Seminar on the Evidence of Manuscripts (August 1993)
September 11, 2016 in Seminars on Manuscript Evidence, Uncategorized
“British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius A.iii:
An Eleventh-Century Miscellany of Latin and Old English Texts
Owned by Christ Church, Canterbury”
The British Library, 9 August 1993
© The British Library Board, Cotton MS Tiberius A III, folio 117v
In the Series of Seminars on the Evidence of Manuscripts
The British Library, London
Invitation in pdf (3 pages including RSVP Form)
The previous Seminar in the series considered
“Corpus Christi College MS 201:
An Eleventh-Century Collection of Homiletic, Legal, and Other Texts”
in Latin and Old English
(Parker Library, 19 June 1993)
[First published on 11 September 2016 by Mildred Budny]
For the first time in this Series of Seminars and other forms of scholarly meetings, a Workshop took place at the British Library, London. Customarily they were held at the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College in the University of Cambridge. Already sessions in the Series had taken place in Oxford (20 June 1992 and 13 March 1993) and in Tokyo (November and December 1993). Now the Series turned to the British Library, as the subject and the opportunity invited.
Invitation Letter Page 1
Invitation Letter Page 2
RSVP Form
Organised by Mildred Budny, Malcolm Godden, and Andrew Prescott — all of whom issued the 2-page Invitation Letter — the Workshop at the British Library was designed to gather specialists and students, including some from abroad (Germany, The Netherlands, the United States), who would be attending the 6th biannual conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS). That conference took place on 1–7 August at Wadham College, Oxford.
Therefore we planned for “a Saturday before / after ISAS”, and entertained the possibility of holding the event in “Cambridge, Oxford, London”. These logistical considerations are recorded at the head of a 1-page planning outline in the set of 3 undated pages of pencil notes by Mildred Budny within the file for this event in the Research Group Archives.
The selected Saturday suited the speakers whom we hoped to hear and a number of participants whom we hoped to include. The stage was set.