IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1126: Materiality of Manuscripts, II: Production of the Medieval Book
Wednesday 3 July 2019, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Københavns Universitet |
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| Organisers: | Katarzyna Anna Kapitan, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Københavns Universitet N Yavuz, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Københavns Universitet |
| Moderator/Chair: | N Yavuz, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Københavns Universitet |
| Paper 1126-a | Shining Light on the Past: Pigments in Medieval Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Science |
| Paper 1126-b | A Low German Fragment of Saint Birgitta's Revelaciones in the Arnamagnæan Collection (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1126-c | The Quire Signatures of the Codex Holmiensis D 3 (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1126-d | Same Manuscript, Different Reading: The Making and Remaking of a Saga Book (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | Bringing together scholars working in diverse fields of medieval studies, these four sessions explore the manuscript book as an artefact and consider texts as material objects shaped and reshaped through human agency. The second session focuses on different aspects of the production of manuscripts in different languages and places. Garner showcases findings of non-invasive spectroscopic chemical analysis undertaken by Team Pigment from Durham and Northumbria Universities on the York Gospels, thought to have been made in Canterbury scriptoria around the year 1020. Examining the material characteristics of Copenhagen, AM 79 II α 8vo, a single damaged leaf reused as cover for another manuscript, Lorenz speculates on how the original codex might have been, where, and for whom it was produced and how it ended up in the Arnamagnæan Collection. Backman discusses the quire structure of a late 15th-century manuscript, Stockholm, Holm. D 3, and what the conflicting quire signatures mean with regard to the reproduction of the codex.Examining the physical features of Reykjavík, AM 395 fol. with a focus on its production as well as the later additions to the volume, Kapitan considers how the younger paratextual features influence the manuscript as a whole and change the reading of the texts in the volume. |