The Liber Nemrod, an Arabic Library, and the First French Royal Psalters

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Early Book Society; Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (IRHT)

Organizer Name

Martha W. Driver, Patricia Stirnemann

Organizer Affiliation

Pace Univ., IRHT-Paris

Presider Name

Martha W. Driver

Paper Title 1

The Liber Nemrod de astronomia: A Very Rare Transcultural Witness to the Syriac Measurement of the Cosmos

Presenter 1 Name

Isabelle Draelants

Presenter 1 Affiliation

IRHT-Paris

Paper Title 2

The Pilot Project for the Library of Mohamed Tahar in Timbuktu

Presenter 2 Name

Muriel Roiland

Presenter 2 Affiliation

IRHT-Paris

Paper Title 3

A Family Affair: The Ingeborg Psalter and the Psalter of Blanche de Castile

Presenter 3 Name

Patricia Stirnemann

Start Date

12-5-2017 10:00 AM

Session Location

Schneider 1245

Description

The IRHT has collaborated with EBS at Kalamazoo for over twenty years, presenting discoveries in French scholarship on manuscripts written in medieval languages from around the Mediterranean Basin. Papers have included contributions to philology, textual and library history, diplomatics, paleography, and the history of illumination.

Martha W. Driver