The Manuscript Studies Conference at St. Louis University, which was held on October 12 and 13, 2012, has been organized by the Vatican Film Library and its journal, Manuscripta, since 1974, and is the only conference in North America dedicated strictly to manuscript topics. The two-day program offers sessions on a variety of themes relating to paleography, codicology, illumination, book production, library history, manuscript cataloging, and much more. Suggestions for papers and sessions are always welcome, and specific submissions can be made through the annual call for papers.
This year’s “Lowrie J. Daly, S.J., Memorial Lecture on Manuscript Studies” by David Ganz was on “The Importance of Half Uncial Script.” Topics of the conference’s eight sessions included paleography, new discoveries in Armenian manuscripts, fragments and the fragmenting of manuscripts, “writing the scribe.” Two presentations in the session “Work in Progress” assessed “Manuscript Access in a Digital Age” and the “Digital Scriptorium Today and Tomorrow.”
Source: Website of the St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies
