Hereford Conference 1996

[John Sharpe <jsharpe@scriptorium.lib.duke.edu>]

			Conference Announcement



The Scriptorium: Center for Christian Antiquities announces its second
international conference, The Bible As Book: The Earliest Printed Editions, at
Hampton Court in Herefordshire, England.  The first printed bibles, their
composition and production, is the topic of this symposium which brings together
the world's leading incunabulists.  The forum will seek to explore how the
printing press established and changed the transmission of the biblical text and
the effect this had upon upon its readership.  The new availability of the
printed Scriptures produced a revolution in its use and place in society which
culminated in the Reformation.  Appropriately, the symposium will commence at
the British Library with a reception and exhibit of rare fifteenth-century
bibles from the British Library as well as the Van Kampen Collection, with
formal sessions subsequently conducted at the Scriptorium's European Center, a
fifteenth-century estate in Herefordshire.


Programme:

Julian Martin Abad, Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid
David Daniell, University of London
Martin Davies, British Library
Elizabeth Eisenstein, Emerita, University of Michigan
Karlfried Froehlich, Princeton University
Peter J. Gumbert, Free University, the Netherlands 
Guy Bedouelle, Albertinum, Switzerland
Lotte Hellinga, British Library, presiding
Mervyn Janetta, British Library 
Anthony Kenny, British Library
Kimberly Molinari, the Scriptorium
Paul Needham, Sotheby's, New York
Adrian Offenberg, Rosenthal Library
Frederick Ratcliffe, Cambridge University
Paul Saenger, the Newberry Library
William H. Sherman, University of Maryland
David Steinmetz, Duke University
J.B. Trapp, Warburg Institute


Tentative Schedule for The Bible As Book: The Early Printed Editions 
May 29 - June 1


Wednesday, May 29			6:30-8 p.m.		Reception at
British Library
					8:30-10:30		Dinner at the
Kenilworth
										
Thursday, May 30			8:30-1:45p.m.		Coach to Hereford
								Lunch on your own
					1:45 p.m.		Bus to Hampton
Court 
					2-4 p.m.		Session I
					4-5 p.m.		Tea
					5-6:30 p.m.		Session II
					7 p.m.			Buffet Dinner
					8:30 p.m.		Bus to Hereford

Friday, May 31			8:30 a.m.		Bus to Hampton Court
					9-10:30 a.m.		Session III
					10:45-12:30 p.m.	Session IV
					12:30 p.m.		Lunch
					1:30 p.m.		Group Photograph
					2-3:30 p.m.		Session V
					4-5:30 p.m.		Session VI
					6 p.m.			Bus to Hereford
								Dinner on your
own

Saturday, June 1			9:30 a.m.		Tour of Chained
Library at
								Hereford
Cathedral
								Address by Canon
Tiller
					11-12:00 a.m.		Plenary Session
and 		
								Conference
Conclusion

Sunday, June 2			7 a.m.			Coach to Heathrow

				Tentative Daily Schedule of Sessions


Wednesday (p.m.):
	Reception: Sir Anthony Kenny and Dr. Davies
	Dinner: Sir Anthony Kenny

Thursday (p.m.):
	Session One: The Origins of Form of the Printed Bible
		1. Dr. E. Hanebutt-Benz, Gutenberg
		2. Mr. Felix Oyens, The Block Book
		3. Prof. Peter Gumbert, The Printed Book Looks Like the
Manuscript
	Tea
	Session Two: 
		1. Prof. Eberhard Koenig, Form and Text: Textual Shape as Image
		2. Dr. Paul Saenger, The Effect of Printing on the Text Format of
the Bible

Friday (a.m.):
	Session Three: The Text of the Vulgate and Polyglots: the Xvth Century
		1. Dr. Karlfried Froehlich, Xvth Century Printing and the glossa
ordinaria
		2. Dr. Paul Needham, The Variations of the Vulgate Printed int he
Xvth 			Century
		3. Dr. Ari Offenberg, Hebrew printing of the Bible inthe Xvth
Century
	Session Four: Humanists and the Bible Text
		1. Dr. Julian Martin Abad, Printing in Iberia, the Complutensian
Polyglot
		2. Prof. J.B. Trapp, Erasmus, John Colet, Henry VIII and the New
Testament
		3. Dr. Guy Beduoelle, The Bible, Printing, and the Educational
Goals of 			the Humanists
	Lunch (p.m.)
	Session Five:Translation and Reformation, pt. 1
		1. Dr. David Steinmetz, The Reformation and Books and Printing
		2. Dr. Fred Ratcliffe, XVIth Century Printing of German
Renaissance 			    Books
		3. Kimberly Molinari, The Bible in English Incunables
	Session Six: Translation and Reformation, pt. 2
		1. Dr. Mervyn Jannetta, Tyndale's Contribution to Printing
History
		2. Prof. David Daniell, Tyndale and the Earliest Printed English
Testaments
		3. Dr. William H. Sherman, XVIth-Century English Texts

Saturday (a.m.):
	Conclusion: Dr. Elizabeth Eisenstein


Cost: $200.00 or 130.00 per person.

Includes Reception on Wednesday, dinner on Thursday and lunch on Friday, plus
travel from London to Hereford, and from Hereford to Hampton Court daily.  This
price does not include accommodations or travel.  The Scriptorium can provide
information to assist you with your travel and accommodation arrangements.

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