Publications

The Research Group promotes a principled, unified approach to its publications, for clarity of comprehension and for the matching of form and content to function and audience.  The Publications Committee plans, guides, and directs the publications of the Research Group in accordance with its mission as a corporation and its obligations as a nonprofit educational organization.

Aiming to present as much of the evidence as possible, set in its widest context, the Research Group illustrates its publications with reproductions of the materials under discussion.  We encourage readers to examine and compare them against the commentary, to judge the assessments and offer their own refinements.  The Research Group offers all observers access to fuller understanding of the materials themselves, without requiring or expecting them to become specialists in all aspects which the diverse evidence encompasses.  By bringing the evidence to wider attention, our publications and other activities can foster future research.  This aspect too of our work keeps in view the importance of preparing for a worthwhile future, by all means.

Publications by and jointly by the Research Group comprise announcements of its mission and activities, exhibition catalogues, reports of discoveries, and a major catalogue.  The catalogue incorporates the results of long-term research at Corpus Christi College and reproduces more than 765 photographs of the manuscripts, mostly full-page and newly made for the publication.  Publications in preparation include studies, both individual and collaborative, on aspects of written and other forms of evidence and its context.

Mildred Budny, "The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence:  A Profile," Medieval English Studies Newsletter, 27 (Tokyo:  The Centre for Medieval English Studies, University of Tokyo, 1992), 6–11, and now available online at http://www.flet.keio.ac.jp/~mesn/mesn_scan/MESN27a-dec1992.pdf.  This early version of our "Profile" was also printed and circulated as part of the next item.

R.I. Page, M.O. Budny, T.C. Graham, and L.J. French, "A Profile of the Research Group and Annual Reports to the Leverhulme Trust" (Cambridge:  Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, 1994), with reprints of the First to Fifth Annual Reports (1990-4) of "The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts:  A Research Project at The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, funded by the Leverhulme Trust," by R.I. Page, M.O. Budny, and T.C. Graham.

Mildred Budny, "Canterbury at Corpus:  An Exhibition of Manuscripts from St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, to mark the Enthronement of the 103rd Archbishop in April 1991" (Cambridge:  Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, 1991), accompanying an exhibition held at the Parker Library in 1991; reprinted in Old English Newsletter, 24:4 (Summer 1991), as Appendix A (A-1–7).

Mildred Budny and Leslie French, with the assistance of Timothy Graham, "The Integrated Approach to Manuscript Studies" (Cambridge:  Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, 1992), accompanying an exhibition of 103 photographs by Mildred Budny and eighteen computer-scanned images by Leslie French, held at the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Tokyo at Komaba, at Chuo University, and at Aoyama Gakuin University in November and December 1992.

"Matthew Parker in Cambridge," selected by Catherine Hall, with photography by Mildred Budny (Cambridge: Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, 1993); reprinted in expanded form in Old English Newsletter, 27:1 (Fall 1993), as Appendix A (A-1–8).

R.I. Page, Matthew Parker and his Books:  Sandars Lectures in Bibliography, Delivered on 14, 16, and 18 May 1990 at the University of Cambridge, with photographs by Mildred Budny (Kalamazoo:  Medieval Institute Publications in association with the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, 1993).  This volume is available through Medieval Institute Publications: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/mip/books/nsv.htm.

Mildred Budny, "Research Group on Manuscript Evidence:  Profile," issued in print in successive versions with revisions and expansions (Princeton:  Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, 1995–9; and Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation, 1999– ), and now issued on this present website, with updates as appropriate (2006- ).

"St Edmundsbury and Cambridge:  Exhibition Catalogues for Manuscripts from the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds now in Collections in Cambridge," selected by Antonia Gransden and edited by Mildred Budny, with photography by Mildred Budny (Cambridge:  Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, 1994); reprinted in revised and expanded form as Antonia Gransden, "Some Manuscripts in Cambridge from Bury St Edmunds Abbey:  Exhibition Catalogue," in Bury St Edmunds: Medieval Art, Architecture, Archaeology and Economy, edited by Antonia Gransden, The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions, 20 (1998), 228–85.

Mildred Budny, Insular, Anglo-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman Manuscript Art at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge:  An Illustrated Catalogue, with a Foreword by David M. Wilson and an Introduction by R.I. Page, and with photography by Mildred Budny (Kalamazoo:  Medieval Institute Publications in association with the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and with the assistance of the Getty Grant Program, 2 vols., 1997).  This set of volumes is available through Medieval Institute Publications: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/mip/books/nsv.htm.

[Mildred Budny and Leslie French,] "Research Group on Manuscript Evidence:  Style Manifesto" (Princeton:  Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, 1999), reprinted in ShelfLife, Number 1 (see below).

"Abstracts of Papers" [compiled and edited by Mildred Budny] for the Colloquium on "Shaping Understanding:  Form and Order in the Anglo-Saxon World, 400-1100," co-organized by Leslie E. Webster and Mildred Budny and held at The British Museum on 7-9 March 2002 (Princeton:  Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, 2002); reprinted in Old English Newsletter, 35:3 (Spring 2002), A-5-15; and reissued in the Old English Newsletter Online, among the "Abstracts of Conference Papers" listed by year, authors, titles, and the conference name "British Museum Colloquium." See http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/abstracts.php.

http://www.manuscriptevidence.org. Website of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, designed and maintained by Jesse D. Hurlbut (2006– ). You are here, and we welcome your visit. We hope that you enjoy the tour.

ShelfLife:  A Meeting Place for Scholars, Collectors & Collectors of Manuscripts, Books & the Written Word. Bulletin of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, edited by Mildred Budny and Asa Simon Mittman. The first issue is in print: Number 1 (Winter 2006). This issue is printed and distributed by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies of the Arizona State University. For information about the issue, and how to order a copy, reserve future issues, and become a Sponsor of the Bulletin and Benefactor or Patron of the Research Group, please see our ShelfLife Journal Description and Subscriptions & Donations.