Manuscripts and Books Unbound: Identification and Recovery of Fragments

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Early Book Society

Organizer Name

Martha W. Driver

Organizer Affiliation

Pace Univ.

Presider Name

Michael Johnston

Presider Affiliation

Purdue Univ.

Paper Title 1

Unbound Early Medieval Drawings in an Eleventh-Century Palimpsest

Presenter 1 Name

Ludovico V. Geymonat

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Notre Dame

Paper Title 2

Almost at a Loss: Saving Peniarth 20’s Poetical Triads

Presenter 2 Name

Brian Cook

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Mississippi

Paper Title 3

Middle English Verse in Unlikely Places: Discovering a Chanson d'Aventure at Saint Mary's College

Presenter 3 Name

Sarah Noonan

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Saint Mary’s College

Paper Title 4

Elias Bouhéreau's Books Unbound: A Study of Fragments Found in Bouhéreau's Books in Marsh's Library, Dublin

Presenter 4 Name

Niamh Pattwell

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. College Dublin

Start Date

11-5-2017 3:30 PM

Session Location

Sangren 1750

Description

Fragments attest to works otherwise unknown or lost, or they supply evidence of previously unknown or recorded texts. This wide-ranging session will open with a consideration of 11c drawings in palimpsest, the recovery of a Welsh text previously thought unreadable, a ME verse chanson d’aventure copied into a 1490 imprint, and the fragments found in books owned by Elias Bouhéreau, an early modern collector whose entire collection is housed in Marsh’s Library, Dublin.

Martha W. Driver