35TH ANNUAL SAINT LOUIS CONFERENCE ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES

17-18 OCTOBER 2008

The Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis University and its journal, "Manuscripta," are pleased to announce program and registration information for the Thirty-Fifth Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, 17-18 October 2008, to be held at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. This annual conference features papers on medieval and Renaissance manuscript studies,= including topics such as paleography, codicology, illumination, book production, library history, reading & literacy, textual criticism, and manuscript cataloguing.

Guest Speaker:

VIRGINIA BROWN
Center for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

Conference sessions on the following themes:

- Maps and Diagrams of the Holy Land in Manuscripts: Graphic Presentations of Sacred Space
- Glossing across the Medieval School Curriculum
- Paleography and Manuscripts of the Early Middle Ages
- Manuscripts and Memory
- Production and Transmission of Medieval Musical Manuscripts
- German Vernacular Manuscripts
- Otto Ege and the Fortunes of Fragments

Program, registration, and hotel information for the conference available at http://www.slu.edu/libraries/vfl/conference.