IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 1232: Manuscript Materialities, Textual Connections, and Other Entanglements

Wednesday 5 July 2023, 14.15-15.45

Organiser:	Alessandro Gnasso, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
Moderator/Chair:	Alessandro Gnasso, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
Paper 1232-a	The Circulation of Historical Texts in 12th-Century England: Oxford, All Souls College, MS 36 and the Origin of Historia post Bedam (Language: English) Stanislav Mereminskiy, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1232-b	Manuscript Source and Print Copy of the 'Scanian Law': What Can Be Achieved by Studying the Materiality of Artefacts? (Language: English) Anne Ladefoged, Juridiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1232-c	The Oldest Latin-Icelandic Glossary in Its Manuscript Context (Language: English) Simonetta Battista, Dictionary of Old Norse Prose, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Københavns Universitet Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract	The three case studies in this session engage with the sometimes complex interactions between the materiality of manuscripts and the process of (re)composition of a text or compilation. Mereminskiy examines the compilation of Oxford, All Souls College, MS. 36 and situates it in the context of 12th-century historical writing, especially in Durham and some other related centres. Ladefoged approaches the manuscript used for the editio princeps of the 'Scanian Law' as a case study to advocate for the importance of material philology approaches. Battista analyses the peculiar Icelandic collection of glosses in ms. GKS 1812 4to, investigating potential connections with Latin counterparts.