Lisa Fagin Davis

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Lisa Fagin Davis (born before 1988) is an American mediaevalist, handwriting expert (codicologist) and has been the Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America since 2013 .

Life

Lisa Fagin Davis studied Medieval Studies at Brown University (Bachelor's degree in 1988) and received her doctorate from Yale University under Robert G. Babcock in 1993 (Dissertation: Epiphany at Lambach: The Evidence of the Gottschalk Antiphonary). For the dissertation on an antiphonary from the 12th century of the Lambach monastery (she also reconstructed missing content, since the manuscript was split up in the 15th century, and published a book on it in 2000) she received the Whiting Fellowship. From 1994 to 1999 she was the librarian at the Bibliotheca Schoenbergiensis in Longboat Key, Florida.

She cataloged medieval manuscripts at Yale University (as assistant to the curator of the Kniecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library from 1989 to 1993), the University of Pennsylvania (Van Pelt Library), Wellesley College , the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , the Walters Art Museum , the Boston Public Library, and several private collections. She has taught codicology at the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science (as Professor of Practice ) since 2009 and taught at the California Rare Book School at the University of California, Los Angeles .

She was a member of the EAMMS (Electronic Access to Medieval Manuscripts) project, funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and is on the advisory board of Digital Scriptorium, Fragmentarium and the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts. The EAMMS developed standards for electronic access to medieval manuscripts.

In 2016 she was co-curator of the exhibition "Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections" at Harvard University's Houghton Library , the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum .

Fonts (selection)

  • mi RG Babcock, P. Rusche: Catalog of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Kniecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, Vol. IV, Tempe, 2004
  • The Gottschalk Antiphonary: music and liturgy in twelfth-century Lambach, Cambridge University Press, 2000 (with facsimile of the known parts)
  • La Chronique Anonyme Universelle: Reading and Writing History in Fifteenth-Century France, Brepolis Publ. 2015 (translation, critical edition of a French world chronicle from the 15th century)
  • with Melissa Conway: Directory of Pre-1600 Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 109: 3, 2015, pp. 273-420 (continuation of the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 1935, 1937, by Seymour de Ricci and WJ Wilson, Supplement 1962 by CU Faye and WH Bond)
  • with JH Hamburger, WP Stoneman, A.-M. Eze, N. Netzer: Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections, McMullen Museum of Art, 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Digitized in: Gottschalk Antiphon in Fragmentarium
personal data
SURNAME Davis, Lisa Fagin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American medievalist and codicologist
DATE OF BIRTH before 1988