Conferencia: "La ley “iluminada”. Del texto a la imagen en los manuscritos jurídicos iluminados".

Ens plau anunciar-vos que el proper divendres, dia 3 de febrer, a les 11:30h., se celebrarà la taula de debat, organitzada pel Departament de Ciències Històriques – Estudis Medievals de la Institució Milà i Fontanals (CSIC, Barcelona), en què la Dra. Marta Pavón Ramírez (Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales, Roma) impartirà la conferència titulada La ley “iluminada”. Del texto a la imagen en los manuscritos jurídicos iluminados.

La sessió tindrà lloc a la Sala d’actes de la Delegació del CSIC a Catalunya (c/ Egipcíaques, 15, Barcelona).

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Novedad editorial: Lloyd-Morgan, C. "An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from Chaucer to Henry VIII ".

An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from Chaucer to Henry VIII.
Welsh Manuscripts and English Manuscripts in Wales
C. Lloyd-Morgan

This is the sixth volume in a continuing series of publications listing and identifying all illustrations contained in English manuscripts from the time of Chaucer to Henry VIII. This was an important period in the history of book production in Britain, and the range of subject-matter illustrated is of significance to historians of art, religion, literature, costume, natural science, and social custom. The present volume extends the survey to Wales and catalogues not only English manuscripts in Welsh collections but also Welsh manuscripts, including those held outside Wales. The catalogue contains entries for 128 manuscripts and notes the subject-matter of every illustration in each manuscript, from full-page miniatures and historiated initials to marginalia, added drawings and nota bene signs. A comprehensive index of pictorial subjects provides readers with complete references to the visual material with thematic groupings making the following categories easily accessible: animals, architecture, birds, Christ, containers, costume, furniture, kings, musical instruments, occupations/professions, plants, saints, tools, Virgin Mary, weapons, and women. The volume also inclids a user’s guide, an extensive glossary of subjects and terms, including Welsh terms, and indexes of authors/texts and of manuscripts with coats of arms.

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Novedad editorial: VV.AA. "Medieval Manuscripts, Their Makers and Users".

Medieval Manuscripts, Their Makers and Users
A Special Issue of Viator in Honor of Richard and Mary Rouse.
Turnhout Brepols Publishers.

The patronage, making, preservation, and use of medieval manuscripts across cultures and across the centuries: essays by eminent scholars in the field of manuscript studies.

The essays in this collection pertain to art history, medieval Latin culture both ecclesiastic and legal, the history of vernacular literatures, and the devotional practices of the laity. They reflect the patronage of authors and manuscript painters, from the royal through the monastic to the urban middle class, and they trace the sometimes astonishing afterlife of manuscripts. The subject matter of these studies ranges chronologically from late antiquity to the later Middle Ages, adding the emergent medievalism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Its geographic breadth extends through the major Western cultures and literatures, from England to Italy, Germany, and France. Its wide range in time and space reflects the lifetime of manuscript research, teaching, and collecting by its honorees, Richard and Mary Rouse.

A particular emphasis distinguishes this volume from other such collections: its stress on the use, and usefulness, of medieval manuscripts in the teaching of most historical disciplines in Western culture, from the broad undergraduate survey (of art, literature, history) to the specialized graduate seminar. In the last half century, public colleges and universities have increasingly appreciated the pedagogical opportunities inherent in building, through gift and purchase, collections of medieval manuscripts, formerly thought to be the province only of wealthy private schools. No similar collection of manuscript studies exhibits so clearly the role of medieval manuscripts in teaching.

The specialist authors represented in this volume have displayed, over the whole of their careers, an ability to combine the highest caliber of research with an eagerness to make their subject accessible to others through teaching and writing and public lectures. The essays offer the results of new and sometimes technical research, set forth in a manner intelligible not only to the expert but to the interested amateur.

Table of Contents

MANUSCRIPT TEXT AND IMAGE

Keith Busby, “Text and Image in the Getty Tristan, Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, MS Ludwig XV, 5”
Anne D. Hedeman, “Laurent de Premierfait and the Visualization of Antiquity”
Susan L’Engle, “The Pro-active Reader: Learning to Learn the Law”
Elizabeth Morrison, “Linking Ancient Troy and Medieval France: Illuminations of an Early Copy of the Roman de Troie”

TEXUAL STUDIES

François Avril, “Jean le Noir et Saint-Martin-des-Champs”
François Dolbeau, “La bibliothèque des Dominicains de Bâle au XVe siècle: fragment inédit d'un catalogue alphabétique”
Bonnie Effros, “Writing History from Manuscript and Artifact: Building an Object-Based Narrative of the Middle Ages in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France”
Stacey Graham, “The Transmission of North African Texts to Europe in Late Antiquity”
Laura Light, “Non-biblical Texts in Thirteenth-Century Bibles”
Patricia Stirnemann, “Private Libraries Privately Made”

MEDIEVAL ENGLAND

A. I. Doyle, “William Darker: the Work of an English Carthusian Scribe”
Ralph Hanna, “Dan Michel of Northgate and His Books”
Anne Hudson, “Books and Their Survival: the Case of English Manuscripts of Wyclif’s Latin Works”
Margaret Lamont, “‘Genealogical’ History and the English Roll”

ITALIAN HISTORY AND HUMANISM

Carrie E. Beneš, “Noble & Most Ancient: Catalogues of City Foundation in Fourteenth-Century Italy”
Peter Kidd, “UCLA Rouse MS 32: The Provenance of a Dismembered Italian Illuminated Book of Hours Illuminated by the Master of the Brussels Initials”

POSTSCRIPT

Sandra Hindman, “The Richard and Mary Rouse Collection of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles”
Bibliography of Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse


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Congreso: "Insular Books: Vernacular Miscellanies in Late Medieval Britain".

* Call for papers *

Insular Books:
Vernacular Miscellanies in Late Medieval Britain
The British Academy, 21-23 June 2012
Organizers: Dr Raluca Radulescu (Bangor University: r.radulescu@bangor.ac.uk), and Dr Margaret Connolly (University of St Andrews; mc29@st-andrews.ac.uk).

Funded and hosted by the British Academy, this conference brings a new and multi-disciplinary focus to the late medieval miscellany, a little-investigated and poorly understood type of manuscript. The main aim of the conference is to foster academic interest in vernacular manuscript miscellanies from the period 1300-1550 written in a mixture of medieval languages (English, Anglo-Norman, Welsh, Scots). Attention will be paid to the interactions between literary and non-literary texts in miscellanies, and to evidence of exchange between different communities, including dialogue across the Welsh and Scottish borders. A main objective is to achieve agreement in the area of taxonomy; at present there is no agreed definition of the medieval miscellany, which is treated variously by specialists in different disciplines and by cataloguers. The discussion will thus address four main inter-related concerns:
•how to achieve a definition for the miscellany which distinguishes it from other mixed-content manuscripts (anthologies, collections, composite volumes);
•how to make manuscript miscellanies and their textual contents accessible to modern readers, including scholars, students, archivists, and general readers;
•how to develop a coherent scholarly methodology for dealing with volumes whose contents are intrinsically multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary;
•how to understand and represent the complex relationships between manuscript miscellanies.

The list of confirmed speakers includes: Prof. Derek Pearsall, Dr Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan (Universities of Cardiff and Bangor), Prof. Wendy Scase (University of Birmingham), Dr Helen Deeming (Royal Holloway, University of London), Prof. Ad Putter (University of Bristol), Prof. Diane Watt (Surrey University), Dr Sue Niebrzydowski (Bangor University), Dr Phillipa Hardman (University of Reading), Dr Marianne Ailes (University of Bristol), Dr Tony Hunt (St Peter’s College, Oxford), Dr Dafydd Johnston (Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth), Dr Anne Parry (Aberystwyth University), Dr Sara Elin Roberts (Bangor University), Dr William Marx (University of Wales, Trinity St David’s), Dr Carrie Griffin (Queen Mary University of London), Dr Andrew Taylor (Ottawa University), Dr Carol Meale (University of Bristol), Dr Deborah Youngs (Swansea University), Dr Katherine Olson (Bangor University), as well as the two co-organizers.

Proposals for 20-minute papers that focus on any of the four areas of interest outlined above are welcomed. Although the original deadline was 31 December, 2011, the organizers would still be sympathetic to expressions of interest in January 2012. Please send an abstract (maximum 150 words) to either organizer. It is hoped that small bursaries (to cover the registration fee) may be made available to doctoral students and early career researchers in financial need.

Nueva web/proyecto: Manuscripts Online.

Manuscripts Online will enable users to search an enormous body of online primary resources relating to written and early printed culture in Britain during the period 1000 to 1500.

A single search engine will enable users to undertake sophisticated full-text searching of literary manuscripts, historical documents and early printed books which are located on websites owned by libraries, archives, universities and publishers. Users will be able to search the resources by keyword, but also by specific keyword types, such as person and place name, date and language (eg. Middle English, Latin and Anglo-Norman), thanks to techniques which we are using called automated entity recognition. Additionally, users will be able to visualise search results using maps of medieval Britain and create their own annotations to the data for public consumption, thereby building a knowledge base around this critical mass of primary source data.

Automated entity recognition is a Natural Language Processing technique within information science whereby algorithms are able to intelligently identify the occurrences of specific types of words, such as names, concepts and terminology, using three methods: dictionaries (such as a historical gazetteer of place names), lexical pattern matching and syntactic context.

Manuscripts Online will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of medieval English language, literature and history and it will become a sister site to the JISC-funded Connected Histories website (http://www.connectedhistories.org) which already provides similar search services for the period 1500-1900.

Credits

Manuscripts Online is funded by the JISC and supported by the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield and specialists in medieval studies at the universities of Leicester, Birmingham, Glasgow, York and Queen’s University Belfast.

Project Team

Michael Pidd (Project Director; Univ. of Sheffield)
Orietta Da Rold (Project Director; Univ. of Leicester)
Sharon Howard (Project Manager; Univ. of Sheffield)
Katherine Rogers (Chief Technical Developer; Univ. of Sheffield)
Linne Mooney (Editorial Board; Univ. of York)
Wendy Scase (Editorial Board; Univ. of Birmingham)
Jeremy Smith (Editorial Board; Univ. Glasgow)
Estelle Stubbs (Editorial Board; Univ. of Sheffield)
John Thompson (Editorial Board; Queen’s University Belfast)

More information about Manuscripts Online will be found at http://www.manuscriptsonline.org.

Nueva web: Special Collections of the University Library of Utrecht.

In December 2011 the Special Collections of the University Library of Utrecht launched its new website. It gives information about the collection in Dutch and English, and includes more than 4000 digitized items (manuscripts, printed works and maps). One of these digitized items is the Pontifical of St Mary’s (Ms. 400), illuminated around 1450 by the Master of Catharine of Cleves. It is presented with a detailed discussion of the manuscript, which incorporates the latest iconographic research by Sophia Rochmes (University of California, Santa Barbara). Up to now, 25 of the about 700 medieval manuscripts in the collection have been digitized, some of which are described under ‘From the treasury’ and ‘Recently digitized.’ Both headings will be frequently supplemented by new digitized works.

The URL of the new website is http://bc.library.uu.nl/.

Dr. Bart Jaski, Keeper of Manuscripts and Curator of Printed Books.

Novedad editorial: Castro, A. "Colección Diplomática Altomedieval de Galicia I. Documentación editada en escritura visigótica".

Colección diplomática altomedieval de Galicia I:
Documentación editada en escritura visigótica (662-1234).
A. Castro Correa, Investigador, Seminario de Paleografía, Diplomática y Codicología, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.


"Galicia é probablemente unha das comunidades autónomas que conta cun maior número de documentos conservados para o período medieval do noso país. Con todo, estes fondos non mereceron aínda a mesma atención que os conservados para outras zonas, polo que o volume de documentación inédita é alto e o de editada insuficiente, impedíndonos así tanto poder contar con toda a información histórica dispoñible que achegan estas fontes manuscritas coma realizar un estudo en profundidade da evolución dos tipos escriturarios na nosa terra.
Poder recompilar nunha única publicación homoxénea todos os documentos medievais galegos conservados, tanto os xa coñecidos coma aqueles que permaneceron aínda sen estudar, é unha tarefa inxente que se ha de facer pouco a pouco, contando coa dificultade da gran dispersión das fontes xa localizadas entre arquivos galegos, nacionais e estranxeiros, ademais das coleccións particulares. Este traballo é así un primeiro paso que, partindo sobre todo das coleccións diplomáticas coas que xa contamos, tenta reunir a produción documental altomedieval en escritura visigótica da nosa terra. Un primeiro paso que recolle os pasos anteriores para poder avanzar".

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