My Favourite Manuscript: Free Short Talks
In these illustrated talks over two days, international and local experts will introduce a range of fascinating manuscripts selected from the exhibition.
Venue: Experimedia, State Library of Victoria
Bookings: 03 8664 7016 or bookings@slv.vic.gov.au
Cost: Free
Friday 28 March
2–2.30pm
Pacino di Bonaguida’s Florentine hymn-book
Dr Stella Panayotova, Keeper of Manuscripts and Printed Books, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Stella Panayotova discusses three miniatures from a laudario (an illuminated book of vernacular hymns), by the Florentine artist Pacino di Bonaguida (c 1330–40, on loan from the Fitzwilliam Museum).
3–3.30pm
De Musica and Micrologus: From Canterbury to Wellington
Dr Ruth Lightbourne, Curator Special Printed Collections, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mãtauranga o Aotearoa
Ruth Lightbourne discusses an English manuscript from Christ Church, Canterbury (c 1130–60, on loan from the Alexander Turnbull Library) containing two significant works of music theory, De Musica by Boethius (480–524) and Micrologus by Guido of Arezzo (11th century). She will trace the manuscript’s previous owners and how it arrived in New Zealand.
4–4.30pm
An abbot’s book of blessings
Dr Patrick Zutshi, Keeper of Manuscripts and University Archives, Cambridge University Library
Patrick Zutshi introduces the Benedictional of Robert de Clerq, a manuscript of benedictions, or blessings, made for the use of the abbot of a Cistercian monastery in Belgium (c 1520, on loan from Cambridge University Library).
Saturday 29 March
2–2.30pm
The exquisite ‘Adelaide Hours’
Dr Bronwyn Stocks, Senior Lecturer, Department of Theory of Art & Design, Monash University
Bronwyn Stocks introduces a rare example of a late medieval Italian Book of Hours (c 1375, on loan from the State Library of South Australia), an exquisite little prayer book featuring extensive illustration and exuberant decoration.
3–3.30pm
The Gregorian Man of Sorrows
Gordon Morrison, Director, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Gordon Morrison discusses the the Byzantine origins of the Gregorian Man of Sorrows, a key devotional image of the late Medieval period, using an example from a 15th-century Florentine Book of Hours (on loan from the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery’s Crouch collection).
4–4.30pm
A collaborative effort: Book printing and decorating in the 1470s
Professor David McKitterick, Fellow and Librarian, Trinity College, Cambridge
David McKitterick discusses a 15th-century illuminated manuscript copy of Expositio in somnium Scipionis (Commentary on Cicero’s dream of Scipio) by the 5th-century neo-Platonist Macrobius, which was printed in Venice by Frenchman Nicholas Jenson and features many styles of fine illumination (1472, on loan from Trinity College, Cambridge).
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