Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture Volume 5 Issue 1 2015 Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture (Volume 5, Issue 1) Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/perejournal Part of the Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture Commons Recommended Citation . "Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture (Volume 5, Issue 1)." Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture 5, 1 (2015). https://digital.kenyon.edu/perejournal/vol5/iss1/7 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Art History at Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture by an authorized editor of Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. et al. Welcome It’s been some time, but we think that this marvelous double issue here was worth the wait. So, welcome to the Autumn Current Issue 2014 and Spring 2015 issues of Peregrinations: Journal of Photo­bank Medieval Art & Architecture. The first issue is devoted to how identity is signified by material and visual expressions Submission connected to one particular location, here the Flemish Low Guidelines Countries during the High Middle Ages. Edited by Elizabeth Moore Hunt and Richard A. Leson, the collection of essays Organizations touch on imagery and language from heraldry to specialized fortification reflecting a complex interaction in terms of Discoveries tradition and new expectations. Jeff Rider examines how the author of Genealogia Flandrensium comitum creates a new history from competing sources, while Bailey K. Young and Laurent Verslype investigate how the patrons of the castle of Walhain­Saint­Paul in Walloon, Brabant used very particular fortification models to signify their power. On a smaller scale, Anne E. Lester explores the weighty and diplomatic heraldic meaning of the sumptuous Coffret of John of Montmirail, an issue that arises from the Psalter for the Count of Flanders (Royal Library of Belgium MS 10607) which uses carefully heraldic shields, riders, and animals to negotiate an urban presence in Ghent. Richard A. Leson studies how the now­fragmented tomb of Robert of Cassel in Warneton reflected the ambitions of the Franco­Flemish nobility. The second issue investigates underlying themes and functions of a diverse range of material and visual culture. Laura E. Cochrane explores why and how a Carolingian Copy of Boethius’s De institutione arithmetica was used for both sacred and secular purposes. Less concrete, but just as crucial, Elisa A. Foster traces the visual culture of religious processions at Le Puy­en­Velay. Dominique Hoche then examines the appropriateness of studying medieval church wall paintings through the lens of modern graphic narratives. This issue also contains in­depth book reviews of Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery: Complete Catalogue by Katherine Eve Baker, The Bernward Gospels: Art, Memory, and the Episcopate in Medieval Germany by Eliza Garrison, and Palace of the Mind: The Cloister of Silos and Spanish Sculpture of the Twelfth Century by Mickey Abel. This issue’s Discoveries section includes accounts of re­discovered treasures (4th­century glass paten, Byzantine­era church with quatrefoil baptismal font, a Viking hoard, and a dramatic pilgrim badge), archaeological discoveries of enameled Anglo­Saxon jewelry, a 9th­century ring with an Islamic inscription from a Spanish tomb, and more. Photobank The Photobank database continues to serve as a resource for scholars and teachers. Recent Published by Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange, 2015 Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture, Vol. 5, Iss. 1 [2015] uploads include details of English parish churches. Please note that our Photobank has undergone considerable renovation and is now part of Digital Kenyon at Kenyon College. You can search by typing in a key word or name in the search box (e.g. Canterbury). The Photobank continues to grow with copyright­free images all downloadable for use in research and teaching. The Future For future issues we are actively seeking articles on any aspect of medieval art and architecture, including: long and short scholarly articles, scholarly book reviews, review articles on issues facing the field of medieval art history, interesting notes and announcements, useful website recommendations, new archeological discoveries, and recent museum acquisitions. 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Currently indexed in Directory of Open Access Journals, Project Muse, etc. It is published under Creative Commons License Attribution‐NonCommercial‐ShareAlike (CC BY‐NC‐SA). Authors will retain copyright to their own articles, but Peregrinations asks to be credited. There are no subscription costs and no postage involved. Published by Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange, 2015 Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture, Vol. 5, Iss. 1 [2015] Secular Learning and Sacred Purpose in a Carolingian Copy of Boethius’s De institutione arithmetica (Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Msc. Class. 5)1 By Laura E. Cochrane, Middle Tennessee State University Introduction Of the early medieval copies of Boethius’s De institutione arithmetica, by far the most sumptuous is a ninth-century manuscript that is presently housed in the Staatsbibliothek in Bamberg.2 (Figure 1) Unlike other versions of the treatise,3 the 1 Research for this article was funded by a Tennessee Board of Regents, Access and Diversity Grant. I presented aspects of this article in 2010 at the Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies and in 2012 at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan. 2 Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Msc. Class. 5 (Olim Ms. H. J. IV. 12). Edward Kennard Rand discussed the manuscript in A Survey of the Manuscripts of Tours (Studies in the Script of Tours 1) (Cambridge, Mass.: Publications of the Medieval Academy of America, 1929), cat. 71, pp. 131-132. Other descriptions of the manuscript appear in Wilhelm Koehler, Die Karolingischen Miniaturen; Die Schule von Tours, vol. 1 (Berlin: Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft, 1963), pp. 65-67; Percy Ernst Schramm and Florentine Mütherich, Denkmale Der Deutschen Könige und Kaiser. Ein Beitrag zur Herrschergeschichte von Karl dem Grossen Bis Friedrich II. 768-1250 (Munich: Prestel, 1981), no. 41, p. 129; Handschriften, Buchdruck um 1500 in Bamberg (Bamberg: Bernhard Schemmel, 1990), pp. 32-33; Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog Der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts, vol. I (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998), no. 204, p. 46; and Christoph Stiegmann and Matthias Wernhoff, eds., 799 - Kunst und Kultur der Karolingerzeit. Karl der Grosse und Papst Leo III in Paderborn: Katalog der Ausstellung Paderborn 1999 (Mainz: P. von Zabern, 1999), no. X.20, pp. 725-727. 3 For a checklist of manuscript copies of this text, see Michael Masi, Boethian Number Theory: A Translation of the De institutione arithmetica (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1983), pp. 58-63. 1 https://digital.kenyon.edu/perejournal/vol5/iss1/7 et al. Bamberg manuscript’s numerous diagrams are embellished with silver and gold and Figure 1 Mathematical diagram, Boethius, De institutione arithmetica, c. 845. Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Msc. Class. 5, fol. 71r. Photo: with the permission of the Bamberg Staatsbibliothek. 2 Published by Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange, 2015 Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture, Vol. 5, Iss. 1 [2015] decorated with foliage and animals.4 Also unique to the manuscript are its two full-page miniatures, one of which depicts