THIRD ANNUAL SAINT LOUIS CONFERENCE ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES, 13-14 OCTOBER, 2006

The Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis University is pleased to announce program and registration information for the Thirty-Third Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, 13-14 October, 2006, to be held on the campus of 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 2006 will be Lilian Armstrong (Wellesley College), speaking on:

- Triumphal Processions in Italian Renaissance Book Illumination

Sessions at this year's conference will present papers on:

- Reconstructing Manuscripts: The Work of the Conservator
- Outside the Book of Hours: Alternate Forms of Devotion in Manuscript Illumination ca. 1300
- Fifteenth-Century Italian Illumination
- Script and Scriptoria
- Creating 'Flanders': The Problem of Historiography and Low Countries Manuscript Studies
- New Studies in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts

A special session sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America will present papers on

- The Bible in the Thirteenth Century: Beyond the Paris Bible

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.