A 13th-Century Pocket Vulgate Bible at Smith College
August 13, 2023 in Uncategorized
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A Thirteenth-Century Pocket Vulgate Bible at Smith College:
Hannah Goeselt
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
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.
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.
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.
Tom Checks the Audio for His Interview
“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!
At the entrance to the Vassar College Library, August 2018
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Radio Star
October 13, 2016 in Announcements, Reports, Uncategorized
Radio Interview with our Director
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 and Sally V. Kiel stand in the Vassar College Main Library on a sunny day in June. Photography © Mildred Budny.
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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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Tom In the Recording Studio before we begin the Interview. Photography © Mildred Budny.
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
[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!
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
In 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.