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“Colour and Pigments in Manuscript Illumination” (June 1995)

September 26, 2016 in Uncategorized

“Colour and Pigments in Manuscript Illumination”
Parker Library, 9 June 1995

Invitation to 'Canterbury Manuscripts' Seminar on 19 September 1994An extension of the Series of Research Group Seminars and Workshops on “The Evidence of Manuscripts”
The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

This Workshop followed the Seminars and Workshops held by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence while resident at the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College until 30 September 1994.  After the Research Group’s move of its principal base to the United States in October 1994, this next workshop formed an amiable conclusion to the series.

The previous Seminar held at the Parker Library considered

“Canterbury Manuscripts”
Parker Library, 19 September 1994

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View Toward the Chapel of Corpus Christi College in mid-September 1994 photography © Mildred Budny

View Toward the Chapel, Upon Entering Corpus Christi College, in mid-September 1994 photography © Mildred Budny

The Plan

Dated 11 April 1995, composed by Nigel Wilkins, Librarian, and circulated with the signature of “G. Cannell”, plus her handwritten letters “pp” opposite his typed name, the 2-page Invitation Letter on Parker Library Letterhead describes the aim.  We quote in parts.

The Parker Library, together with the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, plans to hold its next workshop on Friday June 9th 1995.  The Theme is Colour and Pigments in Manuscript Illumination.  An accompanying small exhibition is to be mounted on the same theme by Nicholas Hadgraft and Cheryl Porter.

A description of logistics precedes the list of speakers and subjects.

We plan to start at 11 a.m., break for lunch in the College Hall (self-service) from 1 p.m to 2 p.m, and carry on as long as it takes, finishing with tea by 1 p.m.

Old Court at Corpus Christi College, Summer 1994. Photograph © Mildred Budny.

Old Court at Corpus Christi College, Summer 1994. Photograph © Mildred Budny.

The Speakers

The Letter lists the proposed line-up.

Cheryl Porter (London):  Pigments:  a general introduction.

John Gage (Cambridge):  Colour words and colour patches.

Andreas Petzold (V & A):  The use of colour in the Bury Bible.

Nigel Wilkins and Catherine Hall (Cambridge):  Concerning colour, in C.C.C.C. MSS 297, 410, 301.

Mildred Budny:  The colour purple in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts.

Cheryl Porter:  Tyrian purple and the technique of its application to manuscripts.

The Wish and the Long-Term Plan

The Letter concludes:

Future workshop themes include Musical Iconography; Images of Books; Matthew Paris; the Scotichronicon.  We would be very glad if you would send us your own suggestions.

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Invitation to 'Canterbury Manuscripts' Seminar on 19 September 1994"The Bible and the Visual Arts" Symposium 1995The full Series of Seminars and other scholarly events devoted to examining “The Evidence of Manuscripts” is reported here.

After the conclusion of the events held in-house during the tenure of the Research Group at the Parker Library (with the Seminar on “Canterbury Manuscripts” in September 1994) and the move perforce to the United States, there soon began the “Next Series” of Events, starting with the Annual Symposia in “The Transmission of the Bible”, already with a session in March 1995.  That series, and the “New Series” which followed it, are reported here.

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Tags: Corpus Christi College MS 297, Corpus Christi College MS 301, Corpus Christi College MS 410, Manuscript studies, Medieval Pigments, Seminars on Manuscript Evidence
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Pigment-Analysis of Corpus Manuscripts (March 1994)

September 10, 2016 in Manuscript Studies, Reports, Seminars on Manuscript Evidence, Uncategorized

Cover for Preliminary Report of the January 1994 Workshop on 'Image Processing and Manuscript Studies'A Workshop/Visit
by the Pigment-Analysis Project
at University College London

At the Parker Library, 4 March 1994

in the Series of Research Group Seminars on ‘The Evidence of Manuscripts’
The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

[First published on our website on 9 September 2016]

In our Series on “The Evidence of Manuscripts”, this Workshop (also called a Visit) followed our larger Workshop or Seminar on “Image-Processing and Manuscript Studies” on 15 January, but it resulted from its own set of extended preparations by another Project, likewise funded by The Leverhulme Trust. For this purpose, members of that project, based at University College London, brought some portable scientific equipment for close observation of selected details involving red pigment in a few Insular and Anglo-Saxon manuscripts.

'The London University' as viewed by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd (published in 1827/280), via Wikipedia Commons.

‘The London University’ (now University College London) as viewed by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd (published in 1827/280), via Wikipedia Commons.

The subject of the Visit to the Parker Library: Non-destructive analysis of “Pigments in Selected Corpus Manuscripts” by UltraViolet-visible spectroscopy.

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Seminars on “The Evidence of Manuscripts” (1989‒1995)

January 1, 2014 in Events, Manuscript Studies, Seminars on Manuscript Evidence

Logo of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence in Monochrome VersionResearch Group Seminars,
Workshops, and Symposia:
The Early Years

Since 1990, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence has held Seminars, Workshops, and Symposia (organized or co-organized by Mildred Budny) variously at the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and at other centers in England, Japan, and the United States.  In England, many of these sessions belonged to the series of Research Group Seminars on “The Evidence of Manuscripts.”  At libraries, the sessions have taken place over relevant manuscripts in the collection, supplemented by photographs.  Elsewhere, the sessions have usually been accompanied by displays or exhibitions of photographs (mostly by Mildred Budny).

View Toward the Chapel of Corpus Christi College in mid-September 1994 photography © Mildred Budny

View Toward the Chapel, Upon Entering Corpus Christi College, in mid-September 1994 photography © Mildred Budny

View Toward the Entrance to the Parker Library in mid-1989 photograph © Mildred Budny

View Toward the Entrance to the Parker Library in mid-1989. Photograph © Mildred Budny.

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Tags: Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, Aoyama Gakuin University, British Library, Budny's Illustrated Catalogue, Calligraphy, Canterbury Manuscripts, Chuo University, Corpus Christi College Cambridge, Corpus Christi College Ms 139, Corpus Christi College MS 201, Corpus Christi College MS 223, Corpus Christi College MS 23, Corpus Christi College MS 383, Corpus Christi College MS 41, Corpus Christi College MS 44, Cotton MS Tiberius A III, Early Modern Studies, Japan Society for Medieval English Studies, King Alfred, Library History, Manuscript Illumination, Manuscript Marginalia, Manuscript studies, Medieval Manuscript Fragments, Medieval Pigments, Old English Studies, Palaeographical and Textual Handbook, Palaeography, Parker Library, Pembroke College Oxford, Seminars on Manuscript Evidence, Symposia on 'The Transmission of the Bible", University of Tokyo
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