IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 722: Studies in Manuscripts, II: The Script

Tuesday 6 July 2021, 14.15-15.45

Organiser:	N Yavuz, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Københavns Universitet
Moderator/Chair:	Suzanne Paul, Department of Manuscripts & University Archives, University of Cambridge Library
Paper 722-a	Between Text and Script: The Aesthetics of the Humanist Schriftbild of Poggio Bracciolini (Language: English) Philippa Sissis, Institut für Kunstwissenschaft und Historische Urbanistik, Technische Universität Berlin Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Language and Literature - Italian, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 722-b	Variance in Uniformity: On the Automatic Transcription of Parisian Bibles (Language: English) David Joseph Wrisley, Department of English, American University of Beirut Estelle Guéville, Louvre Abu Dhabi Index terms: Biblical Studies, Computing in Medieval Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 722-c	Manuscripts for the Masses: Student Study of a Fragmentary Antiphonarium (Language: English) Ralph Mathisen, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Liturgy, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Teaching the Middle Ages
Abstract	Research on manuscripts continues to gain prominence in the field of medieval studies. The second session will offer new approaches to the study of script from art-historical, computational and pedagogical points of view. Focusing on the image of script (SchriftBild), Sissis will discuss the place of Poggio Bracciolini's humanistic script in the cultural and artistic environment of contemporary Florence. Guéville and Wrisley will examine scribal practices in Parisian Bibles using word- and abbreviation-based automatic transcriptions. Introducing a hitherto unknown manuscript, Mathisen will consider how students can be introduced to palaeography and liturgy at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.