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 freely 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

Participants in Workshop 1

Jo Story Leicester
Claire Breay British Library
Bernard Meehan Trinity College Dublin
Dáibhí Ó Cróinín National University of Ireland, Galway
Charlotte Denoel Bibliothèque nationale de France
Bernhard Zeller Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Vienna
Rosamond McKitterick Cambridge
David Ganz Independent, MGH corresponding member
Michael Gullick Independent

10. Tim O’Neill Independent

11. Richard Gameson Durham

12. Jiri Vnoucek Royal Library, Copenhagen / York

13. Julia Crick King’s College London

14. Coleen Curran Oxford

15. Tessa Webber Cambridge

16. Cornel Dora St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek

17. Franziska Schnoor St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek

18. Chris Scheirer Notre Dame University

19. Rebecca Lawton Leicester / British Library

20. Pragya Vohra Leicester

21. Alison Hudson British Library

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Franco-Saxon manuscripts in the ninth century

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