The Minnesota Manuscript
Research Laboratory (MMRL) is a project
of the Center for Medieval Studies (CMS) at
the UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA,
in collaboration with the
HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT
LIBRARY at Saint John’s University
in Collegeville, Minnesota.
The Laboratory’s purpose is to provide
resources on pre-modern manuscript books and
documents, for students, faculty, and other
interested individuals.
2012 Workshop on
MEDIEVAL
MANUSCRIPTS
Sunday, June 3
through Friday, June 8
The Minnesota Manuscript Research
Laboratory will hold its 8th annual
workshop, to give participants a practical,
hands-on introduction to the study of
manuscripts, at an internationally acclaimed
research institute, the Hill Museum &
Manuscript Library.
For more information, please visit:
http://cmedst.umn.edu/groups/projects.html
Facilities, accommodations,
amenities:
Teaching staff and program
developers:
The workshop sessions will be held at the
Hill Museum & Monastic Library, at Saint
John’s University and Saint John’s Abbey,
which are world-renowned for their
extensive collection of microfilm and digital
images of medieval manuscripts. Their everexpanding collection contains images of over
100,000 medieval manuscripts.
Diane Warne Anderson (Ph.D., Duke
University) teaches Latin at the University of St.
Thomas. She also has taught palaeography and
Latin at the University of Minnesota and Saint
John’s University, and was employed as a
research scholar at HMML. Her published
research includes a catalogue of the Cologne
Cathedral Library manuscripts, and a study and
edition of a classical florilegium.
ander002@umn.edu
Participants will have access to the Alcuin
Library at Saint John’s, which contains a
collection of rare printed books and
extensive research materials supporting
manuscript studies, and on the history of
religion, including many books and journals
difficult to find elsewhere in the state.
www.csbsju.edu/Libraries.htm
Ruth Mazo Karras (Ph.D., Yale University) is
Professor of History and Director of the Center
for Medieval Studies at the University of
Minnesota. Her most recent research deals with
quasi-marital unions in medieval Europe and she
has been analyzing church court records from
the criminal registers of the Archdeaconry of
Paris from 1483-1505, which include a body of
more than 1600 cases involving sexual and
matrimonial offenses.
Students will be housed in a dormitory on
the Saint John’s campus and take meals in
the campus refectory. They will also be
welcome to attend, as observers or
participants, monastic prayer services,
which continue a liturgical tradition
established early in the Middle Ages. These
services are held in Saint John’s Abbey
Church, designed by the noted architect
Marcel Breuer (1902-1981). In the evening,
they may enjoy the beautiful grounds, where
hiking, swimming and canoeing are
available.
Theresa M. Vann (Ph.D., Fordham
University) is the Joseph S. Micallef Curator of
the Malta Study Center at the Hill Museum &
Manuscript Library at Saint John's University.
She is publishing a translation of The Siege of
Rhodes and has overseen the creation of
HMML's on-line manuscript catalogue.
Matthew Z. Heintzelman (Ph.D., University
of Chicago; MLIS, University of Iowa) is
Curator for the Austria/Germany/Switzerland
Study Center and for Rare Book collections at
HMML.
He has studied late medieval
Christian-Jewish discourse in German religious
drama and the history of early printing. He
recently completed the online cataloging of the
rare printed book collections at Saint John’s
University.
Workshop objectives include:
Workshop enrollment:
 providing an orientation to the study of
medieval scripts and manuscript books
and documents;
 introducing basic skills for the
description
of
manuscripts,
the
identification of unattributed texts, and
textual editing;
 providing practice in identifying and
locating manuscripts for various research
projects;
 discussing the kinds of questions
scholars in various fields investigate by
studying manuscripts;
 introducing a set of printed and on-line
tools to help participants learn “how to
read a medieval book.”
The focus is primarily on Latin manuscripts
from antiquity to the Renaissance, including
the classical tradition, and also on manuscripts in
European vernaculars. Other languages (e.g.
Hebrew, Greek, Ge'ez etc.) can be included
based on individual interest.
This one-week workshop will in no sense
substitute for a university course in palaeography
or codicology. Instead, it will orient students to
these disciplines, help them evaluate scholarly
arguments pertaining to manuscripts presented in
books and journals, and enable them decide if
they wish to pursue further study of textual
disciplines. Students will have the opportunity to
select a “focus manuscript” to work on, which
may be in either Latin or a vernacular language.
The workshop is open to undergraduate and
graduate students from any institution as well as
to faculty, independent scholars and other
individuals interested in manuscript studies and
having a background in classics, medieval
studies or library studies.
While the workshop has been designed as a
non-credit educational opportunity, so that no
tuition is charged, University of Minnesota
students who wish to earn credit may make
arrangements through enrollment in the regular
academic year, in consultation with the Director
of the Center for Medieval Studies.
Cost
$765.00 includes workshop fee, air-conditioned
housing for five nights and all meals (three a
day) and breaks.
$509.20 includes workshop fee, and all meals
(three a day) and breaks.
$543.00 includes workshop fee, air-conditioned
housing for five nights.
$350.00 includes workshop fee only
Center for Medieval Studies
College of Liberal Arts
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
and
THE HILL MUSEUM &
MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY
________________________________________
invite you to attend the
The Minnesota Manuscript
Research Laboratory
2012 Workshop on
MEDIEVAL
MANUSCRIPTS
Funds are available to defray costs for University of
Minnesota graduate students officially registered for
the Medieval Studies minor. Other students are
encouraged to inquire about the availability of funds
from their own academic departments.
Application available
contact cmedst@umn.edu
or call (612) 626–0805 for a copy.
Review of applications begins March 15, 2012.
Applications received after that date will be
considered if space remains available.
June 5-10, 2011
Saint John’s University
Collegeville, MN