2026 Annual Appeal
November 7, 2025 in Manuscript Studies, RGME Annual Appeal
2026 Annual Appeal
for Donations
to Support
our Mission and Activities
[Posted on 7 November 2025]
We invite you to join our 2026 Annual Appeal, as the Research Group rounds out the extraordinarily successful year of accomplishments for 2025 (see below), and prepares for the future. That we were able to accomplish so much in 2025, in the face of many significant setbacks for funding and swift shifts in plans to host our activities, attests to the strength and vigor of the volunteers and donors (individual and institutional).
They all, in collegial collaboration, have made it possible to maintain course for our activities, to produce so many events both hybrid and online, to gather to learn about discoveries for research and the progress on work-in-progress, and to celebrate the delights of learning more about the marvels of books and their stories transmitted across the centuries. This momentum carries our plans forward to 2026, with activities already planned and more to come.
We turn to you to help us to maintain momentum and share the quest. Please donate what you can. For our small, deducated, nonprofit organization powered principally by volunteers, every donation can make a difference.
Ways to Donate Online and Other Ways
Ways to contribute?
There are many ways to help: Funds, Goods, Expertise, Time. All can help our work and mission.
For suggestions, see:
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Summary of Activities So Far
Building on the momentum and enthusiasm for this year’s accomplishments, we prepare more for 2026.
Activities in Progress and Accomplished in 2025
In 2025 we had:
Two Symposia dedicated to “Agents and Agencies” in the realms of books
More Episodes for our online series “The Research Group Speaks”
More RGME Workshops on “The Evidence of Manuscripts, Etc.”
More Meetings of the Friends of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Logo (2024) of the Friends of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Steps toward the preparation of a Cookbook of Favorite Recipes of the Friends of the RGME
- For example, entries for Favorite Recipes for Lemonade, Etc.
Poster 2. 2025 Autumn Colloquium. Poster set in RGME Bembino.
Multiple conference sessions, sponsored and co-sponsored, at
1) the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo
RGME Activities at the 2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies
2) the International Medieval Congress at Leeds
RGME Activities at the 2025 International Medieval Congress at Leeds
By request, a special Autumn Colloquium on Fragments, in hybrid form, which had to move abruptly from the first host institution to a welcome instead at Princeton
Onward to 2026
Our website reports activities and projects as they unfold for the Year 2026, when our Theme centers upon “Transformation and Renewal”. Join us to see how they may unfold.
Please donate what you can to keep our organization on course, in the face of widespread challenges for funding. We are grateful for your support.
1) Via Mightycause:
2) Via Paypal, Venmo, ApplePay, Pay Later, or Debit or Credit Card:
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