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Seminar on the Evidence of Manuscripts (April 1994)

August 26, 2016 in Manuscript Studies, Photographic Exhibition, Seminars on Manuscript Evidence, Uncategorized

“King Alfred and His Legacy”
20 April 1994

Statue of King Alfred the Great in the Market Place at Wantage, Oxfordshire. Photograph by Steve Daniels via Wikipedia Commons.

Statue of King Alfred the Great. Photograph by Steve Daniels via Wikipedia Commons.

Invitation Letter for Seminar on 'King Alfred and His Legacy' at the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford 20 April 1994In the Series of Seminars on the Evidence of Manuscripts
Faculty of English, University of Oxford
(20 April 1994)
Invitation in pdf.

The previous Event in the series comprised a Workshop, which considered

“Pigment-Analysis of Corpus Manuscripts”
Parker Library, 4 March 1994

and which followed the Workshop on
“Image-Processing and Manuscript Studies”
Parker Library, 15 January 1994

[First published on 26 August 2016]

This was the third of the Seminars in the Series on “The Evidence of Manuscripts” to be held at the University of Oxford and hosted by our Associate, Professor Malcolm R. Godden.

The Alfred Jewel, as depicted by Henry Shaw, 'Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages' (1843) via Wikipedia Commons, showing 3 views of the gold, enamel, and rock-crystal jewel carrying an Old English inscription stating that "Alfred ordered me to be made'. Original in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

The Alfred Jewel, as depicted by Henry Shaw, ‘Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages’ (1843) via Wikipedia Commons.

The 2 previous Seminars at Oxford had considered:

“Research on Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Cambridge and Oxford”
Pembroke College, University of Oxford, June 1992

“Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts from Worcester”
Pembroke College, Oxford, March 1993

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Tags: Alfred Jewel, Asser, British Library Additional MS 43703, Burghal Hidage, Corpus Christi College MS 100, Corpus Christi College MS 322, Cotton Fire, Cotton Library, Cotton MS Otho B XI, Cotton MS Otho C VIII, Cotton MS Vitellius A.xv, Faculty of English at the University of Oxford, John Leland, King Alfred, Lawrence Nowell, Matthew Parker, Nomenclature, Parker Library, R.I. Page, Sir Robert Cotton
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Seminar on the Evidence of Manuscripts (October 1991)

August 25, 2016 in Manuscript Studies, Seminars on Manuscript Evidence

“Sixteenth-Century Transcripts of Anglo-Saxon Texts”

Invitation to Seminar on '16th-Century Transcripts of Anglo-Saxon Texts' on 12 October 1991In the Series of Seminars on the Evidence of Manuscripts
The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
(12 October 1991)
Invitation in pdf.

The previous Seminar in the series considered
“Technical Literature and its Form and Layout in Early Medieval Manuscripts”
Parker Library, July 1991

(A Workshop on “The Production, Make-Up and Handling of Medieval Manuscripts”
intervened on 5 October 1991.)

An earlier Seminar considered a related theme:
“Sixteenth-Century Interventions in Anglo-Saxon and Related Manuscripts”
Parker Library, April 1990

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The Invitation explains the plan, reports the speakers and their subjects, invites discussion from the participants, and sets out a provisional list of manuscripts available for consultation.

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Tags: 16th-Century Transcripts, Anglo-Saxon legal texts, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, Asser, Corpus Christi College MS 100, Corpus Christi College MS 111, Corpus Christi College MS 178, Corpus Christi College MS 188, Corpus Christi College MS 197A, Corpus Christi College MS 383, Corpus Christi College MS 449, Early Modern Studies, King Alfred, Life of Alfred, Matthew Parker, Parker Library, Thomas Talbot
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