Seminar on the Evidence of Manuscripts (11 December 1993)
September 16, 2016 in Manuscript Studies, Seminars on Manuscript Evidence, Uncategorized
“Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS 41: A Workshop”
Parker Library, 11 December 1993
Invitation Letter Page 1 for 11 December 1993
Invitation Letter Page 2 for 11 December 1993
In the Series of Seminars and Workshops on “The Evidence of Manuscripts”
The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
2-page Invitation in pdf with 1-page RSVP Form
The previous Workshop in the Series considered
“Professionals’ Views of Manuscript Writing”
1 November 1993
[First published in 15 September 2016, as Mildred Budny reviews the event and its setting among the many events and activities of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence]
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The Plan
Dated 12 November 1993, the 2-page Invitation Letter (shown here and downloadable here with the 1-page RSVP Form) provides the Menu for the Food for Thought.
We plan to hold a workshop on Saturday, 11 December, devoted to Corpus Christi College, MS 41: the Corpus Old English Bede. This large-format eleventh-century manuscript principally contains a copy of the Old English version of Bede‘s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, with a large cycle of decorated initials, including historiated initials depicting secular and religious subjects. It also has numerous texts added in the margins and other available areas. In Latin and Old English, the additions include liturgical, homiletic, poetic and other texts: portions of a sacramentary, part of a martyrology, metrical and prose charms, a recipe, prayers, the beginning of Solomon and Saturn I, six anonymous homilies, two runic inscriptions and the bilingual donorship inscription recording Bishop Leofric‘s gift of the book to Exeter Cathedral. There are many trials, sketches and drawings, including some supplied, retouched or retraced initials. The multiple additions endow the book with the remarkable character of a combined “commonplace book” and sketchbook, forming a richly layered artifact.
Much goes on between the covers. Not all of it seemly. For example, this manuscript sees fit to include an image of a hanged man. Creepy.
2025 International Medieval Congress at Leeds: Call for Papers
August 1, 2024 in Announcements, Call for Papers, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, Manuscript Studies
2025 International Medieval Congress
at Leeds:
Call for Papers
“Manuscripts as Worlds of Learning”
(2 Sessions + Roundtable)
32nd Annual IMC
Monday to Thursday 07–10 July 2025
(with In-Person and Virtual Components)
Deadline for your Proposals for Papers: 5 September 2024
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25, p. 73, top. Image via https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/Dublin,_Royal_Irish_Academy,_MS_23_E_25 via Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).
[Posted on 1 August 2024, with updates]
Building upon the successful completion of our RGME Inaugural Session at the International Medieval Congress (IMC) at the University of Leeds in July 2024, we announce the Call for Papers (CFP) for our activities at next year’s Congress.
For information about the Congress, see
Note that the general deadline for individual papers without specified sessions in a general pool is 31 August 2024.
The deadline for proposals for our RGME-sponsored Sessions is 5 September 2024. Please send your proposals directly to us as organisers; we will select the programmes by their deadline of 30 September 2024. (Instructions below.)
“Worlds of Learning” at Leeds in 2025
Next year’s Thematic Focus for the IMC is “Worlds of Learning”. The broad scope is described in the general Call for Papers: IMC 2025 – ‘Worlds of Learning’.
We invite you to submit proposals for a set of interlinked events planned for the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence (RGME) to focus on the power and potential of manuscripts to contain, convey, and embody worlds of learning within their span. In effect, given their structure and contents, as we approach them as beholder, user, reader, student, teacher, or admirer, they may carry worlds in our hands.
How might medieval manuscripts do so, variously for their medieval audience, later intermediaries, and our own times? How might and do they function as “Worlds of Learning” in their own right/write? We explore.
Update (14 August 2024): As interest grows, we plan several sessions for the 2025 IMC.
In another post, we present a Session with Papers devoted to “Game Knowledge and Knowledge of Games”, which follows up a strand in our RGME Inaugural Session this year.
Here we present a suite of events containing two Sessions with Papers accompanied by a Round Table with Discussion, all dedicated to “Manuscripts as Worlds of Learning”.
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