ills. ISBN 978-90-8704-063-5. € 39.

Scrutinizes an exeptional piece of rhymed historiography written for the Burgundian court in Brussels.

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HüLSMANN, Margriet, Tronies, baardmannen en hondenkoppen. Noord-Hollandse boek­decoratie uit derde-orde-conventen aangesloten bij het Kapittel van Utrecht (ca. 1430-1480). Een kunsthistorisch-codicologisch onderzoek naar aanleiding van een Legenda aurea van 1450 uit Amsterdam. Enschede, PrintPartners Ipskamp, 2009. 254 pp., ills. Geen ISBN.

Dissertation on book decoration in Amsterdam. Digital edition: http://dare.ubvu.vu.nl//handle/1871/15527.

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HUSBAND, Timothy B., The art of illumination. The Limbourg brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry. New York/New Haven [etc.], Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2008. XII, 376 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-300-13671-5. € 61,95.

Monography on the only manuscript executed in its entirety by the famed Limbourg brothers.

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KöNIG, Eberhard, Christian Tico SEIFERT und Guido SIEBERT (eds.), Bible moralisée. Prachthandschriften des Hohen Mittelalters. Gesammelte Schriften von Reiner Haussherr. Petersberg, Inhof, 2009. 207 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-86568-168-3. € 39,95.

Studies on illustrated bibles from 13th-century France, selected on the occasion of the 70th birthday of the author.

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KRENN, Margit, Christoph WINTERER, Mit Pinsel und Federkiel. Geschichte der mittelalterlichen Buchmalerei. Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2009. 160 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-89678-648-7. € 39,90.

General, albeit skillful, introduction to illustrated medieval manuscripts.

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LEEFLANG, Micha, e.a. (eds.)], Beeldschone boeken. De Middeleeuwen in goud en inkt. Zwolle, Waanders, 2009. 160 pp., ills. ISBN 978-90-400-8581-9. € 29,95.

Catalogue of the exhibition in Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, 16 may-23 august 2009.

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LOWDEN, John, The Jaharis gospel lectionary. The story of a Byzantine book. New York/New Haven, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2009. XIV, 130 pp., ills. ISBN 978-1-58839-343-2/978-0-300-14899-2. $ 30.

Monography on an almost entirely unknown but superbly preserved lectionary produced in Constantinople around 1100.

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MARCHIARO, Michaelangiola, Stefano ZAMPONI (eds.), Conoscere il manoscritto: esperienze, progetti, problemi. Dieci anni del progetto Codex in Toscana. Atti del convegno internazionale Firenze, 29-30 giugno 2006. Firenze, SISMEL, 2007. X, 329 pp., ills. ISBN 978-88-8450-263-6. € 54.

Contributions on cataloguing projects, mainly in Italy, but also from North America and Germany.

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MARCHIOLI, Nicoletta Giovè, Martina PANTAROTTO (eds.), I manoscritti datati della Biblioteca Queriniana di Brescia. Firenze, SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2008 (Manoscritti datati d’Italia: 18). 82 pp., ills. ISBN 978-88-8450-306-0. With cd-rom. € 110.

Contains descriptions of 77 manuscripts dated 1247-1491, with 82 plates.

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McGRADY, Deborah, Controlling readers. Guillaume de Machaut and his late medieval audience. Toronto [etc.], University of Toronto Press, 2006. XII, 310 pp., ills. ISBN 978-08-0209-020-1. $ 67,50.

Case study on the reception of vernacular poetry and the impact of lay litteracy on European culture.

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MORGAN, Nigel, & Stella PANAYOTOVA (eds.), Illuminated manuscripts in Cambridge. A catalogue of western book illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part one: the Frankish Kingdoms, the Low Countries, Germany, Bohemia, Hungary and Austria. Volume one: the Frankish Kingdoms, Northern Netherlands, Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Austria / Volume two: The Meuse region, Southern Netherlands. London [etc.], Harvey Miller, 2009. 255, 292 pp., ills. ISBN 978-1-905375-61-5 and 978-1-905375-62-2. € 200.

First publication in a major new series of catalogues covering all the Western medieval illuminated manuscripts in Cambridge (except those in the University Library); catalogues 251 manuscripts.

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PANI, Laura, & Cesare SCALON (eds.), Le Alpi porta d’Europa. Scritture, uomini, idee da Giustiniano al Barbarosse. Atti del convegno internazionale di studio dell’Associazione italiana dei Paleografi e Diplomatisti, Cividale del Friuli (5-7 ottobre 2006). Spoleto, Centro Italiano di Studi sull’alto Medioevo, 2009 (Studi e ricerche: 4). XXII, 636 pp., ills. ISBN 978-88-7988-418-1. € 80.

Fifteen contributions on early medieval manuscripts on both sides of the Alps.

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PRIEM, Ruud (ed.), Op reis en aan tafel met Katherina van Kleef 1417-1476. [Antwerpen], Ludion, 2009. 159 pp., ills. ISBN 978-90-5544-825-8. € 24,90.

Tasteful essays adjoining the minor exhibition in Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen.

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DE SCHRYVER, Antoine, The Prayer Book of Charles the Bold. A study of a Flemish masterpiece from the Burgundian court. Los Angeles, Paul Getty Museum, 2008. 310 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-89236-943-0. € 56,95.

The culmination of a lifetime of research on one of the dukes most splendid commissions from the Burgundian Netherlands (1469).

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SITAR, Gerfried, Martin KROKER (eds.), Macht des Wortes. Benediktinisches Mönchtum im Spiegel Europas. Regensburg, Schnell & Steiner, 2009. 2 vol., 423, 480 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-7954-2125-0. € 49,90.

Richly illustrated volumes with essays and catalogue of the twin-exhibition held in Austria, obtainable at an incredible price.

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DAS ANTIPHONAR von St. Peter. Codex Vindobonensis Ser. n. 2700 der Österreichischen National­bibliothek. Teil 1: pag. 1-438. Kommentar von Franz Unterkircher und Otto Demus. Graz, Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 2009 (Glanzlichter der Buchkunst: 18/1). [438], 140 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-201-01912-5. € 72.

Facsimile of the Antiphonarium of St. Peter in Salzburg, written around 1160 (with shortened commentary compared to the edition of 1974).

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VILLALOBOS HENNESSY, Marlene (ed.), Tributes to Kathleen L. Scott. English medieval manuscripts: readers, makers and illuminators. London [etc.], Harvey Miller, 2009. 292 pp., ills. ISBN 978-1-872501-08-6. € 125.

Fifteen essays on various aspects of the late medieval English manuscript book, among which penwork and other decoration.

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WINSBURY, Rex, The Roman book. Books, publishing and performance in classical Rome. London, Duckworth, 2009 (Classical Literature and Society: [12]). XII, 236 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-7156-3829-3. £ 18.

Examines, by appeal to what Roman authors themselves tell us, both the raw materials and aesthetic critetia of the Roman book (a papyrus scroll) and the process of literary composition.

Ghent University (B)

September 21-22, 2010

The Department of Dutch Literature of Ghent University, the Department of Dutch Language and Culture of Radboud University Nijmegen and the Ruusbroecgenootschap (University of Antwerp) will hold an international conference on the transformation of texts and textual complexes in the medieval Netherlands. We hereby invite paper proposals exploring this theme.

Theme

Texts are subject to transformation, especially during the Middle Ages. The medieval textual culture was a manuscript culture that was characterized in a unique way by variance. Every new copy offered the scribe the possibility to adapt the text to new contextual circumstances. Central questions will therefore be: what happened to a text when it arrived outside the context where it originated? Why were texts varied in the Middle Ages? How did changing circumstances lead to adaptations within a text, so that it would function in an optimal way in its new context? How did the influence of the context manifest itself in medieval texts? Why were some texts not adapted, even when the circumstances seem to be perfect to provoke a change? These questions do not have to be limited to individual texts. One could think of larger textual complexes as well, such as manuscripts and book collections (libraries), as they were also subject to transformation and reveal in their composition a dynamic that is connected to contextual changes.

We invite you to submit a proposal for a paper that relates to the contextual shift of medieval texts within and from the Netherlands, and to elaborate on the whys and wherefores of the accompanying changes. What happened to texts when institutional changes occurred? How did the transition to another medium (from manuscript to print or vice versa) affect the text? In some cases, it is even possible to study a medieval text that has been handed down for a long(er) period. It would be interesting to observe the successive shifts within such a text. Next to these breaks of medium or context which stimulated transformation, the function and meaning of texts or textual complexes could also undergo changes when they got in the hands of a new user. This one could for instance make corrections and notes, which changed the meaning of the texts. A new owner could fit the texts in his (book) collection in a different way, and thus transform the nature of his collection and change the meaning of the texts.

The conference expressly intends to link interesting cases to methodology and the development of theories. The theme we have presented here has indeed been strongly emphasized within the so called New or Material Philology, and even earlier, within the überlieferungsgeschichtliche Forschung. These approaches have heavily influenced researchers in the last decades, but not everything that seems theoretically significant is also practicable. We could therefore ask: what are the possibilities of this source-orientated approach and at what point do we reach its borders? To what extent may we draw conclusions on the meaning and the function of manuscripts and book collections or on the profile of the owner, on the basis of the composition of a manuscript or a collection? To what extent may we draw conclusions on the meaning of a text and on the profile of the scribe, on the basis of changes in the text and on marginal notes?

An approach that wants to do justice to the original textual culture in the Netherlands cannot be limited to texts in only one language. At the scribe’s desk, in miscellanies and in book collections, texts in different languages were present. That is why we are not focusing attention solely on Dutch literature; we also want to include texts in other languages (Latin, French, German …) that were written and/or received in the Netherlands. In addition, we want to draw into the conference the Dutch literature that has been received in other regions.

Texts are subject to transformation, but the nature, reasons and interpretations of the changes, still remain to be studied.

Confirmed Keynote

Stephen G. Nichols, James M. Beall Professor of French and Humanities, Johns Hopkins University (USA)

Guidelines

Paper proposals (max. 250 words) can be sent to stabilityandtransformation@gmail.com before February 9, 2010. Presentations should be 20-30 minutes long. The official language at the conference will be English.

Organising Committee

Dirk Coigneau (Ghent University)

Youri Desplenter (Ghent University)

Renée Gabriël (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Thom Mertens (University of Antwerp)

Johan Oosterman (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Ulrike Wuttke (Ghent University)

Klik hier voor de aankondiging, met het programma en het inschrijfformulier, van het seminarie Léon Delaissé en de tentoonstelling De Vlaamse miniatuur (1959): vijftig jaar onderzoek naar de Bourgondische
miniatuurkunst, dat op 3 december te Brussel plaats zal vinden en georganiseerd wordt door het Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium.

Drie eeuwen kennis en cultuur in bijzondere boeken

Tentoonstelling in Museum Meermanno

Van 3 oktober 2009 t/m 10 januari 2010 organiseert Museum Meermanno de tentoonstelling ‘Boekenwijsheid. Drie eeuwen Nederlandse boekdrukkunst, 1540-1800′.

In deze eeuwen beleefde de Nederlandse boekproductie een ongekende bloei - zowel in aantal als in kwaliteit. In boekenland Nederland verschenen in deze periode meer dan 200.000 titels. De tentoonstelling laat hieruit een dwarsdoorsnede zien. Van topstukken tot gebruiksdrukwerk, van prachtige illustraties tot haastig handwerk, van almanakken tot atlassen, van devote werken tot erotisch proza,. Een uniek overzicht dat de bezoeker overtuigend duidelijk maakt waarom Nederland destijds internationaal een uitzonderlijke positie innam op het terrein van het gedrukte boek.
lees verder…

HISTORIANS OF NETHERLANDISH ART CONFERENCE
AMSTERDAM 27-29 MAY 2010

Session: “Manipulating the Object: Simultaneous Readings and Experiences”

Encounter with the image in the late Middle Ages (ca. 1350-early 16th century) was intimately connected to its reality as a physical object. Altarpieces were opened and closed, metalwork and other small sculptures were handled and repositioned, and even panel painting could be turned or reversed, while manuscripts by necessity required manipulation by hands. This session seeks to focus on how the physicality of an object invited simultaneous readings of the image, and how the possibility of multiple interpretations and functions enhanced its experience. How did users physically manipulate objects, and what did they gain by doing so? How did the actual space around the object and its internal virtual space interfere or interact with the way in which an object was used? While changing the context of an artwork’s display could have an impact on its reception and therefore its meaning, this session seeks to go beyond questions of portability and re-use, to show how boundaries between multiple readings are crossed through the actual shape of a work, its formal organization, by the way it was physically handled, or its possible use of different media. Inquiries into the documentation of such practices are invited, as are art historical and contextual inquiries that tie together iconographic, stylistic, devotional, political, material, and other approaches.

Session Organizers:

Dr. Anne Margreet As-Vijvers, University of Amsterdam
Dr. Margaret Goehring, University of Rochester

Please email a 1-page abstract and CV by Wednesday, July 1, 2009 to both organizers at:

asvijvers@xs4all.nl and mgoeh@rochester.rr.com

For further information, please go to HNA’s website.

BRAASCH-SCHWERSMANN, Ursula, Axel HALLE (eds.), Wigand Gerstenberg von Frankenberg 1457-1522. Die Bilder aus seinen Chroniken Thüringen und Hessen - Stadt Frankenberg. Marburg, Hessisches Landesamt für geschichtliche Landeskunde, 2007 (Untersuchungen und Materialien zur Verfassungs- und Landesgeschichte: 23). XVI, 391 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-921254-86-8. € 29.

Fifteen contributions and exhibition catalogue on all illustrations in one of the treasures of the Universitäts­bibliothek Kassel.

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BRINKMANN, Bodo, Das Stundenbuch der Grafen von Manderscheid, Gerolstein und Blankenheim. Sammlung Renate König IV. Köln, Kolumba, 2006 (Kolumba: 25). 86 pp., ills. ISBN 3-931326-52-7. € 16.

Nearby-facsimile of this splendid Latin Book of Hours produced in Bruges around 1515.

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[BUBENIK, Claudia, Cornelia JAHN (eds.)]. Kulturkosmos der Renaissance. Die Gründung der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek. Katalog der Ausstellung zum 450-jährigen Jubiläum 7. März bis 1. Juni 2008 und der Schatzkammerausstellung “Musikschätze der Wittelsbacher” 9. Juni bis 6. Juli 2008. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2008. 352 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-447-05672-4. € 49,80.

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CAVALLO, Guglielmo, Giovanna NICOLAJ (eds.), Chartae Latinae Antiquiores. Facsimile-edition of the Latin charters. 2nd series: Ninth century. Part LXXVII: Italy IL. Lucca VI. Dietikon-Zürich, Urs Graf, 2008. 156 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-85951-219-1. € 550.

Contains 50 charters, dated 835-842.

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CHAVANNES-MAZEL, Claudine A., Maerlants Rijmbijbel in Museum Meermanno. De kracht van woorden, de pracht van beelden. Den Haag, Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum, 2008. 163 pp., ills. ISBN 978-90-813402-1-2. € 16,95.

Describes all 64 miniatures of Rimebible 10 B 21 (dated 1332), with translations of Maerlant’s texts into modern Dutch.

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CONNOLLY, Margaret, & Linne R. MOONEY (eds.), Design and distribution of late medieval manuscripts in England. York, York Medieval Press, 2008 (Manuscript culture in the British Isles: 1). XIII, 336 pp., ills. ISBN 978-1-903153-24-6. € 103,50.

Thirteen essays, with a particular focus on vernacular manuscripts of the 14th-16th century.

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DANE, Joseph A., Abstractions of evidence in the study of manuscripts and early printed books. Farnham, Ashgate, 2009. 176 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-7546-6501-4. € 63,11.

Study regarding the nature of bibliography, questioning presuppositions in the use of ‘material evidence’ derived from manuscripts and printed books.

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DE ROBERTIS, Teresa, Cinzia DI DEO e Michaelangiola MARCHIARO (eds.), I manoscritti datati della Bibliotheca Medicea Laurenziana di Firenze. I: Plutei 12-34. Firenze, SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2008 (Manoscritti datati d’Italia: 19). 131 pp., ills. ISBN 978-88-8450-298-8. With cd-rom. € 125.

Contains descriptions of 99 manuscripts dated 1259-1515, with 114 plates.

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DRAKE BOEHM, Barbara, Choirs of angels. Painting in Italian choir books, 1300-1500. New York [etc.], The Metropolitan Museum of Art [etc.], 2009. 64 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-300-14142-9. $ 19,95.

Reprint of the delightful catalogue issued in conjunction with the exhibition in 2008.

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ESER, Thomas, und Anja GREBE (eds.), Heilige und Hasen. Bücherschätze der Dürerzeit. Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, 2008. 184 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-936688-35-1. € 29,95.

Catalogue of the exhibition on book illumination in Nürnberg around 1500.

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EUW, Anton von, Monasterium Sancti Galli. Die St. Galler Buchkunst vom 8. bis zum Ende des 11. Jahrhunderts. Band 1: Textband. Band 2: Tafelband. St. Gallen, Verlag am Kloster­hof, 2008 (Monasterium Sancti Galli: 3). 593, 731 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-906616-85-8. € 160.

Magnificent monograph on 167 manuscripts from the most famous Swiss abbey.

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[FABIAN, Claudia, Jürgen SCHEFZYK (eds.)], Die Ottheinrich-Bibel. Das erste illustrierte Neue Testament in deutscher Sprache. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 8010. Begleitbuch zu den Ausstellungen anlässlich der Zusammenführung der Ottheinrich-Bibel im Jahre 2008. Darmstadt, Primus Verlag, 2008 (Ausstellungskataloge der Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: 80). 214 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-89678-391-2. € 39,90.

On the occasion of the acquisition of the remaining five parts of this sumptuously illuminated manuscript (Regensburg, ca. 1425/30), named after its 16th-century owner Ottheinrich von Pfalz-Neuburg.

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FASSEUR, Valérie, (ed.), Froissart à la cour de Béarn. L’écrivain, les arts et le pouvoir. Turnhout, Brepols, 2009 (Texte, codex & contexte: 7)). 376 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-52867-0. € 69.

Seventeen contributions on Jean Froissart (1337-1410) and his surroundings.

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FERRELL, Lori Anne, The Bible and the people. New Haven/London, Yale University Press, 2008. XIII, 273 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-300-11424-9. $ 21,45 / £ 17,29.

Engaging look at the Bible’s impact on English-speaking readers over the centuries.

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FROSCHAUER, Harald, & Cornelia Eva RöMER (eds.), Spätantike Bibliotheken. Leben und Lesen in den frühen Klöstern Ägyptens. Wien, Phoibos, 2008 (Nilus: 14). VII, 158 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-901232-99-2. € 29.

On monastic libraries, book production and daily life in early Egypt.

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GATHERCOLE, Patricia M., The depiction of architecture and furniture in medieval French manuscript illumination. Lewiston [etc.], Edwin Mellen Press, 2006. 80 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-7734-5780-5. $99.95 / £ 64.95.

GATHERCOLE, Patricia M., The depiction of clothing in French medieval manuscripts. Lewiston [etc.], Edwin Mellen Press, 2008. 97 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-7734-5014-1. $99.95 / £ 64.95.

Two more tiny but expensive volumes in the sequence by the same author: animals / the landscape of nature / women / angels and devils, all depicted in medieval French manuscripts.

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GEORGES, Stefan, Das zweite Falkenbuch Kaiser Friedrichs II. Quellen, Entstehung, Über­lieferung und Rezeption des Moamin. Mit einer Edition der lateinischen Überlieferung. Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 2008 (Wissenkultur und gesellschaftlicher Wandel: 27). 459 pp. ISBN 978-3-05-004483-5. € 79,80.

Based on forty manuscripts and three prints.

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HARTL, Wolfgang, Text und Miniaturen der Handschrift Dialogus de laudibus sanctae crucis (München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 14159). Ein monastischer Dialog und sein Bilder­zyklus. Hamburg, Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2007 (Schriften zur Kunstgeschichte: 16). 518, [170] pp. and cd-rom, ills. ISBN 978-3-8300-3000-3. € 148.

Analysis of the Regensburger ‘Kreuzeslob’-manuscript of ca. 1170-1175, with complete transcription of the anonymous text.

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HEDEMAN, Anne D., Translating the past. Laurent de Premierfait and Boccaccio’s De casibus. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008. XV, 280 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-89236-935-5. $ 60.

Considers Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes and how this popular trans­lation was converted into visual images.

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KANNOWSKI, Bernd, Die Umgestaltung des Sachsenspiegelrechts durch die Buch’sche Glosse. Hannover, Hahnnsche Buchhandlung, 2007 (Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Schriften: 56). XLVI, 655 pp. ISBN 978-3-7752-5756-5. € 75.

Analysis of the 14th-century german commentary by Johann von Buch on Eike von Repgow’s Sachsenspiegel.

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KELLY, Stephen, and John J. THOMPSON (eds.), Imagining the book. Turnhout, Brepols, 2005 (Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe: 7). XVIII, 253 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-51693-6. € 63,60.

A snapshot of current research in English manuscript study in the pre-modern period on the inter-related topics of patrons and collectors, compilers, editors and readers, and identities beyond the book.

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KIENING, Christian, Martina STERCKEN (eds.), SchriftRäume. Dimensionen von Schrift zwischen Mittelalter und Moderne. Zürich, Chronos, 2008 (Medienwandel, Medienwechsel, Medien­wissen: 4). 454 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-0340-0896-9. € 35.

With examples taken from the Stiftsbibliothek Sankt Gallen, Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Museum Burg Zug, and Strauhof Zürich.

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KOCH, Walter, Inschriftenpaläographie des abendländischen Mittelalters und der früheren Neuzeit. Früh- und Hochmittelalter. Wien/München, Oldenbourg, 2007 (Oldenbourg Historische Hilfwissenschaften: 2). 263 pp. and cd-rom, ills. ISBN 978-3-702-90551-4 / 978-3-486-58189-8. € 39,80.

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KOUROUPOU, Matoula, Paul GÉHIN, Catalogue des manuscrits conservés dans la Bibliothèque du Patriarcat Œcuménique. Les manuscrits du monastère de la Panaghia de Chalki. Volume 1: Notices descriptives. Volume 2: illustrations. Turnhout, Brepols, 2008. 501, XXIII, 295 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-52578-5, 978-2-503-52928-8. € 110.

Comprises 171 monastic manuscripts written in greek from the 10th-18th centuries, nowadays preserved in Istanbul.

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[KRENN, Margit], Stunde, Tag und Jahr. Ein illuminiertes Andachtsbuch des späten Mittel­alters. Handschrift 4157 der Universitätsbibliothek Darmstadt. Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2007. 27 [242] pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-534-20807-4. € 69,90.

Facsimile with introduction of a book of hours from Bruges, ca. 1460.

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LENDINARA, Patrizia, Loredana LAZZARI, Maria Amalia D’ARONCO (eds.), Form and content of instruction in Anglo-Saxon England in the light of contemporary manuscript evidence. Papers presented at the international conference Udine, 6-8 April 2006. Turnhout, Brepols, 2007 (Textes et études du Moyen Âge: 39). xiii, 539 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-52591-4. € 89,05.

Nineteen essays on educational texts and the Insular manuscripts which have preserved them.

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OLIVER, Judith H., Singing with angels: liturgy, music, and art in the gradual of Gisela von Kerssenbrock. Turnhout, Brepols, 2007. VIII, 384 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-51680-6. € 120.

Monograph on this gradual, which was written, illuminated, annotated, paginated and decorated by a known cistercian nun at Marienbrunn near Osnabrück at the end of the 13th century.

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PANAYOTOVA, Stella, The Macclesfield Psalter. With a complete reproduction at the original size of this 14th-century prayer book in the collections of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and 95 colour details. London, Thames & Hudson, 2008. 352 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-500-23852-3. € 69,95.

Facsimile of an exeptional East Anglian psalter from the 1330’s, virtually unknown before its acquisition by the ‘Fitz’ in 2005, with introductory texts on its history and creation.

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RUST, Martha Dana, Imaginary worlds in medieval books. Exploring the manuscript matrix. New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2007. XII, 290 pp., ills. ISBN 978-1-4039-7222-4.

Explores the imaginative interactions of readers and the different systems of representation offered by the material features of their books, focusing on England and Scotland between 1400 and 1490.

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SCASE, Wendy, (ed.), Essays in manuscript geography. Vernacular manuscripts of the English West Midlands from the Conquest to the sixteenth century. Turnhout, Brepols, 2007 (Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe: 10). xii, 294 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-51695-0. € 77,95.

Examines the production and use of texts and books in relation to cultural networks in the region and beyond.

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SCHEEPSMA, Wybren, The Limburg sermons. Preaching in the medieval Low Countries at the turn of the fourteenth century. Translated by David F. Johnson. Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2008 (Brill’s series in church history: 34). XII, 486 pp., ills. ISBN 978-90-04-16969-2. € 99.

Updated translation of De Limburgse sermoenen (ca. 1300). De oudste preken in het Nederlands, published in 2005; on ms. 70 E 5 from the Royal Library at The Hague.

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SUMMIT, Jennifer, Memory’s library. Medieval books in early modern England. Chicago/London, University of Chicago Press, 2008. X, 343 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-226-78171-6. $ 35.

Argues that the medieval sources that survive in English collections are the product of a Reformation and post-Reformation struggle to redefine the past by redefining the cultural place, function, and identity of libraries.

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TEEUWEN, Mariken, & Els ROSE, Middeleeuwse Magister. Feestbundel aangeboden aan Árpád P. Orbán bij zijn emeritaat. Hilversum, Verloren, 2008 (Middeleeuwse studies en bronnen: 117). 223 pp., ills. ISBN 978-90-8704-082-6. € 25.

Festschrift containing ten articles, primarily on medieval education and scholarschip.

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THOMSON, S. Harrison, Latin bookhands of the later middle ages 1100-1500. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008. [283] pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-521-08674-5. € 35.

Digitally printed version of the 1969 edition of this famous atlas on palaeography containing 132 geographically arranged and dated specimina.

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WILLINGHAM, Elizabeth M., (ed.), Essays on the Lancelot of Yale 229. Turnhout, Brepols, 2007 (The illustrated Lancelot Prose). 135 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-51677-6. € 55.

Eleven essays on different aspects of the late 13th-century prose Lancelot fromt Northern France, housed at the Beinecke Library of Yale University.

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WINTERER, Christoph, Das Fuldaer Sakramentar in Göttingen. Benediktinische Observanz und römische Liturgie. Petersberg, Imhof, 2009 (Studien zur internationalen Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte: 70). 576 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-86568-190-4. € 122,35.

Monograph on the famous Sacramentarium of c. 975 and its surroundings; already announced in 2007, now finally available.

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ZAPKE, Susana, (ed.), Hispania vetus. Musical-liturgical manuscripts from Visigothic origins to the Franco-Roman transition (9th-12th centuries). Bilbao, Fundación BBVA, 2007. 480 pp., ills. ISBN 978-84-96515-50-5. € 62.

Contributions of nine renowned researchers on the multiple configuration of the lithurgical-musical sources in Spain, with a description of 89 manuscripts.

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Avenarius, Martin (ed.), Die Institutionenhandschrift der Sammlung Wallraf im Historischen Archiv der Stadt Köln. Faksimileedition und Kommentar. Leipzig, Eudora, 2008. 64 [+119] pp., ills., ISBN 978-3-938533-19-2. € 59.

Facsimile with introduction of an Italian manuscript of the early 12th century with the Institutiones Iustiniani.

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Beal, Peter, A dictionary of English manuscript terminology 1450-2000. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008. 457 pp., ills., ISBN 978-0-19-926544-2. $ 125 / £ 55.

Defines some 1500 terms relating to manuscripts and their production, from ‘Abbreviation’ to ‘Year Books’.

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Bradley, Jill, ‘You shall surely not die’. The concepts of sin and death as expressed in the manuscript art of Northwestern Europe, c. 800-1200. Leiden, Brill, 2008 (Library of the written word: 4). 727 pp. (2 vols.), ills., ISBN 978-90-04-16910-4. € 150.

Dissertation on changing attitudes towards death, sin and salvation, as expressed in medieval miniatures.

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Brantley, Jessica, Reading in the wilderness. Private devotion and public performance in late medieval England. Chicago/London, The University of Chicago Press, 2007. XVIII, 463 pp., ills., ISBN 978-0-226-07132-9. $ 45.

Examination of the connections between images and texts, reading and performance, in public and in private, departing from London, BL, Add. 37049, an illustrated Yorkshire carthusian miscellany of the first half of the 15th century.

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Bredow-Klaus, Isabel von, Heilsrahmen. Spirituelle Wallfahrt und Augentrug in der flämischen Buchmalerei des Spätmittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit. Zweite, unveränderte Auflage, München, Herbert Utz, 2008 (tuduv-Studien, Reihe Kunstgeschichte: 81). 478 pp., ills., ISBN 978-3-8316-0797-6. € 64.

Dissertation on pilgrims badges sown or painted in Gent-Bruges Books of Hours, 1480-1530.

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Brown, Michelle P., The Holkham Bible picture book. A facsimile. London, The British Library, 2007. 90 [+92] pp., ills., ISBN 978-0-7123-0990-5. £ 45,49.

A new facsimile with commentary of the famous Additional MS 47682, an Anglo-Norman French picture bible from London, c. 1327-1335.

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Die gotischen Handschriften der Württembergischen Landesbibliothek Stuttgart. Teil 2: Vom späten 13. bis zum frühen 15. Jahrhundert. Bearbeitet von Peter Burkhart, mit Beiträgen von Christine Sauer. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2005 (Katalog der illuminierten Handschriften der Württembergischen Landesbibliothek Stuttgart: 3). 2 vol., 414 pp., ills., ISBN 978-3-447-04900-6. € 138.

Comprises 104 manuscripts.

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Geheimnisse auf Pergament. Katalog zur Jahresausstellung in der Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen (3. Dezember 2007 - 9. November 2008). St. Gallen, Verlag am Klosterhof, 2008. 106 pp., ills., ISBN 978-3-906616-78-2. CHF 19,50.

Focusses on aspects like magic, code, riddles and ‘invisible’ script in carolingian manuscripts.

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Green, D.H., Women readers in the Middle Ages. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007 (Cambridge studies in medieval literature: 65). 296 pp., ills., ISBN 978-0-521-87942-2. $ 95.

Stresses the fact that the number of female readers (and writers!) throughout the Middle Ages was far greater than is commonly assumed, focussing on Germany, France and England.

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Gwara, Scott, A census of medieval manuscripts in South Carolina collections. Columbia, S.C., Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, 2007. 72 pp., ills., ISBN 978-0-9801256-0-3.

Catalogue of 118 manuscripts and manuscript fragments, also available as pdf.

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Heinzer, Felix, Klosterreform und mittelalterliche Buchkultur im deutschen Südwesten. Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2008 (Mittellateinische Studien und Texte: 39). 618 pp., ills., ISBN 978-90-04-16668-4. € 125.

Series of case studies dealing with the relation between monastic reform and manuscript production in southwestern Germany during the period from the 9th to the early 16th century.

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Inglis, Erik, Faces of power & piety. Los Angeles / London, The J. Paul Getty Museum / The British Library, 2008 (The medieval imagination: 2). viii, 88 pp., ills., ISBN 978-0-89236-930-0. $ 19,95.

This second volume in a series of small, affordable books that draw on manuscript illuminations in two rich collections, focuses on late medieval and Renaissance portraiture. An exhibition of the same name was on view at the JPG Museum.

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Black is beautiful. Rubens tot Dumas. [Ed. Elmer Kolfin e.a.] Tentoonstellingscatalogus. De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam. Zwolle, Waanders, 2008. 387 pp., ills., ISBN 978-90-400-8496-6. € 29,95.

Among the 132 works cited are nine illuminated medieval manuscripts.

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Signs on the edge. Space, text and margin in medieval manuscripts. Edited by Sarah Larrat Keefer and Rolf H. Bremmer Jr. Paris/Leuven/Dudley, MA, Peeters, 2007 (Mediaevalia Groningana New Series: 10). VIII, 319 p., ills., ISBN 978-90-429-1980-8. € 62.

Eleven essays devoted to specific strategies in scribal layout or prescribed authorial design, mainly observed in early insular manuscripts.

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Under the influence. The concept of influence and the study of illuminated manuscripts. Ed. by John Lowden and Alixe Bovey. Turnhout, Brepols, 2007 (Publications of the Research Centre for Illuminated Manuscripts: 1). XIII, 234 pp., ills., ISBN 978-2-503-51504-5. £ 73,34.

Papers read at the international conference held at the London Courtauld Institute of Art in July 2003; with some observations on the Utrecht Psalter.

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Marrow, James, e.a., Private pleasures. Illuminated manuscripts from Persia to Paris. The collection of Denys Spittle. Cambridge, The Fitzwilliam Museum, 2007. 77 pp., ills., ISBN 978090445478-9. £ 14,95.

Catalogue of the exhibition of the private collection of Deny Spittle (1920-2003), held 23 Oct. 2007 - 7 Jan. 2008.

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Parkes, M.B., Their hands before our eyes: a closer look at scribes. The Lyell Lectures delivered in the University of Oxford 1999. Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008. xix, 188 pp., ills., ISBN 978-0-7546-6337-9. € 72,38.

Examines different aspects of the history of handwriting, such as its function, processes and development in antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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Rauner, Erwin, Katalog der lateinischen Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München. Die Handschriften aus Augsburger Bibliotheken. Band 1: Stadtbibliothek Clm 3501-3661. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2007 (Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum Bibliothecae Monacensis. Tomus III, series nova, pars 3,1). XXXIX, 763 pp., ISBN 978-3-447-05503-1. € 118.

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Saurma-Jeltsch, Lieselotte E., Pietät und Prestige im Spätmittelalter. Die Bilder in der Historiebibel der Solothurner Familie vom Staal. Basel, Schwabe, 2008 (Veröffentlichungen der Zentralbibliothek Solothurn: 30). 431 pp., ills., ISBN 978-3-7965-2415-8. € 61,50.

Study on the iconography of the bible c. 1460 commissioned by Johann von Staal of Solothurn in the atelier of Diebold Lauber in Hagenau, Alsace-Lorraine.

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Schipke, Renate, Die lateinischen Handschriften in Quarto der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Teil 1: Ms. lat. quart. 146-406. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2007 (Kataloge der Handschriftenabteilung, herausgegeben von Eef Overgaauw. Erste Reihe: Handschriften: Band 6. Die lateinischen Handschriften in Quarto: Teil 1). 627 pp., ISBN 978-3-447-05433-1. € 128.

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Stahl, Harvey, Picturing kingship. History and painting in the Psalter of Saint Louis. University Park, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. XIV, 371 pp., ills., ISBN 978-0-271-02863-7. $ 85 / £ 61,50.

Monograph on one of the best-known albeit least studied manuscripts of the entire Middle Ages.

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Tanner, Marcus, The Raven king. Matthias Corvinus and the fate of his lost library. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2008. XX, 265 pp., ills., ISBN 980-0-300-12034-9. ₤ 19.

Lively account on this Hungarian king and of the quest to recover one of the greatest libraries in 15th-century Europe: of an estimated 2.200-2.500 volumes some 216 books have been identified.

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Thompson, Susan D., Anglo-Saxon royal diplomas. A palaeography. Woodbridge, The Boydell Press, 2006 (Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies: 6). 174 pp., ills., ISBN 1-84383-218-6. £ 45.

Traces many material aspects in the development of the 118 known presumed original royal Latin diplomas enacted in England before 1066.

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Winter, Ursula, und Kurt Heydeck, Die Manuscripta Magdeburgica der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Teil 3: Ms. Magdeb. 170-286. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2008. (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Kataloge der Handschriften­abteilung, herausgegeben von Eef Overgaauw. Erste Reihe: Handschriften. Band 4). 306 pp., ISBN 978-3-447-05463-8. € 70.

Last year, William Noel (The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore) and Reviel Netz published their book on the discovery and study of a palimpsest manuscript with texts by Archimedes: The Archimedes Codex: revealing the secrets of the world’s greatest palimpsest (London 2007; repr. 2008). There’s a translation into Dutch as well: De Archimedes codex: de geheimen van een opzienbarende palimpsest ontsluierd (Amsterdam 2007).

Will Noel now announces the release of the digital edition of the palimpsest:

Ten years ago today, a private American collector purchased the Archimedes Palimpsest. Since that time he has guided and funded the project to conserve, image, and study the manuscript. After ten years of work, involving the expertise and goodwill of an extraordinary number of people working around the world, the Archimedes Palimpsest Project has released its data. It is a historic dataset, revealing new texts from the ancient world. It is an integrated product, weaving registered images in many wavebands of light with XML transcriptions of the Archimedes and Hyperides texts that are spatially mapped to those images. It has pushed boundaries for the imaging of documents, and relied almost exclusively on current international standards. We hope that this dataset will be a persistent digital resource for the decades to come. We also hope it will be helpful as an example for others who are conducting similar work. It published under a Creative Commons 3.0 attribution license, to ensure ease of access and the potential for widespread use. A complete facsimile of the revealed palimpsested texts is available on Googlebooks as The Archimedes Palimpsest. It is hoped that this is the first of many uses to which the data will be put.

For information on the Archimedes Palimpsest Project, please visit:www.archimedespalimpsest.org.
For the dataset, please visit:www.archimedespalimpsest.net.

We have set up a discussion forum on the Archimedes Palimpsest Project. Any member can invite anybody else to join. If you want to become a member, please email: wnoel@thewalters.org.

Bibliotheek Rotterdam bezit de grootste Erasmusbibliotheek ter wereld. Meer dan 1.200 boeken in deze collectie stammen uit de 16e eeuw. In het Erasmus Center for Early Modern Studies werkt Bibliotheek Rotterdam samen met de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam.

Samen hebben zij nu 16e-eeuwse edities van de 15 belangrijkste boeken van Erasmus gedigitaliseerd, plus de Opera Omnia die kort na zijn dood (in 1536) in negen dikke delen verschenen. Het resultaat is gratis beschikbaar voor iedereen op de website van het Erasmus Center fEMS.

De gedigitaliseerde bronteksten zijn onderdeel van Erasmus Online, een bibliografische database van alle vroegmoderne uitgaven van Erasmus’ werk. Alle afzonderlijke titels-zoals Lof der Zotheid of Adagia-zijn snel en eenvoudig te vinden, bladzij voor bladzij door te bladeren en desgewenst enorm uit te vergroten. Zo is elk detail te bestuderen.
Zoeken in de teksten zelf is nog niet mogelijk. Zodra de techniek het toelaat dat scanners vroegmoderne drukletters vrijwel foutloos herkennen, worden de nu gedigitaliseerde teksten ook volledig doorzoekbaar.

1st Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
October 24-25, 2008

To be held at the Chemical Heritage Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

***Registration deadline is October 19, 2008***

Public Lecture: Friday, October 24, 6:00 pm :

“Archimedes in Bits: The Digital Presentation of a Write-Off”
William Noel, Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, The Walters Art Museum

Symposium: Saturday, October 25, 9:00 am-5:45 pm

“On the Nature of Things: Modern Perspectives on Scientific Manuscripts”

Speakers include:

Alejandro García Avilés, Universidad de Murcía
Gerhard Brey, Center for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College, London
Charles Burnett, The Warburg Institute
Marilyn Deegan, Center for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College, London
Gabriele Ferrario, Independent Scholar
Menso Folkerts, Institute for the History of Science, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
Monica Green, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Kim Plofker, Union College
Dot Porter, Digital Humanities Observatory at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
Michael Solomon, University of Pennsylvania
John Walsh, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University

For more info and registration, go to the symposium’s website.