Conférence - A Book of Psalms from Eleventh-Century Constantinople

On the Complex of Texts and Images in Vat. gr. 752
An Ars edendi Workshop

Rome, 11-12 June 2012

11 June – Swedish Institute at Rome, Via Omero, 14

16:00-17:00 Introduction
– Introduction to Ars edendi
Gunilla Iversen, Programme director

– Sweden and the Vatican Collections
Mons. Cesare Pasini, Prefect of the Vatican Library

– The Object and its Issues: Towards a Multi-Level Publication of MS Vat. gr. 752
Barbara Crostini, Stockholm

– The Illustration of Vat. gr. 752
Glenn Peers, Austin Texas

17:30-18:00 Break

18:00-19:30 Art Historical Papers

1. Observations on Pictorial Contents and Strategies
Mati Meyer, Jerusalem

2. Court Culture in Vat. gr. 752
Cecily Hilsdale, Montreal

3. The Music of Psalms and the Voice of the Church
Maja Kominko, London

19:30-20:30 Musical Aperitif in the Institute’s Garden

12 June – Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, Via Paolo VI, 25 - Aula Minor

9:00-10:45 Part I. Psalters and Manuscripts

1. David and Christ Sing the Psalms: the Psalter as Prophecy and Liturgy
Susan Gillingham, Oxford

2. Cum Davide versari: the Psalter as Acquired Self-Expression
Erik Varden, Sant’Anselmo

3. Eleventh-Century Stoudite Monasticism: Patriarch Alexios and Niketas Stethatos
Dirk Krausmueller, Mardin

10:45-11.30 Break

11.30–13.15

1. The Codicological Structure, Script and Mise-en-Page of MS Vat. gr. 752
Francesco D’Aiuto, Roma

2. The Dedicatory Poem of Vat. gr. 752
Augusta Acconcia Longo, Roma

3. Prefatory Matter in Vat. gr. 752
Georgi Parpulov, Oxford

4. Vat. gr. 752 and Vat. gr. 1927: Related Manuscripts?
Nicolette Trahoulia, Athens

13.30-14.30 Lunch at the Istituto Suore di S. Maria Bambina

14:30-16.30 Part II. The text of 752: Psalms and Catena Commentary

1. The Type XXII Catena and its Witnesses in Light of Earlier Tradition
Reinhardt Ceulemans, Leuven and Göttingen

2. Hesychius as Preacher and Exegete
Sever Voicu, Vatican Library

3. The Mise-en-Page of Hesychius’ Commentaries
Maria Antonietta Barbara, Messina

4. Hesychius in Latin Tradition
Stefano Tampellini, Bologna

Conclusions
Timothy Janz, Vatican Library and Ars edendi Advisory Board