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David Gura

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David Gura
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Rare Books and Special Collections
102 Hesburgh Library
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556

(574) 631-6489
dgura@nd.edu

Subject Expertise

About Me

Education

B.A., M.A., Ph.D. in Greek and Latin, The Ohio State University.

Current Research Interests

Commentaries of Arnulf of Orléans
Medieval Reception of Ovid's Metamorphoses

Works In Progress

A critical edition of Arnulf of Orléans's grammatical and allegorical commentary to Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Books and Monographs

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts of the University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2016. xxxiv + 716 pp. + 8 color plates.

Articles and Book Chapters

K.V. Manukyan, B.J. Guerin, E.J. Stech, A. Aprahamian, M. Wiescher, D.T. Gura, Z.D. Schultz, “Multiscale X-ray Fluorescence Mapping Complemented by Raman Spectroscopy for Pigment Analysis of a 15th-century Breton Manuscript,” Analytical Methods 8 (2016): 7696-7701.

“Living with Ovid: The Founding of Arnulf of Orléans' Thebes,” in Manuscripts of the Latin Classics 800-1200, ed. Erik Kwakkel. 131-166. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2015.

“A Hitherto Unknown Book of Hours from the Amiénois: Notre Dame,Saint Mary’s College, Cushwa-Leighton Library, MS 3: or the Le Féron-Grisel Hours,” Manuscripta 56 (2012): 227-68.

“From the Orléanais to Pistoia: the Survival of the Catena Commentary,” Manuscripta 54 (2010): 171-88.

Exhibitions & Installations

Vestigia Vaticana, Hesburgh Library, University of Notre Dame (May-August, 2016)
http://collections.library.nd.edu/2fb06059c8/vestigia-vaticana

Hour by Hour: Reconstructing a Medieval Breton Prayerbook. Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame (January 18–March 16, 2015). Review with video: http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/08/a-broken-book-of-hours-saving-a-medieval-manuscript/. Digital companion: http://publications.snitemuseum.org/hrhr/

Sacred Music at Notre Dame: the Voice of the Text. Hesburgh Library, University of Notre Dame (February 2–August 3, 2015).
Review: http://news.nd.edu/assets/165084/ndworksjune2015.pdf

Hour by Hour: Reconstructing a Medieval Breton Prayerbook. Hesburgh Library, University of Notre Dame (January 10–August 19, 2013).
Review: http://www3.nd.edu/~ndworks/2013/20130725Vol%2011No%201.pdf

Courses 2016-2017

Medieval Latin (Summer 2017)
Latin Paleography (Spring 2017)
The Bible and Liturgy (Spring 2017)

Guides

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Byzantine Studies
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Classics
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