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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. Frontispiece for the 'Rule' of Saint Benedict, showing Benedict and his Monks.

© 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 to Workshop on "Cotton MS Tiberius A.iii" at the British Library on 9 August 1993, Page 1

Invitation Letter Page 1

Invitation to Workshop on 'Cotton MS Tiberius A III' at the British Library on 9 August 1993.

Invitation Letter Page 2

Invitation to Workshop on 'Cotton MS Tiberius A III' at the British Library on 9 August 1993. RSVP Form.

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.

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Seminar on the Evidence of Manuscripts (March 1990)

February 11, 2015 in Events, Manuscript Studies, Seminars on Manuscript Evidence, Uncategorized

“Facsimiles, Diplomatic Texts and Editions”
19 March 1990

In the Series of Seminars on the Evidence of Manuscripts
Mainly at the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Cover for "Selected Pages from Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Palaeographical and Textual Handbook" by Mildred Budny, Leslie French et al.This seminar demonstrated the current state of The Palaeographical and Textual Handbook, in course of preparation as a teaching text for manuscript studies.

'Facsimiles, Diplomatic Texts and Editions' Seminar Invitation 17 March 1990.Invitation in pdf here.  Note the addition of the sign of an opened pair of scissors to cue the motion for separating the RSVP slip from the single-page Invitation Letter.  The sign represents part of the evolution of the form for the Invitation Letters of the Series.

[First published on 11 February 2015, with updates]

The seminar presented the work in progress at the Library on a series of sample facsimiles of pages from early medieval manuscripts, with transcriptions and commentaries, to teach postgraduate students the elements of manuscript study.  We began with an account of its aims, with a demonstration of the range of representations of the selected pages or facing pages.

The series proceed from photographic facsimile of the original at original size (with scale and colour guide), through computerised representation of the layout of the texts upon its page(s), to transcription, edition, and translation, with commentary.   Then we sought “comments from some of the younger members who remember more clearly their problems on first approaching materials in manuscript . . . and from others, particularly from those whose expertise lies outside textual material, but who use it in their work.”   The original manuscripts were also available for comparison.

We examined the cases selected so far for this approach:

  • MS 12 (the Cura Pastoralis in Old English, with glosses by the ‘Tremulous Worcester Hand’)
    [= Number 13 in the Illustrated Catalogue and now online]
  • MS 111 (Old English manumissions)
    [= Number 38 in the Illustrated Catalogue and now online]
  • MS 173 (Annal of 755 from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle)
    [= Number 11 in the Illustrated Catalogue and now online]
  • MS 183 (Bede’s Life of Saint Cuthbert in prose and verse)
    [= Number 12 in the Illustrated Catalogue and now online]
  • MS 197B (Latin Gospel Book)
    [= Number 3 in the Illustrated Catalogue and now online]
  • MS 326 (Ealdhelm poem in Old English and opening of De laude virginitatis)
    [= Number 21 in the Illustrated Catalogue and now online]
  • MS 422 (verse Solomon and Saturn)
    [= Number 44 in the Illustrated Catalogue and now online]

Invitations were sent to:

David Wilson, Christine Fell, Mildred Budny, Nicholas Hadgraft, Patrick Wormald, Richard Sharpe, Leslie Webster, David Parsons, Kathryn Lowe, Carol Hough, Richard Gem, Timothy Graham, James Graham-Campbell, Donald Bullough, Leslie French, Andy Hopper.

Present:

Carmen Acevedo
Mildred Budny
Donald A. Bullough
Christine Fell
L.J. French
Timothy C. Graham
Nicholas Hadgraft / Nicholas Hadgraft
Alice Harting–Correa (afterward Alice Correa–Bullough)
Carol Hough
Kathryn Lowe
John Mollon
R.I. Page
Chris Turner
Leslie E. Webster
David M. Wilson

A typescript report of this Meeting of the Seminar was prepared by Mildred Budny.  It survives in the Research Group Archives.

'Facsimiles, Diplomatic Texts and Editions' Seminar Invitation 17 March 1990.

Accounts of the progress on the Handbook appear in the Annual Reports to the Leverhulme Trust.  (See our list of Publications.)  A summary account of The Palaeographical and Textual Handbook appeared in print:

Mildred Budny’s description of
‘The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence: Contributions to the CORPUS Project’
Old English Newsletter, 28:1 (Fall 1994), A-8–A-23, at page A-9 and Plate 4 on A-20
now available online

Cover for "Selected Pages from Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Palaeographical and Textual Handbook" by Mildred Budny, Leslie French et al.

*****

Invitation to '16th-Century Interventions in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts' Seminar on 13 April 1990The next Seminar considered
“Sixteenth-Century Interventions in Anglo-Saxon and Related Manuscripts”
(Parker Library, 13 April 1990).

Most of the Seminars on the Evidence of Manuscripts considered manuscripts, types of text, approaches to scripts and layout, and challenges for transcribing, editing, translating, and analysing the evidence upon the pages, chosen for the Handbook, which engaged our collective attention throughout the rest of the Research Project and, to a limited extent, beyond.

With the requirement at short notice to find a different base for the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence following the completion of the Project, rather than the base that had been contracted, some intended publications fell into disarray for a while.  The Handbook was one of them.  Now, in digitising and recording more of the Research Group’s records on our website, we can present a clearer representation of the vision of that plan.  Watch this space.

*****

 

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Seminar on the Evidence of Manuscripts (April 1990)

January 11, 2015 in Events, Seminars on Manuscript Evidence

“Sixteenth-Century Interventions
in Anglo-Saxon and Related Manuscripts”

Invitation to '16th-Century Interventions in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts' Seminar on 13 April 1990In the Series of Seminars on the Evidence of Manuscripts
The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
(13 April 1990)
Invitation in pdf

The previous seminar in the series considered Facsimiles, Diplomatic Texts and Editions.

[First published on 5 January 2015, with updates]

The Plan

The invitation to the seminar observed:

“We hope that this subject may interest those concerned with early manuscripts as well as those concerned with later uses made of them.”

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Tags: Andrew G. Watson, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Ælfric's Grammar and Glossary, Budny's Illustrated Catalogue, Corpus Christi College MS 197B, Corpus-Cotton-Legendary, Eadmer's Historia Novorum, King Alfred's Cura Pastoralis, Matthew Parker, Old English homily collections, Parker Library, Sixteenth-century interventions in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts
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