The panel planned for the 2017 Convention explores a comparably broad range of subjects. In keeping with the 2017 M-MLA Convention\u2019s theme of \u201cArtists and Activists,\u201d the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence sponsors a panel on manuscripts and printed books and the illuminators, scribes, editors, and other artists who created them and the scholars and readers who used or disseminated them. The session explores multiple subjects and approaches, including textual, art historical, codicological, and paleographical.<\/p>\n
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Our 2017 Panel<\/h3>\nMake It and\/or Break It:
\nthe Material Evidence
\nof Creating, Using, Disseminating, and Dispersing Manuscripts<\/h3>\n
\nthe Material Evidence
\nof Creating, Using, Disseminating, and Dispersing Manuscripts<\/h3>\n
Sponsored by: Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/p>\n
Organizer and Presider<\/em><\/p>\n Justin Hastings<\/strong> (Loyola University Chicago)<\/p>\n Presenters<\/em><\/p>\n 1. Laura Melin<\/strong> (University of York, United Kingdom)<\/p>\n “The Coronation Roll of Edward IV and Its Audience”<\/p>\n Abstract:<\/em><\/p>\n My paper will focus on the artwork on the Chronicle of the History of the World from Creation to Woden, with a Genealogy of Edward IV<\/em> (Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis 201), otherwise known as the \u2018Coronation Roll\u2019, to see what its content reveals about possible audiences. The Roll was commissioned circa 1461 by Edward IV<\/a>, who needed to legitimise his usurpation of the English throne from Henry VI in order to gain the support of both the English nobility and international noble (and royal) audiences. I will argue that the artists of the Coronation Roll appealed to both sets of audiences through the creative use of traditional iconographies of kingship within the genealogical format. After emphasising the common use of genealogies among the nobility, both at home and abroad, I will examine three key artistic clues within the Coronation Roll:<\/p>\n I will conclude by assessing available evidence to determine how the Roll might have been displayed for the visual consumption of his audience.<\/p>\n Note: <\/em> See the manuscript online here: Coronation Roll<\/a>, and the Arms of Edward IV here (from this manuscript<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u00a9The British Library Board. London, British Library, Royal MS 14 E. I, folio 3r, detail: Royal Arms of Edward IV.<\/p><\/div>\n 2.\u00a0 Katie Gutierrez<\/strong> (Loyola University Chicago)<\/p>\n “Native American Misrepresentation in Early America: Abstract:<\/em><\/p>\n The Native American translator and colonial government official Conrad Weiser<\/a> (1696 – 1760) is an often-overlooked figure in Early American history. As a translator for the Pennsylvanian government, Weiser occupied a unique position in both colonial America and the Iroquois nation.\u00a0 Conrad Weiser\u2019s state-sponsored travel narrative, “A journal of the proceedings of Conrad Weiser: on his journey to Ohio with a message & present from the government of Pensilvania to the Indians there, 1748 Aug. 11 – Oct. 2”, exists in four separate versions.\u00a0 By applying a critical lens to the text, this paper will illuminate the significant changes between its versions, particularly by examining the representation of the Sinicker tribe of the Iroquois nation.<\/p>\n This paper will carefully outline the variants that occur over the four versions of Weiser\u2019s travel narrative:<\/p>\n By examining these four versions simultaneously, it is evident that Conrad Weiser\u2019s interactions with Queen Scayhuhady of the Sinicker tribe were omitted in the later versions of his document, the official colonial record book and historical book of Pennsylvania. Note:<\/em>\u00a0 Images of Conrad Weiser appear to be scarce, little attested, or confected after the fact.\u00a0\u00a0 We might glimpse an old image of his tombstone and a fanciful or wishful image for tobacco purveyance, as here.<\/p>\n Tombstone of Conrad Weiser, from Morton L. Montgomery, “Life and Times of Conrad Weiser” (1893), via Wikipedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n Emblem for Conrad Weiser Cigars, manufactured in Lebanon Pennsylvania, via Wikipedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n 3.\u00a0 Mildred Budny<\/strong> (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)<\/p>\n \u201c ‘It’s amazing what you can see when you look’: Just as Yogi Berra<\/a>\u2019s catchy turns of phrase encourage, or, for that matter, require, us to think, as well as rethink, so, too, does the process of looking, and looking again (even again and again), have the power to conjure forth fresh views, insights, and understandings.\u00a0 The term \u2018conjure\u2019 here may convey some of the steps, skills, and wondrous results in that process \u2014 when it works \u2014 of close interaction between the scholar, viewer, beholder and the materials in question.<\/p>\n In this case, we consider the potential for medieval (and other) manuscripts of many kinds, dates, genres, subjects, patterns of transmission, and challenges in general or particular.\u00a0 All the more so when accomplished cumulatively, with assembled, tested, and refined expertise, whereby, fortunately and \u2018magically\u2019, the total gain is far greater than the sum of the parts.<\/p>\n This paper reports new, also cumulative and collaborative, discoveries concerning some of the vast numbers of leaves detached and dispersed from their former manuscripts by the notorious bibliophile and self-styled \u2018biblioclast\u2019 Otto F. Ege<\/a> (1888\u20121951), whose spheres of activity mostly centered upon Cleveland.\u00a0 In the past few years, as my own tasks of conservation and research regarding telling cases of those manuscript \u2018strays\u2019 or \u2018orphans\u2019, seemingly unrelated, turn out to be related powerfully in terms of linked or implicated transmission, discerned by means of discovery through expertise gathered cumulatively over the years, across a broad range of written and printed materials.<\/p>\n Our celebration of these rediscoveries may include fresh observations of materials close to Otto Ege\u2019s home base. Surprises await when we look.<\/p>\n Note:<\/em>\u00a0 Some discoveries are reported on our website, for example here:<\/p>\n Leaf 41, Recto, Top Right, in the Family Album (Set Number 3) of Otto Ege’s Portfolio of ‘Fifty Original Leaves’ (FOL). Otto Ege Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Photograph by Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n Respondent<\/em><\/p>\n 4.\u00a0 Justin Hastings<\/strong><\/p>\n “Making, Breaking, and Using Manuscripts: *****<\/p>\n More information about the Convention itself appears on its website<\/a>. Full details for the 2017 Annual Convention are now published in its Program Book<\/a>.<\/p>\n As Permanent Session 55 at the Convention, our sponsored panel will take place on Friday, 12 November 2017, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. at the Convention venue.<\/p>\n Please join us!<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cArtists, Activists, and Manuscript Evidence\u201d Research Group on Manuscript Evidence Permanent Panel at the Midwest Modern Language Association (M-MLA) 2017 Convention Cincinnati, Ohio November 9-12, 2017 Following the successful Call for Papers, we announce the program for our sponsored Panel at the 2017 Convention of the M-MLA. 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\nA Study on the Variants Presented in Conrad Weiser\u2019s Travel Narrative:
\nA Journal of the Proceedings of Conrad Weiser”<\/em><\/p>\n\n
\nI will argue for a restoration of Weiser\u2019s original 1748 travel-narrative in order to re-establish historical accuracy and to include the interactions with the Sinicker tribe omitted from later historical documents and records.\u00a0 This paper will attempt to answer questions of how and when changes were introduced to Weiser\u2019s narrative and to outline themes between each set of variants that occur, as well as their importance to a modern reader.<\/p>\n![\"Tombstone](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Life_and_times_of_Conrad_Weiser_-_the_first_representative_man_of_Berks_County_1893_14750432156-170x300.jpg\")
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\nNew Light on Old Manuscripts Dispersed by Otto Ege”<\/p>\n\n
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\nNew Looks at Material Evidence”<\/p>\n