Networks of Transmission: Histories and Practices of Collecting Medieval Manuscripts and Documents
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts Project, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
Organizer Name
Lynn Ransom
Organizer Affiliation
Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
Presider Name
Lisa Fagin Davis
Presider Affiliation
Medieval Academy of America
Paper Title 1
The Buffalo Agency: A Manuscript Network in Northern Africa (Sixteenth-Twentieth Century)
Presenter 1 Name
Paul Love
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Al Akhawayn Univ.
Paper Title 2
Visualizing the Global Movement of Manuscripts: Phillipps Manuscripts in Australian Collections
Presenter 2 Name
Toby Burrows
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Western Australia
Paper Title 3
Invisible Manuscripts: The Vast and Undiscovered Continent of Medieval Italian Manuscript Sources
Presenter 3 Name
Justine Walden
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of Toronto
Paper Title 4
The Production and Ownership of Chetham's Library MS 6711: A "Mandeville" Manuscript in Late Medieval England
Presenter 4 Name
Collin Chadwick
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. of Arizona
Start Date
11-5-2017 10:00 AM
Session Location
Sangren 1740
Description
This session will focus on the mapping of those networks of sale and purchase through which medieval manuscripts have been pursued. We will consider especially the collectors who have catalyzed this transmission across the centuries. This session – like the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts itself – is rooted in the belief that studying provenance can have dynamic and profound effects on our understanding not only of these medieval materials as objects to be bought and sold but also of their texts through mapping their circulation and reception. We particularly welcome proposals that explore the following: the role of digital technologies such as the SDBM in conducting provenance research, the relationship between institutional and private ownership of manuscripts, specific case studies of collecting practices, the transatlantic travels of medieval materials, collectors’ roles in the dispersal of libraries and the fragmentation of manuscripts, collectors and manuscript preservation, how a manuscript’s provenance history can effect its value and collectability on the rare books market, and how collectors and the act of collecting can shape and influence interpretations of manuscript evidence.
Lynn Ransom
Networks of Transmission: Histories and Practices of Collecting Medieval Manuscripts and Documents
Sangren 1740
This session will focus on the mapping of those networks of sale and purchase through which medieval manuscripts have been pursued. We will consider especially the collectors who have catalyzed this transmission across the centuries. This session – like the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts itself – is rooted in the belief that studying provenance can have dynamic and profound effects on our understanding not only of these medieval materials as objects to be bought and sold but also of their texts through mapping their circulation and reception. We particularly welcome proposals that explore the following: the role of digital technologies such as the SDBM in conducting provenance research, the relationship between institutional and private ownership of manuscripts, specific case studies of collecting practices, the transatlantic travels of medieval materials, collectors’ roles in the dispersal of libraries and the fragmentation of manuscripts, collectors and manuscript preservation, how a manuscript’s provenance history can effect its value and collectability on the rare books market, and how collectors and the act of collecting can shape and influence interpretations of manuscript evidence.
Lynn Ransom