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      • Adelaide Bennett Hagens
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      • Congress Activities
        • Sponsored Conference Sessions (1993‒)
          • Panels at the M-MLA Convention
        • Co-sponsored Conference Sessions (2006‒)
    • History
      • Seals, Matrices & Documents
      • Genealogies & Archives
  • Bembino
    • Multi-Lingual Bembino
  • Congress
    • Sponsored Conference Sessions (1993‒)
    • Co-sponsored Conference Sessions (2006‒)
    • Abstracts of Congress Papers
      • Abstracts Listed by Author
      • Abstracts Listed by Year
    • Kalamazoo Archive
    • Panels at the M-MLA Convention
      • Abstracts of Papers for the M-MLA Convention
  • Events
    • The Research Group Speaks: The Series
    • Seminars, Workshops, Colloquia & Symposia (1989–)
      • Seminars on ‘The Evidence of Manuscripts’
      • Symposia on ‘The Transmission of the Bible’
      • The New Series
        • 2019 Anniversary Symposium Program: The Roads Taken
        • 2019 Anniversary Symposium Registration
        • 2019 Anniversary Symposium Registration Open
    • Abstracts of Papers for Events
      • Abstracts of Papers for Seminars on ‘The Evidence of Manuscripts’
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    • Photographic Exhibitions & Master Classes
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      • “Insular, Anglo-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman Manuscript Art at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge” (1997)
        • Mildred Budny, ‘Catalogue’
        • The Illustrated Catalogue (1997)
      • The Illustrated Handlist
      • Semi-Official Counterfeiting in France 1380-1422
      • No Snap Decisions: Challenges of Manuscript Photography
    • History and Design of Our Website
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Another Visit to The Library Cafe

December 30, 2018 in Interview, Interviews, Manuscript Studies, Reports

Interview with Thomas E. Hill
Art Librarian and Host of The Library Cafe

Thomas Hill welcomes guests to The Library Cafe. Photography © Mildred Budny

At the Entrance to The Library Cafe

This time, we revisit The Library Cafe at Vassar College, for an interview with the creator and host of the series of radio interviews, broadcast on wvkr.org.

Thomas Hill shows the selections stocking The Library Cafe. Photography © Mildred Budny

The Barista

An earlier visit, invited by Tom, yielded an interview for his series. Broadcast live on Wednesday, 12 October 2016, the interview with our Director can be heard through the website of the Library Cafe.

  • Radio Star
  • A Visit to the Library Cafe

Our Director’s accompanying blogpost gives some further reflections, adds a glossary of Names mentioned in the interview (People, Places, Libraries, Books, and Manuscripts), with links and illustrations, and examines the processes by which dedicated research and the changing world of educational opportunities (or the reverse) led to the formation and development of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence. See Here.

The New Visit

A visit to Vassar for the purpose in August, 2018, yielded this in-depth interview, with questions posed by our Research Group Director, Mildred Budny (an alumna of Vassar College), and thoughtful, detailed responses by Tom Hill. The resulting pair of interviews were broadcast in October as Thomas Edward Hill. Following the initial broadcasts, they can be heard anytime as a podcast.

Seated at his desk in his office, Thomas Hill checks the audio for his Interview.  Photograph by Mildred Budny.

Tom Checks the Audio for His Interview

Booklet Page 1 of the 'Interview with our Font & Layout Designer' (2015-16)

“Interview” Cover Page

We thank Tom greatly for his generosity, hospitality, and inspiration!

With illustrations, we prepare the transcript for publication as a booklet, within the growing series of our interviews in audio or visual forms.

Some of them include the interview booklets with our Layout and Font Designer and with the Author and Layout Designer of the illustrated catalogue co-published by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence

  • Interview with Our Layout and Font Designer (2016)
  • Design and Layout of the Illustrated Catalogue (2018)

We look forward to sharing the illustrated booklet showcasing Tom’s interview!

Thomas E. Hill stands at the entrance to the Vassar College Library. Photography by Mildred Budny

At the entrance to the Vassar College Library, August 2018

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Tags: Interviews, The Library Cafe, Thomas E. Hill, Vassar College
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Radio Star

October 13, 2016 in Announcements, Reports, Uncategorized

Radio Interview with our Director

Photography by David Immerman.

Photography by David Immerman.

In a newly available broadcast, Mildred Budny is interviewed for The Library Cafe series, hosted by our Associate Thomas Hill.

We invite you to listen, at your leisure, to the newly broadcast radio interview with our Director. Recorded in association with a Class Reunion in June 2016 at her alma mater, Vassar College, it offers the occasion, and the setting, to reflect upon the formative examples of good teachers and a long-term immersion in studying the original sources, manuscripts of course included.

Broadcast live on Wednesday 12 October 2016, the interview can be heard on the web through the website of the Library Cafe. Hear Here.

Our Director’s accompanying blogpost gives some further reflections, adds a glossary of Names mentioned in the interview (People, Places, Libraries, Books, and Manuscripts), with links and illustrations, and examines the processes by which dedicated research and the changing world of educational opportunities (or the reverse) led to the formation and development of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence. See Here.

Thomas Hill explains the iconography of the cycle of tapestries adorning the entrance hall to the Vassar College Library. Photography © Mildred Budny

Thomas Hill and Sally V. Kiel stand in the Vassar College Main Library on a sunny day in June. Photography © Mildred Budny.

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Booklet Page 1 of the 'Interview with our Font & Layout Designer' (2015-16)This radio interview, joining the recorded Oral Tradition stands alongside the first interview (in written form) published on our own website. We asked some pertinent questions, and received detailed, reflective answers from our Associate Leslie French. Because he prefers not to appear in photographs (his chosen attribute is said to be the Tarnhelm), we illustrate the introduction to his interview with his designs for the Research Group. See here.  That interview takes the form of a freely downloadable booklet, accessible through that link.

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These several interviews, for which we give thanks, represent a development in our history, as we turn the spotlight onto the People who stand within the books, the research, the collaborations, and the Group.

More interviews are planned.  They may take the forms which the available and preferred recording media invite.

We welcome suggestions for further subjects. Please let us know. Do you think that this is a good plan?

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The Host of 'The Library Cafe' in the Radio Studio. Photography © Mildred Budny

Tom In the Recording Studio before we begin the Interview. Photography © Mildred Budny.

Tags: Interviews, Leslie French, Mildred Budny, Sally V. Kiel, Tarnhelm, The Library Cafe, Thomas Hill, Vassar College, Vassar College Library
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A Visit to The Library Café

October 10, 2016 in Announcements, Manuscript Studies, Reports

The Library Café
and Its Host, Thomas Hill
of the Vassar College Art Library

Close-Up of The Host of 'The Library Cafe' in the Radio Studio. Photography © Mildred Budny[This post announces, and accompanies, a radio interview with our Director, Mildred Budny, describing aspects of our origins, development, purposes, and activities.  You can hear the interview, beginning with its live broadcast on Wednesday 12 October 2016 from 12:00 noon ET, or 17:00 GMT, here.]

We celebrate a visit to The Library Café and its host, Thomas Hill, Art Librarian at Vassar College.  That prime educational institution is the Alma Mater of the Director of the Research Groups.

For a while now, I (this is the Director talking) have been a fan of Tom’s series of radio interviews, and a fan of Tom, with his wide interests, generous hospitality, and fascinating conversations.  We first met, as I recall, at one of my talks at Vassar, and we have continued to talk, and I have continued to listen, over the years since then, at Vassar and elsewhere.

Here is how the Vassar College Art Library describes The Library Cafe:

The Library Café is a weekly program of table talk with scholars, artists, publishers and librarians about books, scholarship, and the formation and circulation of knowledge.

As for my View? It is breathtakingly wonderful. That’s my opinion.  Delighted to become part of it!

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Tags: Alum Authors Meet & Greet Event, Asterix, Benjamin Kohl, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, British Library Additional MS 89000, British Library Royal MS 1 E.vi, British Museum, Budny's Illustrated Catalogue, Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon Ornamental Metalwork, Codex Amiatinus, Corbie Psalter, Cuthbert Gospel, David Wilson, Donald J. Olsen, Interviews, Julia McGrew, Linda Nochlin, Lindisfarne Gospels, Saint Dunstan, Sally V. Kiel, Sarah Tredwell, Steve Glasgow, Sutton Hoo, The Library Cafe, Thomas Hill, Vassar College, Vassar College Art Library, Vassar College Store
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Seminar on the Evidence of Manuscripts (19 June 1993)

September 21, 2016 in Manuscript Studies, Uncategorized

“Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS 201”

The Parker Library, 19 June 1993

Invitation for 'Corpus MS 201' Seminar 19 June 1993In the Series of Seminars on the Evidence of Manuscripts
The Parker Library

Invitation in pdf (2 pages including RSVP Form)

The previous Seminar in the series considered

“Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts at Worcester”
(Pembroke College, Oxford, 13 March 1993)

[First published on 21 September 2016 by Mildred Budny]

This meeting cast the spotlight upon a single volume — albeit a complicated and multi-partite volume, comprising an assembly of 3 Parts from different former manuscripts.  A Triple Decker, with lots of trimmings.

Once upon a time, the margins of the book were included in the trimming process, alas.  We had a close look as experts gathered from several centres, even by proxy.

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Tags: Archbishop Wulfstan, Archbishop Wulfstan's Commonplace Book, Budny's Illustrated Catalogue, Corpus Christi College MS 190, Corpus Christi College Ms 191, Corpus Christi College MS 196, Corpus Christi College MS 201, Corpus Christi College MS 265, Cotton MS Nero A I, Cotton MS Tiberius A III, Cotton MS Vespasian A VIII, David Ganz, Grimbald of Saint-Bertin, Julia McGrew, New Minster Winchester, Palaeographical and Textual Handbook, Parker Library, Patrick Wormald, Seminars on Manuscript Evidence, Sermo Lupi ad Anglos, Stowe MS 944, The Library Cafe, Thomas Hill, Vassar College
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