Gold Room, Oakdale Hall, Oakdale Campus, University of Iowa

(this will be our usual seminar meeting place, except where noted below)

Welcome from Jay Semel, Director of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, and Jon Wilcox, seminar director, with introduction of Neda Barrett and other staff support

lunch in Oakdale Hall

then walk over to Oakdale Papermaking Facility

Oakdale Papermaking Facility:

further parchment preparation guided by Jesse Meyer: sanding of your personal half-skin [in a break from medieval technique, if you have one and it’s convenient to carry, please bring a hand power-sander! We’ll have a number available]

Gold Room, Oakdale Hall:

presentation on writing by Cheryl Jacobsen, writing on parchment I

discussion of essay 1

Jennifer Borland, Art, Oklahoma State University
“Unruly Reading: The Consuming Role of Touch in the Experience of a Medieval Manuscript”

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm. 1133 (12c Latin, includes illustrated Passion of Saint Margaret)

Gold Room, Oakdale Hall:

presentation on writing by Cheryl Jacobsen, writing on parchment II

discussion of essay 2

Karen Louise Jolly, History, University of Hawaii at Manoa
“(Re)Making the Book: Tenth-Century Additions to the Durham Ritual”

Durham Cathedral Library MS A.iv.19

discussion of essay 3

Patrick W. Conner, English, West Virginia University
“ Identifying and Analyzing Matched Scribal Hands with Special Attention to Exeter, Dean and Chapter MS 3501, the Exeter Book”

Conservation Lab, Main Library

bookbinding demonstrations by Gary Frost (including historical models)

6 p.m

or 6:20 p.m.

in front of Main Library for pick up

transport to my place for catered dinner (404 Linder Road NE, Iowa City, 466 9481; I’ll distribute a map for those driving)

discussion of essay 5

Elaine Treharne, English, Florida State University
“Interpreting the Architexture of Medieval Manuscripts”
Eadwine Psalter (12c): Cambridge, Trinity College, R. 17.10

discussion of essay 6

Matthew Hussey, English, Simon Fraser University, Canada
“Frankish Books and English Letters: A Case of Cultural Transmission in Eighth-Century Anglo Saxon England”
Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, M.p.th.f.79

discussion of essay 7

Constance Berman, History, The University of Iowa
“Reviewing and reassessing the evidence for changing Cistercian practice using Trent 1711: Establishing new protocols for description of manuscripts.”

discussion of essay 8

Martha Rust, English, New York University
“Lymned to His Awne Use: The Illuminated Realm of John Lacy, Book Artisan and Anchorite, in Oxford, St. John’s College Library MS 94”

discussion of essay 9

Karen Gorst, Independent Scholar, Center for Book Arts, New York
“Underneath it All” – study of parchment

view manuscripts and fragments in special collections.

See http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/mmc for some digital images of the collection.

discussion of essay 10

Tim Barrett, Center for the Book, University of Iowa
“Craftspeople in Competition - materialist readings of medieval era parchment and paper quality”

discussion of essay 11

Gary Frost, Library Conservator, University of Iowa
Medieval Bookbinding

discussion of essay 12

Elsi Vassdal Ellis, Art, Western Washington University
“The East-West, Then-Now Binding Nexus”

The Glazier Codex, or possibly the Stonyhurst Gospels

discussion of essay 13

Cheryl Jacobsen, Center for the Book, University of Iowa
Insights of a working scribe

discussion of essay 14

Jonathan Wilcox on Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 85 and 86.