The Latin Vulgate Bible Leaf in the Farrell Collection, Part 3: The Full Leaf

November 14, 2024 in Announcements, Event Registration, Manuscript Studies, Research Group Workshops, RGME Lending Library, RGME Library & Archives

The Latin Vulgate Bible Leaf
in the Collection of Jennah Farrell

Part 3: The Leaf Revealed in Full

Single Leaf from the Book of Numbers
now unframed
Laid out in double columns of 46 lines in Gothic Script

Size of leaf =
maximum circa 29.3 cm. tall × 20.1 cm. wide
(circa 11 9/16 in. × 7 15/16 in. )

< ruled writing area
circa 18.7 × 12.5 cm. (circa 7 3/4 × 4 7/8 in.)>

[Posted on 13 November 2024]

Collection of Jennah Farrell, Manuscript Leaf in Frame. Photograph by Jennah Farrrell.

Now that the manuscript leaf has been removed from its modern frame (see Part 2 in this series of blogposts), we display photographs of both sides of the leaf uncropped, showing its full extent at present.

We do so especially to prepare for the pair of online Workshops which we plan so as to crowdsource information, expertise, and collaboration. We invite a shared exploration to learn and teach more about the leaf, its original manuscript, its context within its genre of book and other relatives from the same center, period, or region, and perhaps also its travels from its date and place of origin in medieval Europe to its present collection in the United States.

About the frame and information about the collection from which Jennah Farrell acquired the leaf in its frame, see Part 2 on Provenance:

Latin Vulgate Bible Leaf in the Collection of Jennah Farrell, Part 2

Part 1 introduced the leaf in its frame, in the state in which it reached the RGME Lending Library for photography, conservation, research, and teaching:

A Latin Vulgate Leaf from the Book of Numbers (Part 1)

Now for Part 3 we focus on the leaf itself, including the evidence which its outer portions and its entire back side, formerly hidden, can reveal.

Side 1

This side faced forward in the former frame.

Collection of Jennah Farrell, Single Leaf from the Book of Numbers in a Medieval Latin Vulgate Bible manuscript. Full extent of the leaf, unframed: Recto. Photography by Mildred Budny.

Side 2

Collection of Jennah Farrell, Single Leaf from the Book of Numbers in a Medieval Latin Vulgate Bible manuscript. Full extent of the leaf, unframed: Verso. Photography by Mildred Budny.

Releasing the Leaf from the Frame

Collection of Jennah Farrell, Manuscript Leaf: Back of Frame. Photograph by Mildred Budny.

Removing the leaf from its frame employed a set of tools 1) to unscrew the mounting hinges and hanging wire, 2) release the backing paper glued to the back edges of the wooden frame, 3) detach the heavy staples which clamped a sheet of foam board to the framing mat, and 4) lift the mat to release the leaf.

Tools to Open the Frame and Left-over Pieces from the Frame containing the Farrell Bible Leaf. Photography by Mildred Budny.

The pieces of the frame are now kept together: stained wooden frame, sheet of glass, windowed mat, foam board, backing paper, staples, and hanging nail. The leaf is now kept in a clear archival L-sheet housed in an archival document binder.

Both Sides Now in View

Released from the frame and its mat, the leaf can be seen to have about 5 cm. more from top to bottom and about 4 more cm. from side to side. Revealed are the full extent of the margins and parts of the foliate decoration of the ornamental bars which extend from the chapter initials in three columns of the four in the layout of two columns per page or side of the leaf.

Revealed too is the marginal correction for the text entered in the outer margin on the verso and the remnants of the stitching line at the inner edge or gutter of the leaf, where an uneven cut along the full length of the leaf severed it from its formerly conjoint leaf in its original manuscript.

Can you tell which side of the leaf is the front, or original recto, and which is the back, or original verso?

Do you recognize, or would you like to discover, which manuscript the leaf came from when it was cut out of its book and separated from its relatives, to enter the world as a single leaf on its own, suited for framing and display such as on a wall?

Would you like to help us to learn about it?

A Pair of Workshops for this Leaf

We plan two RGME Workshops on Looking at Manuscripts, the first in a new series, to introduce the leaf and learn how to identify its probable date and place of origin, as well as its former manuscript and its context among relatives. Our challenge is to discern what the leaf might itself have to say about these different stages, and what we might discover about its original identity, its former manuscript, and its dispersal.

Both workshops will be held online by Zoom, for which registration (free) is required.

1) Workshop 1 introduces the leaf and sets the groundwork.

Sunday 17 November 2024 at 1:00-2:30 pm EST (GMT-5) by Zoom

Workshop 1: Registration

2) Workshop 2 follows up the lines of investigation as we might collectively compare notes and refine our inquiries more fully to understand the leaf and its relatives.

Sunday 16 December 2024 at 1:00-2:30 pm EST (GMT-5)

Workshop 2: Registration

After you register, the Zoom Link will be sent to you a few days before the event.

Beginners and experts welcome!

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About our new series of Workshops on Looking at Manuscripts, see:

The Bridge of Signs

We have been waiting for the opportunity, occasion, and resources to bring to our community for workshops, online and/or in-person, collectively to explore original source materials. With the RGME “Lending Library” as well as our own materials in the RGME Library & Archives, and with our time-tested habits of online events as well as in-person workshops, we launch our new series in a mobile approach to bring together original sources and a community interested in studying them and teaching with them.

Please join our expedition!

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Visit to the Collection of Steven Lomazow, M.D.

October 3, 2024 in Announcements, Event Registration, Manuscript Studies, Uncategorized, Visits to Collections

RGME Visit to the
Collection of
Dr. Steven M. Lomazow

of American Magazines
and Other Sources

Saturday 16 November 2024

In-person visit,
with hybrid component
for an online virtual visit (by Zoom)

“I can read you like a magazine”
— Taylor Swift, Blank Space (2014)

[Posted on 1 October 2024]

The Periodical Collection of Steven Lomazov, St. Nicholas: Scribner’s Illustrated Magazine for Girls and Boys, Front Cover (November 1873), via https://www.americanmagazinecollection.com/st-nicholas-scribners-illustrated-magazine-for-girls-and-boys-2/.

By special invitation, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence prepares to visit the private collection of Dr. Steven M. Lomazow — neurologist, book-collector, member of The Grolier Club, author, bibliographer, raconteur, and curator of exhibitions from his collection assembled over half a century. By design, this in-person visit by the RGME to his home in West Orange, New Jersey, might gather other Princeton bibliophiles and students, as our organization combines interests, resources, and organizational skills with other groups in the Princeton area and beyond, according with our traditions for in-person and online events alike.

Mindful also of responsibility to our wider audience, as customary, the RGME will provide a hybrid approach to this occasion, with a virtual component for part of the curated visit, so that parts of our wider community might attend from a distance by Zoom allowing for discussion and feedback.

Grateful for the invitation, we look forward to the visit with its opportunity for a curated tour of an extraordinary collection for many interests assembled over more than fifty years.

The Plan on the Day

We aim to arrive at the Lomazow Collection about 11:00 or 11:30 am EST (GMT-5), mindful of traffic conditions between our base at Princeton (or elsewhere for other attendees) and the location of the collection. The online component of the visit might commence at about 12:30 pm, in time for the introduction to the collection.

First, Dr. Lomazow and his wife will host a welcoming repast catered at home from a renowned bagel shop. We would ask attendees for dietary requirements.

Next, Steven will give an introduction to the collection, the materials, and their discoveries. This account would set the stage by describing the collection, how it grew, what it contains, how widely it reaches into spheres of history, literature, popular culture, and more, and how it is arranged — by groups of materials and by their size, each in alphabetical order for ease of discovery and consultation.

Then we would be able to visit the different rooms, examine their original materials, ask questions, and enter into conversations about the varied aspects of these original sources and their contexts. Thus we might learn from the materials and from each other while engaging with the original sources. Whether in person or virtually, we might count those encounters in real time as Break Out Rooms for the visit, with tailored focus for specific items, genres, and subjects.

We would end at about 5:00 pm, although perhaps some of us might remain for discussion until about 7:00 pm. The span is subject to exploration governed by numbers and interests of attendees.

For transportation from Princeton and back again, we could explore alternatives. Depending on interest and timetables, some of us might wish to drive; depending on numbers, transportation might be arranged. Please let us know your preferences and watch this space for developments as the preparations advance.

What would you like to see? Given this generous opportunity, it might be difficult to single out specific magazines, dates, or genres, because the range of the collection is so extraordinarily varied, with something for almost everyone’s taste, and with very much for historical and cultural study. What might you choose?

The Collector

Steven Lomazow, M.D., is a board-certified neurologist in practice for 43 years.

His published works on bibliophilic and related subjects include series of reference works, celebrations of the collection, and monographs on presidential medical-historical subjects.

Looking forward to conversations with and feedback from our varied audience, both expert and general, Dr. Lomazow offers this special occasion with the RGME for opportunities to examine his varied collections and learn about them, in conversation with the knowledgeable collector. A variety of publications, in print and online, present the materials and reference perspectives on their context.

Books, Blogs, Catalogues, Exhibitions, and Virtual Exhibitions

- Magazines and the American Experience:
  Highlights from the Collection of Steven Lomazow, M.D.
  americanmagazinecollection.com

Magazine History: A Collector’s Blog Documenting and illustrating the history, importance and the joy of collecting magazines

American Periodicals: A Collectors’ Guide and Reference Manual (West Orange, New Jersey: Lomazow, 1996)

The Great American Magazine: Adventures in History. Selections from The Steven Lomazow Collection of American Periodicals (West Orange, New Jersey: Lomazow, 2014)

Steven Lomazow et al., Magazines and the American Experience: Highlights from the Collection of Steven Lomazow, M.D. A Catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition held at The Grolier Club, January 20 – April 24, 2021 (New York: The Grolier Club, 2020).

“The exhibition is presented in two sections, beginning with a chronological history of American magazines from 1733 to the present. The second is devoted to a broad spectrum of genres which address the areas of popular culture that became a major focus of American magazines in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including American artists and humorists, the ongoing struggle of African Americans to achieve equality, a salute to our national game of baseball, and the development of radio, television, and motion pictures.”

Companion Virtual Exhibition at the Grolier Club: American Magazines

Also:

Steven Lomazow (with Eric Fettman), FDR’s Deadly Secret (New York: BBS Publications, 2009)

Fdr’s Deadly Secret: A supplement to our book dedicated to the understanding of the health of our thirty-second president

FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History (Amsterdam: Lugler Publications, revised edition, 2024). FDRUNMASKED.com

What is in Store?

Dr. Steven puts it succinctly. The collection contains

“Thousands of exquisitely rare and historically important items.

“The collection contains virtually every major magazine highlight ever published from the eighteenth century to the present and covers virtually every topic- literature, politics, technology (TV, Radio, Movies, Aviation etc). It also includes by far the largest collection of first issue pulp magazines (over 850) in existence. Any institution or individual that acquires it will immediately become one of the leading repositories of American popular culture. . . . There are hundreds of feet of shelves occupied by bound volumes and individual issues.”

— Magazine Collection for Sale (2011)

Many items are destined for exhibition and perhaps transfer to other institutions. This visit offers an in-depth opportunity to examine them on display in situ in the company of the collector, who has built an exceptional collection of a variety of genres, including American magazines from their beginnings, patriotic magazines in World War II, and more.

Registration

Registration is required for attendance, whether in person or online by Zoom. Numbers of attendees for the at-home visit are limited; in case of need, we will create a Waiting List.

Registration is free. We welcome voluntary donations for our section 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization equipped with slim financial resources and powered principally by volunteers with donations in funds and contributions in kind. Such donations help to sustain and foster our mission and activities. Your donations may be tax-deductible to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Please register through the RGME Eventbrite Portal, which presents all our Collections of events. Here are the ways to register for the visit in hybrid formats.

1) To attend In Person

In Person Visit to the Collection of Steven Lomazow M.D.

2) To attend Online by Zoom

Virtual Visit to the Collection of Steven Lomazow M.D.

After you register for online attendance, you will be sent the Zoom Link a few days before the event.

Questions or Suggestions?

Do you have special requests for materials you would like to see in the collection during the visit? Questions for the collector? Would you like to share your experiences with growing up with American magazines?

Please Contact Us or visit

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We look forward to hearing from you.

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Note on the Image. The long-lived St. Nicholas Magazine was launched in 1873, with the redoubtable Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905) as its first editor and many prominent authors as contributors during its period of circulation until 1940. From the Lomazow Collection, we glimpse the cover of the first issue.

Of the editor’s skills it is related:

She was able to persuade many of the great writers of the world to contribute to her children’s magazine – Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Bret Harte, John Hay, Charles Dudley Warner, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, and scores of others. One day, Rudyard Kipling told her a story of the Indian jungle; Dodge asked him to write it down for St. Nicholas. He never had written for children, but he would try. The result was The Jungle Book.

— Mary Mapes Dodge

Of especial interest to the RGME in its Anniversary Year is the first appearance in this magazine of the tale of The Little Red Hen, in its original form in a publication in English. This fable, in its original unadulterated form, serves as useful model for the RGME as goal for collaborative work and its practices or processes.

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Medieval Women’s Networks

August 4, 2024 in Announcements, Event Registration, Events, Manuscript Studies, Medieval Women's Networks

“Medieval Women’s Networks:
Exploring Tools and Techniques
for Digital Analysis”

A Pair of Interactive Public Workshops

co-organized by
Kathy Krause and Laura Morreale
and co-sponsored by the RGME

Thursday and Friday 17–18 October 2024 (Online)
12:30–14:30 pm EDT (GMT-4)

[Posted on 5 August 2024, with updates]

We gladly announce another event for our 2024 Anniversary Year.

The RGME has been invited to co-sponsor the free 2-day online event to explore and advance the swiftly developing world of work on Medieval Women’s Networks.

Co-Organizers

The event is conceived and co-organized by experts

Kathy Krause (University of Missouri, Kansas City, Emerita)
Laura Morreale (Independent Scholar and Middle Ages for Educators)

Laura, our RGME Associate, gave a presentation for our 2024 Anniversary Symposium “Manuscript Heart” in February. This coming event joins a series of collaborative events and projects which she helps to organize, accomplish, and publish.

We are glad to join forces with Kathy and her and all the co-sponsors for Medieval Womens’ Networks.

Co-Sponsors

To be held online, the event is co-sponsored by

Center for Digital and Public Humanities, the University of Missouri Kansas City
Digital Medievalist
the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
and a generous Anonymous Benefactor.

UMKC Center for Digital and Public Humanities Logo

RGME Logo

Digital Medievalist Logo

Dates

The Interactive Public Workshop will take place over two days, in sessions devoted respectively to

1) Projects. Thursday 17 October 2024
2) Data. Friday 18 October 2024

Each session is scheduled for 12:30–2:30 pm EDT (GMT-4) online.

For information see the flyer, shown here, and links below.

“Medieval Women’s Networks” Flyer.

Participants

Speakers and Digital Humanities Experts come from an international variety of centers and perspectives.

Speakers for Workshop 1: Projects

Adrienne Williams Boyarin (University of Victoria)
Elena Brizio (Georgetown University)
Tracy Chapman Hamilton (Sweet Briar College)
S.C. Kaplan (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Samantha Katz–Seal (University of New Hampshire)
Mariah Proctor–Tiffany (University of California, Long Beach)
Yvonne Seale (State University of New York, College at Geneseo)

Digital Humanities Experts for Workshop 2: Data

Kalani Craig (Indiana University)
Erin McCarthy (Saint Lawrence University)
Jeffrey Rudberg–Cox (University of Missouri, Kansas City)
Sébastien de Valeriola (Université libre de Bruxelles)

Information and Registration

To register please visit the Event registration form via Google Docs, where can also be found online information.

1. Event registration

2. An online information sheet

If Google Workspace is not accessible to you, please contact us. (See below.)

The Event flyer is available for download on the RGME website in two formats:

London, British Museum, Additional MS 10292, fol. 149r. Prose Lancelot-Grail. Saint Omer or Tournai, 1316. Image © The British Library.

We thank the co-organizers and co-sponsors of Medieval Women’s Networks for the opportunity to join the carefully-prepared program for this outstanding event. We look forward eagerly to it. We invite you to join it!

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Other RGME-sponsored Events
for our 2024 Anniversary Year

2023 and 2024 Events
Episode 17. “RGME Retrospect and Prospects: Anniversary Reflections (Saturday 21 September, online)
2024 Autumn Symposium “At The Helm” (Friday and Saturday 25-26 October 2024, online)
Episode 18. “Women as Makers of Books” (Saturday 14 December 2024, online)

To register for these sponsored events, please visit the RGME Eventbrite Collection:

RGME Eventbrite Registration Portal

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Ronda, Galicia, Spain, Puente Nuevo Bridge. Photograph 14 August 2007 by Mark Gilbert. Image: Judas6000 at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Punte_Nuevo_Bridge,_Ronda_-_Spain.jpg.

The co-sponsorship for Medieval Women’s Networks leads the RGME to open a new page on our website for news about activities, projects, conference papers, publications, and initiatives by people of the RGME. Functioning as a form of bulletin board with announcements, it appears here:

Around and About with the RGME

First up, with an announcement by Laura Morreale, is the Sweet 16 Competition launched by the Princeton-based Middle Ages for Educators (MAFE). The due date for proposals is 1 October 2024.

Questions? Suggestions?

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Consider making a Donation in Funds or in Kind for our nonprofit educational corporation powered principally by volunteers. Your donations and contributions are welcome, and can go a long way. They may be tax-deductible to the fullest extent provided by the law.

Remember to register for “Medieval Women’s Networks” for 17–18 October 2024 (see above). See you there!

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Episode 16: An Interview with Jesse D. Hurlbut

February 14, 2024 in Announcements, Event Registration, Manuscript Studies, Research Group Episodes for The Research Group Speaks, Research Group Speaks (The Series)

The Research Group Speaks
Episode 16

Saturday 22 June 2024 online
1:00–2:30 pm EST (GMT-5) by Zoom

“Trailblazing the Medieval Digital Humanities:
An Interview with Jesse D. Hurlbut”

Interviewer: Mildred Budny, Director of the RGME

[Posted on 10 February 2024, with updates]

Jesse Hurlbut at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. Photograph Jesse Hurlbut.

We invite you to attend Episode 16 in our series:

The Research Group Speaks

In this Episode, Jesse D. Hurlbut, RGME First WebMaster Emeritus, will speak informally about his contributions to manuscript studies, websites, digital access, and other interests.

Among them are his contributions to medieval manuscript studies, photography, and digital access; his teaching and research on French studies; his websites for himself and others (academic and non-profit organizations); his interests in promoting online communities for manuscript study and enjoyment; and more.

The Anniversary Symposium
in February 2024

Save-the-Date Poster for 2024 Anniversary Symposium in Thanks to Jesse Hurlbut. Poster set in RGME Bembino.

This event follows upon the 2024 Anniversary “Manuscript (HE)ART”, held online on Saturday 24 February 2024, as the first in the RGME’s set of Symposia for the 2024 Anniversary Year:

2024 Anniversary Symposium in Thanks to Jesse Hurlbut.. co-organized by Katharine C. Chandler and Jessica L. Savage

Taking its title from Jesse’s website Manuscript Art: Taking a Closer Look, the Symposium is designed to gather Jesse’s former students, colleagues, and friends, to consider subjects in manuscript and other studies of interest to him.

The Episode

Now, the Episode gives the chance to hear him, learn more about his interests, and join the conversation. For example, in particular, he proposes to describe the early digital years. These recollections may record experiences viewed in hindsight and with foresight.

The Q&A to follow — or, if we wish, interlink — with the conversational interview gives the opportunity for feedback and participation.

Jesse Hurlbut holds his newly won manuscript leaf at the Kalamazoo Congress on 10 May 2014. (Photography by Mildred Budny)

Information about Jesse:

In His Own Words:

Interview with Medieval Scholar Jesse Hurlbut (Friday, 21 August 2009)
Beatus Vir (December 5, 2015)

Information about the Episode:

Episode 16. Trailblazing for the Medieval Digital Humanities: An Interview with Jesse Hurlbut
You are Here.

Register for the Episode:

Episode 16: An Interview with Jesse D. Hurlbut; Tickets

Registration is free.

We offer the option for Registration with a voluntary Donation, which we welcome.

Donations, which may be tax-deductible, help us to continue with our activities and sustain our mission for an organization principally powered by volunteers. See:

Donations and Contributions

After registration, the Zoom link will be sent a few days before the event.

If you have questions or issues with the registration process, please contact

[email protected].

Jesse Hurlbut and others at the RGME Reception at the ICMS 9 May 2024. Photography Mildred Budny.

See you at the Episode!

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Future Episodes

Future Episodes are planned. See:

“The Research Group Speaks”: The Series.

Other Events

We plan various other events for the 2024 Anniversary Year.

2023 and 2024 Activities

For example:

2024 Anniversary Symposium in Thanks to Jesse Hurlbut (online)
2024 Spring and Autumn Symposia-plus-anniversary-symposium
2024 Spring Symposium at Vassar College (hybrid)
2024 International Congress on Medieval Studies: Program (severally in-person, online, and partly hybrid)
2024 International Medieval Congress at Leeds (hybrid)

Questions or Suggestions?

Please leave your questions or comments here (below), Contact Us, or visit

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We invite you to join:

Friends of the RGME.

Donations and contributions, in funds or in kind, are welcome and easy to give. Given our low overheads, your donations have direct impact on our work and the furtherance of our mission. For our Section 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization, your donations may be tax-deductible to the fullest extent permitted by law. Thank you for your support!

We look forward to hearing from you and seeing you at our events.

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Lisbon, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga: The mid 15th-century Saint Vincent Panels, attributed to Nuno Gonçalves. Image (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Nuno_Gon%C3%A7alves._Paineis_de_S%C3%A3o_Vicente_de_Fora.jpg) via Creative Commons.

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2024 Anniversary Symposium in Thanks to Jesse Hurlbut: Program

October 18, 2023 in Announcements, Conference, Conference Announcement, Event Registration, Manuscript Studies, RGME Symposia, Uncategorized

“MANUSCRIPT (HE)ART”

An RGME Anniversary Symposium
in Thanks to Jesse Hurlbut
(RGME WebMaster Emeritus)

Co-Organized by
Katharine C. Chandler and Jessica L. Savage

Saturday 24 February 2024 online by Zoom
10:00 am – 4:00 pm EST (GMT-5)

Announcement Part 1: The Program

[Posted on 18 October 2023, with updates]

We announce the 2024 RGME Anniversary Symposium, as an expression of thanks to our RGME WebMaster Emeritus, Jesse Hurlbut, upon his retirement. This Symposium is the first in our Symposia for 2024, when the RGME celebrates an anniversary of 35 years as an international scholarly society founded in England, and 25 years as a nonprofit educational corporation based in Princeton, New Jersey.

Jesse’s contributions to the RGME as Associate and WebMaster date from 2005, a few years after our incorporation in 1999 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The generosity of his contributions to the RGME and many others in fields of manuscript and other studies across the years lead us, in the company of some of his former students and colleagues, to offer this Symposium in thanks.

For the background for this Symposium, see the companion post to this one:

2024 Anniversary Symposium in Thanks to Jesse Hurlbut: Plan

The First WebMaster of the RGME

An accomplished medievalist, manuscript historian, photographer, blogger, and scholar of French language and literature, Jesse Hurlbut generously served as the first WebMaster of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence (2005–2023). Following Jesse’s retirement on 30 June 2023, we wish to offer this event in thanks, to examine subjects related to his interests, work, and teaching in the world of manuscript studies. The Symposium brings together former students, colleagues, and friends to share their work and work-in-progress in various subjects or projects which his work, teaching, and example may have helped to inspire or refine.

Jesse Hurlbut and the Château de Chambord in 2023. Photograph by Patricia Stevenson.

The Purpose

Our Save-the-Date Poster expresses the plan in word and image for an Anniversary Symposium full of “MANUSCRIPT (HE)ART”. (You may download it here.)

Save-the-Date Poster for 2024 Anniversary Symposium in Thanks to Jesse Hurlbut. Poster set in RGME Bembino.

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co-organized by Kathy Krause and Laura Morreale and co-sponsored by the RGME

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Saturday 22 June 2024 online 1:00–2:30 pm EST (GMT-5) by Zoom

“Trailblazing the Medieval Digital Humanities: An Interview with Jesse D. Hurlbut”

Interviewer: Mildred Budny, Director of the RGME

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2024 Anniversary Symposium in Thanks to Jesse Hurlbut: Program

“MANUSCRIPT (HE)ART”

An RGME Anniversary Symposium in Thanks to Jesse Hurlbut (RGME WebMaster Emeritus)

Co-Organized by Katharine C. Chandler and Jessica L. Savage

Saturday 24 February 2024 online by Zoom 10:00 am – 4:00 pm EST (GMT-5)

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The First WebMaster of the RGME

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RGME Visit to the
Collection of
Dr. Steven M. Lomazow

of American Magazines
and Other Sources

In-person visit,
with hybrid component
for an online virtual visit (by Zoom)

“Medieval Women’s Networks:
Exploring Tools and Techniques
for Digital Analysis”

co-organized by
Kathy Krause and Laura Morreale
and co-sponsored by the RGME

Thursday and Friday 17–18 October 2024 (Online)
12:30–14:30 pm EDT (GMT-4)

Other RGME-sponsored Events
for our 2024 Anniversary Year

The Research Group Speaks
Episode 16

Saturday 22 June 2024 online
1:00–2:30 pm EST (GMT-5) by Zoom

“Trailblazing the Medieval Digital Humanities:
An Interview with Jesse D. Hurlbut”

The Anniversary Symposium
in February 2024

An RGME Anniversary Symposium
in Thanks to Jesse Hurlbut
(RGME WebMaster Emeritus)

Co-Organized by
Katharine C. Chandler and Jessica L. Savage

Saturday 24 February 2024 online by Zoom
10:00 am – 4:00 pm EST (GMT-5)