Layers of Parchment, Layers of Time:
Reconstructing Manuscripts: 800 - 1600
An Interdisciplinary Symposium,
23 June 2017, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge
Symposium Schedule
Friday 23 June:
8.30 – 9.00: Registration and Welcome – Nihon Room, Pembroke College
9.00 – 9.10: Opening Remarks
9.10 – 10.30: Panel No.1 ‘Collectors and their Appetites’
~ 9.10 – 9.30 - Nicholas Herman (University of Pennsylvania), (Fr)enemies of Books:
The Obsessive Grangerization of John Frederick Lewis
~ 9.30 – 9.50 - Damien Kempf (University of Liverpool), Collector and Vandal:
Private Collectors and the Fragmentation of Medieval Manuscripts
~ 9.50 – 10.10 - Stephanie Azzarello (University of Cambridge), Sold to the Highest
Bidder: Manuscript Mutilation and the Auctions of Abate Luigi Celotti and William
Young Ottley
~ 10.10 – 10.30 – Q&A/Discussion
10.30 – 10.50: Tea & Coffee (provided for all)
10.50 – 12.10: Panel No. 2 ‘Technical Approaches’
~ 10.50 – 11.10 - Karen Winslow (Trinity College Dublin), The Life, Death, and
Rebirth of a Book of Hours once owned by Sir Alfred Chester Beatty
~ 11.10 – 11.30 - Andrew Dunning (British Library), New and Old Imagery in
Reconstructing Burnt Anglo-Saxon Fragments in the Cotton Collection
~ 11.30 – 11.50 - Spike Bucklow (Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge),
Layers of Illumination
~ 11.50 – 12.10 – Q&A/Discussion
12.10 – 1.20: Lunch (provided for all)
1.20 – 2.00 – ‘Fragments: Care, Conservation, and Cataloguing’
~ Suzanne Paul (University Library, University of Cambridge), Offcuts and Offsets:
Making Sense of the Fragments in Cambridge University Library
~ Edward Cheese (Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge)
2.00 – 3.00 – Round Table ‘The Micro to the Macro – Large-Scale Reconstruction
Projects’
~ Katharina Kaska (Austrian National Library), A Library within a Library:
Fragments from the Benedictine monastery of Mondsee
~ William Duba (University of Fribourg (Switzerland)), Virtual Manuscript
Reconstruction and the Fragmentarium Project
~ Ruth Mullett and Nigel Palmer (Cornell University and University of Oxford),
Manuscript Fragments and their Host Volumes: Questions Arising from the Oxford
Project to Catalogue in situ Manuscript Fragments in Incunabula
~ Lisa Fagin Davis (Medieval Academy of America), Meanwhile in America…
3.00 – 3.30: Tea & Coffee (provided for all)
3.30 – 4.50: Panel No. 3 ‘Text(s) and Contexts’
~ 3.30 – 3.50 - Lieve De Kesel (Ghent University), Manuscripts from Philip the Good
and for the First
Tudor King Henry VII Amended by the Same Group of Artists
~ 3.50 – 4.10 - Beeke Stegmann (University of Copenhagen), Like Parchment, Like
Paper? Rearranging Medieval Icelandic Manuscripts for Scholarly Purposes
~ 4.10 – 4.30 - Rebecca Pope (University of Kent), A Constellation of Texts: Towards
a New Methodology for Constructing Textual Communities of Fifteenth-Century
Romance
~ 4.30 – 4.50 – Q&A/Discussion
4.50 – 5.00 – Short Break
5.00 – 6.15 – Keynote – David Rundle (University of Essex/University of Oxford)
6.15 – 6.30 – Closing Remarks
7.00 – Informal (optional) dinner for Keynote, speakers, and attendees
Pembroke College
Cambridge