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Manuscripta: A Journal for Manuscript Research

Since 1957 the Vatican Film Library has published Manuscripta, a journal devoted to research on medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. The journal features articles and book reviews on topics such as paleography, codicology, illumination, diplomatics, papyrology, epigraphy, library history, reading and literacy, manuscript cataloguing, and textual criticism.

Published twice annually          —          ISSN 0025-2603

Current subscriptions (EUR 65 per year) are available in both print and online formats from Brepols Publishers. Back issues (USD 8 per issue) for volumes 1 (1957) through 42 (1998) are available through our editorial offices.

CURRENT ISSUE : 53.1 (2009)

Articles

"Otto Ege and the Fortunes of Fragments." A Session from the Thirty-Fifth Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies (17–18 October 2008)

    A.S.G. EDWARDS
    Otto Ege: The Collector as Destroyer

    BARBARA A. SHAILOR
    Otto Ege: Portfolios vs. Leaves

    FREDERICK PORCHEDDU
    Reassembling the Leaves: Otto Ege and the Potential of Technology

SHARON M. ROWLEY
The Fourteenth-Century Glosses and Annotations in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Tanner 10

  • LAURA WILLIAMS
    Continuities at the Luxeuil Scriptorium: Merovingian to Carolingian

  • Reviews

  • Brantley, Jessica. Reading in the Wilderness: Private Devotion and Public Performance in Late Medieval England (Mary Erler)

  • Brown, Michelle P, commentary. The Holkham Bible Picture Book: A Facsimile (Gerald B. Guest)

  • DeSchryver, Antoine. The Prayer Book of Charles the Bold: A Study of a Flemish Masterpiece from the Burgundian Court (Gregory T. Clark)

  • Krause, Kathy M., and Alison Stones, eds. Gautier de Coinci: Miracles, Music, and Manuscripts (Elizabeth Morrison)

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    SUBMISSIONS

    Articles for submission and books for review should be directed to the editor. Please submit articles in both paper and electronic formats. In general matters of style, the journal follows the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. (2003).

    STAFF

    Editor
    Gregory A. Pass, Saint Louis University

    Associate Editors
    Susan L'Engle, Saint Louis University
    Kenneth B. Steinhauser, Saint Louis University

  • Book Review Editor
    Susan L'Engle, Saint Louis University

  • Advisory Board
    Jonathan J.G. Alexander, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
    Frank T. Coulson, The Ohio State University
    Albert Derolez, Universiteit Gent, Vrije Universiteit Brussel / Université Libre de Bruxelles
    Nancy van Deusen, Claremont Graduate University
    Consuelo W. Dutschke, Columbia University
    Philip Gavitt, Saint Louis University
    Charles H. Parker, Saint Louis University
    Lilian M.C. Randall, Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books Emerita, Walters Art Museum
    Albert C. Rotola, Saint Louis University
    Richard H. and Mary A. Rouse, University of California, Los Angeles
    Lucy Freeman Sandler, New York University
    Barbara A. Shailor, Yale University
     

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