The Emergence of Multiple Text Manuscripts

In November there will be an interesting codicological conference on manuscripts consisting of multiple different texts. While only a handful of the papers explicitly address biblical texts, this phenomenon is of great interest for the study of late antique and medieval manuscripts.


From Cécile Michel [mailto:cecile.michel@mae.cnrs.fr]
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The Emergence of Multiple Text Manuscripts
A conference at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures
Warburgstraße 26, Hamburg
9-12 November, 2016

Program and abstracts available at:
http://www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/register_mtm2016.html

Tentative Programme
Wednesday, 9 November 2016 (room 0001) 5.00 pm Registration
6:00 pm Welcome & Introduction
6.15 pm Chair: Eva Wilden, Hamburg
Nalini Balbir, Paris:
"Functions of Multiple Text Manuscripts in India: the Jain case"

8.00 pm Dinner

Thursday, 10 November 2016 (room 0001) 9.00 am Chair: Cécile Michel, Paris
Niek Veldhuis, Berkeley Multiple-Composition School Extracts from Mesopotamia
Matthieu Husson, Paris Erfurt F.377, a Late Medieval MTM in Mathematical Astronomy
10.45 am Coffee Break
11.15 am Chair: Bruno Reudenbach, Hamburg
Matthew Crawford, Melbourne The Eusebian Canon Tables as a Corpus-Organizing Paratext within the Multiple-Text Manuscript of the Fourfold Gospel
Paola Buzi, Rome The Ninth-Century Coptic Book Revolution and the Emergence of MTMs

1.00 pm Lunch

2.45 pm Chair: Christian Brockmann, Hamburg
Lara Sels, Leuven The Emergence of MTMs in Slavonic: On Mixed Content Manuscripts and Erotapokriseis
Francesca Maltomini, Florence Poetic MTMs in the Byzantine era

4.30 pm Coffee Break

5.00 pm Chair: Philippe Depreux, Hamburg
Paolo Divizia, Brno Textual Units of Transmission vs. Texts. Normalizing Apparent Anomalies and Particular Cases in Textual Transmission
Lucie Doležalová, Prague Selection, Association, and Memory: Personal MTMs in Late Medieval Bohemia

8.00 pm Dinner

Friday, 11 November 2016 (room 0001)
9.00 am Chair: Michael Friedrich, Hamburg
Donald Harper, Chicago Ephemera or illustrated multiple-text-manuscript? The case of the “Hakutaku hikai zu” 白澤避怪圖 (White Marsh diagram to repel prodigies) in Edo Japan
Imre Galambos, Cambridge Multiple Text Manuscripts from Medieval China

10.45 am Coffee Break

11.15 am Chair: Giuseppe Veltri, Hamburg
Andreas Lehnardt, Mainz Hebrew and Aramaic MTMs Discovered in Binding Fragments
Ronny Vollandt, Munich MTMs in the Judaeo- and Christian Arabic Tradition

1.00 pm Lunch

2.45 pm Chair: Sonja Brentjes, Berlin
François Déroche, Paris The Prince and the Scholar. About the Use of Miscellanies in Late Medieval Marocco
Konrad Hirschler, Berlin Composing / Editing Arabic Multiple-Text Manuscripts in the Late Medieval Period

4.30 pm Coffee Break

5.00 pm Chair: Jürgen Paul, Hamburg
Nuria Martinez de Castilla, Madrid Morisco Single Volume Libraries
Lucia Raggetti, Berlin Rolling Stones Do Gather: MS Instanbul Aya Sofya 3610 and Its Collection of Mineralogical Texts

8.00 pm Dinner

Saturday, 12 November 2016 (room 0001)
9.00 am Chair: Alessandro Bausi, Hamburg
Nikolay Dobronravin, St. Petersburg A Fluid Standard: Text Selection in the kundi Manuscript Books in Brazil
Alessandro Gori, Copenhagen Text Collections in the Arabic Manuscript Tradition of Harar: the Case of the Mawlid Collection and of šayḫ Hāšim’s al-Fatḥ al-Raḥmānī

10.45 am Coffee Break

11.15 pm Chair: Marilena Maniaci, Cassino
Alexandra Gillespie, Toronto Bookbinding as Codicology – Medieval English Manuscripts and the Case of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

Final Discussion
Discussants: Sonja Brentjes, Berlin and Marilena Maniaci, Cassino

HT Agade