The Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles (MS Hunter 252): images, text and paratext – book launch
The Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles (MS Hunter 252): images, text and paratext – book launch
College of Arts School of Modern Languages and Cultures Stirling Maxwell Centre
Date: Thursday 20 April 2023
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Venue: Archives and Special Collections Seminar Room, University of Glasgow Library, Level 12
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Graeme Small (Durham University)
Website: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/612252934007
Stirling Maxwell Centre
Spring 2023 Seminar Series
Graeme Small (Durham university)
The University of Glasgow Library houses the only surviving manuscript copy in the world of the Burgundian answer to the Decameron, the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles, in which one hundred humorous and morally challenging tales are ascribed to named courtiers around Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy (1419-67). In this talk, occasioned by the publication of a new collaborative study of the work (including a chapter by the late Dr Peter Davies, Friend of Glasgow University Library), the focus will be on the remarkable illustrative scheme of the manuscript, the light it sheds on text-image relations, and on the affordances of manuscripts and their illumination in an age of new print technology.
The manuscript will be on display for the event.
This is a hybrid event.
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