Journée d’étude – Seeing the author at work: challenges of editing an autograph

Seeing the author at work: challenges of editing an autograph Although autograph manuscripts of the Middle Ages are potentially an important source of information about an author at work and the genesis of his/her text, these aspects have not yet been sufficiently studied because of a lack of adequate editing techniques.

This round table wants to address the following questions: how must a medieval autograph precisely be defined, and what types of autograph can be distinguished? What can we learn from medieval autographs with respect to the circumstances in which they were produced, the way in which the author’s text or translation was created and what choices the author made (syntactically, lexically)? What specific edition methods are necessary to provide the modern reader/researcher with the necessary elements that can grasp these aspects? Can modern techniques help us in this?

Programme :

10.30 : Opening

10.40 : Olivier Delsaux (FRS-FNRS – UC Louvain) – What is a Medieval Autograph Manuscript ? Definition and Typology in Text, Codex and Context

11.30 : Tania Van Hemelryck (FRS-FNRS – UC Louvain) – A Companion to the Study of Middle French Autograph Manuscripts. The Research Opportunities

Lunch

14.00 : Luc De Coninck (KU Leuven) en Shari Boodts (KU Leuven) – Une collection d’extraits qui devient un commentaire, une copie devenant un autographe: l’Expositio Augustiniana in epistolas beati Pauli de Florus de Lyon

14.50 : Michèle Goyens (KU Leuven) en Françoise Guichard-Tesson (KU Leuven) – Editing a translation of a translation : the challenge of Evrart de Conty’s “Problemes”

15.40 : Anne Schoysman (Università di Siena) – Éditer un brouillon de chronique autographe de 1507: la chronique de Jean Lemaire de Belges

16.30 : Dirk Van Hulle (U Antwerpen) – Modern Manuscripts and the Challenges of Digital Genetic Editing

Chair: Michèle Goyens

Abstracts : here

Informations pratiques :

Monday 24 March 2014, 10:30 AM—5:30 PM

Venue: Museumzaal Mgr. Sencie Institute MSI 02.08, Erasmusplein 2, 3000 Leuven

Participation is free, but registration is required before 20 March 2014

lectio@kuleuven.be

Organisation : Michèle Goyens, Marleen Reynders

Source de l’information : KULeuven – Lectio