Virgil in Virgil: Representations of the Poet in the Bodleian Georgics MS Rawl. G. 98
By Alden Smith
This paper will consider the representation of Virgil portrayed in the historiated initials in an Italian-school manuscript of the Georgics housed in the Bodleian Library (MS Rawl. G. 98: fol. 05r, 19r; 34r; 49v). That manuscript, which Conington regards as of minor importance to the textual tradition (Conington/Nettleship [1979] cxv), contains superb historiated initials of Virgil wrought by the Master of the Vitae Imperatorum (fl. 1430), who ranks among the finest of manuscript illustrators (cf. Pächt [1948] 17).
Performative Devotion and ductus in the Illustrations of Cambridge: Trinity College MS R.14.5
By Thomas Meacham
The Cambridge: Trinity College MS R.14.5 contains fourteen semi-grisaille illustrations that represent scenes from Liber apologeticus de omni statu humane naturae, a morality play by Thomas Chaundler (c. 1460) that directly follows the illustrations in the manuscript. Each illustration has several lines of rubrication underneath that are not merely descriptive of the action in the scene that is being depicted, but are also performative for the potential readers/viewers of the illustrations.
Visualizing Horace in Medieval Europe: Reading between Commentary and Text
By Ariane S. Schwartz
This paper argues, through case studies of three medieval manuscripts (St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 864; Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Latin 7980; Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 88), that the presence and absence of marginal and interlinear commentary material predetermines how Horace’s text was read in the Middle Ages. Horace was widely read and copied in the Middle Ages and Renaissance; about 850 manuscripts of Horace’s works survive from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries (Friis-Jensen, 2007).
'Laying it on the Line': Layout and Diagrammatic Notation in an Eleventh-Century Rhetorical Manuscript of Cicero (Oxford Bod. Laud Lat. 49)
By Irene A. O'Daly
My research, conducted as part of the project 'Turning Over a New Leaf: Manuscript Innovation in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance' (Leiden University, Netherlands http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucas/turning-over-a-new-leaf/), broadly focuses on the role of schematic diagrams in Ciceronian rhetorical manuscripts dating from the eleventh and twelfth centuries.