Methods of making: palaeographical problems, codicological challenges

Invited participants met at the British Library in London on 24-25 April 2017 for the first of three workshops organised by the Insular Manuscripts Network. Summaries of discussions and further outputs are available here.

Workshop Programme

Monday 24 April 2017
10:30	ARRIVAL, COFFEE & BUNS
11:00	Welcome: Claire Breay (British Library)
11:15	Theme I: Script – origins and evolution 11:15 I.1 Jo Story: Insular MSS – project overview and key questions 11:45 I.2 Julia Crick: What does ‘Insular’ mean? 12:00 I.3 Tessa Webber: Lost manuscripts and the problem of Insular cursive minuscule 12:15 I.4 Michael Gullick: Some observations on scribes and scripts 12:30 Discussion
13:00–14:00	LUNCH
14:00–15:30	Theme II: Methods of Making 14:00 II.1 Chris Scheirer: Retrorsum Respicere: reconstructing an older relative of Kells 14:15 II.2 Tim O’Neill: Imitating the Cathach and discovering minuscule – early adventures with the edged pen 14:30 II.3 Richard Gameson: The Ceolfrith Bibles 14:45 II.4 Jiri Vnoucek: Making Insular parchment 15:00 Discussion
15:30–16:00	TEA & CAKE
16:00–17:00	Theme III: English & Irish books – provenance, movement 16:00 III.1 Rosamond McKitterick: Insular interventions in Frankish MSS in Leiden 16:15 III.2 Bernard Meehan: Irish gospel books – Macregol and BL Add. 40618 16:30 III.3 Cornel Dora & Franziska Schnoor: Insular books in St Gallen 16:45 Discussion
19:00	WORKSHOP DINNER
Tuesday 25 April 2017
9.30–12:30	Manuscript Session
12:30–14:00	LUNCH
14:00–16:00	Session IV: Discussion 14:00 Theme I: Script – Rosamond McKitterick (discussant) 14:30 Theme II: Methods of Making – Jo Story (discussant) 15:00 Theme III: Irish / English – Bernhard Zeller (discussant) 15:30 Interim conclusions and future agendas
16:00–17:00	TEA, CAKE & CLOSE