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SUMMARY:Richard and Mary Rouse History of the Book Lecture by Daniel Hobbins
DESCRIPTION:“The Origins of the Authorial Colophon in the Latin West” \nGuest Speaker: Daniel Hobbins (University of Notre Dame) \nIn the early twelfth century\, a group of translators working in Iberia began supplying their works with colophons as though they were scribes. They simply replaced the date of copy with the date of composition. Modern scholarship has studied these colophons for their value to the chronology of the translation movement\, without realizing that they represent the beginning of a new authorial practice: the colophon had moved from scribes to authors. The authorial colophon might stand as one of the most important authorial innovations of the high middle ages. Yet scholars have never paused to consider its novelty. This paper proposes a chronology for its first appearance. We find the earliest authorial colophons in the Iberian translators\, Plato of Tivoli and John of Seville\, who imitated the colophons in the Arabic works that they were translating. As we move later in time\, we encounter a different world of writing. By the twelfth century\, more authors were acting as their own scribes. As authors wrote their own works by hand\, they unconsciously absorbed the colophon into their own written practice. In so doing\, they repeated the patterns they found in scribal colophons. The case of Frère Angier may illustrate this development. By taking time to record the facts of publication\, such authors were emphasizing their own historically specific contribution. Yet they did so without any intent to innovate or any awareness of doing so. Authors found a way to make ambitious claims in the most conservative way possible. \n \nDaniel Hobbins is a historian of high and late medieval Europe\, with a particular interest in the cultural\, religious\, and intellectual history of the period from 1200 to 1500. Under this broad heading\, his research has focused on authorship\, manuscript culture\, textual transmission\, the Carthusian order\, and fifteenth-century France. \nHis book Authorship and Publicity before Print (2009) received the Jacques Barzun Prize from the American Philosophical Society. He is currently completing a book on the history and meaning of the authorial colophon. \nRSVP to attend in Royce 314\nRSVP to attend via ZOOM \n\nThe History of the Book Lecture series\, established in 1993 through the efforts of Richard and Mary Rouse\, provides an annual venue for internationally recognized authorities on medieval and Renaissance books to present their expertise at UCLA. The lecture’s focus alternates each year between medieval manuscripts and Renaissance books. The topics explored in past lectures were book and manuscript illustration\, the development of printing\, early book printers and sellers\, the book trade\, and medieval and Renaissance book and manuscript collections. \nMore information about past Richard and Mary Rouse History of the Book lectures can be found here.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/richard-mary-rouse-history-of-the-book-lecture-by-daniel-hobbins/
CATEGORIES:Rouse History of the Book Annual Lecture
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SUMMARY:Annual Richard & Mary Rouse History of the Book Lecture - POSTPONED
DESCRIPTION:Postponed — to be re-scheduled. \nIlse Sturkenboom (Art History\, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
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SUMMARY:Illustrating the Vitae patrum: The Rise of the Eremitic Ideal in Fourteenth-Century Italy
DESCRIPTION:The Annual Richard & Mary Rouse History of the Book Lecture\nIn the late third and fourth centuries\, a number of men and women from Egypt\, Palestine\, and Syria chose to make a daring break with society\, renouncing their familial claims and wealth so that they could lead a life of perfection in the desert. By withdrawing from society to the desert to undergo the ultimate test of faith\, these men and women\, known to later generations as the Desert Fathers and Mothers\, committed themselves to sacrifice\, to an exclusive reliance on God\, and to the letting-go of ego. Their lives became legends that resonated across the centuries to come. In particular\, beginning in the fourteenth century\, mendicant orders in Italy saturated the Christian devotional landscape with stories of the hermit saints\, extolling the ascetics as exemplars of an ideal piety that was worthy of emulation. \nScholars have considered how images participated in the rise of the eremitic ideal by allowing the faithful to go in eremo (into the desert); however\, they have focused primarily on wall and panel paintings\, leaving illustrated copies of the Vitae patrum unexamined. This talk sheds light on heretofore neglected illustrated copies\, which are often far more extensive in their visual narratives than the pictorial programs of wall and panel paintings\, placing particular focus on the Pierpont Morgan Library’s richly illustrated manuscript of the Vitae patrum (MS. M. 626). \nDenva Gallant (Assistant Professor\, Department of Art History\, University of Delaware) is a specialist in European medieval art and architecture\, with an emphasis on manuscript illumination and the figural arts of the Trecento. Her scholarly work explores themes of narrative\, the rise of the eremitic ideal as exemplum virtutis\, and issues of patronage in the Middle Ages. She has received a number of research fellowships including awards from Villa I Tatti\, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. Her current book project\, Illustrating the Vitae patrum: The Rise of the Eremitic Ideal in Fourteenth-Century Italy\, is the first work to examine comprehensively the Morgan Library’s richly illustrated manuscript of the VP (MS. M. 626)\, whose extraordinary illustrations comprise a singular witness to the rise of the eremitic ideal and its impact on the visual culture of late medieval Italy. \nPictured above: Anthony Abbot the Great: Scene\, guided by Satyr to Cave of Paul — Anthony Abbot the Great\, nimbed\, wearing monk’s habit\, sack slung over left shoulder\, with right hand on tau-staff\, following satyr depicted as centaur\, turning back toward him and gesturing. Both before Paul the Hermit\, wearing monk’s habit\, seated on ground\, with right hand on tau-staff and with left hand holding rosary\, before entrance to hermitage\, open door; amid trees and landscape. Scene from Jerome\, Life of Paul the Hermit. From Vitae patrum\, Italy\, Naples\, between 1350 and 1375; Morgan Library MS M.626 fol. 2v. \nApril 12 at 4:30 pm Pacific Time \nRegister here for onsite attendance in Royce 314 or online attendance on Zoom.\nPlease note that all in-person attendees are asked to wear face masks. \n 
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