Our interests embrace many materials and fields of study, ranging from book culture, book history, library history, art history, palaeography, textual transmission, and linguistics, to archival studies, conservation, archaeology, and forensics.<\/p>\n
Although our individual experiences and forms of expertise perforce differ (for example through the pre-determined conditions of birth order), we seek to foster discourse and feedback across disciplines and generations, with the aim of strengthening and refining knowledge overall.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>‘Through & Through’ (Budny Handlist 12). Using a template for the design on both front and back of the leaf. Call it Double Vision.<\/p><\/div>\n
Welcome
\n<\/strong><\/h2>\nWe invite you to join our activities, and become a Sponsor or Donor of our work and mission.\u00a0 Contributions and Donations<\/a> \u2014 both in funds and in kind \u2014 enable our activities to continue.<\/p>\nThe Research Group is a recognized Section 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization, in the form of a corporation.\u00a0 It is devoted to “lectures, discussions, and other forms of publications”.\u00a0 Donations to its mission may thus be tax-deductible.<\/p>\n
Importantly, the Group continues its activities and most of its managerial obligations as a nonprofit educational corporation only through voluntary contributions, by which no Officer receives a salary.\u00a0 Moreover, so far, there is only a slender endowment.\u00a0 The donations in time, expertise, and materials ensure that the overheads for the organization are kept to an exemplary minimum.<\/p>\n
This principle and practice means that your donations \u2014 in funds and in kind \u2014 can help to sustain, to a great extent, the activities for which our organization is dedicated. In this respect, too, the organization is exceptional (not unique) among nonprofit educational enterprises.<\/p>\n
Highlights<\/h2>\n
The 1-page Agendas<\/strong> for our Open Business Meetings<\/a> describe current and long-term activities, plans, and aspirations.\u00a0 They are available for your inspection and perusal (in the Archive<\/a>, so that you can see our progress and achievements) and for the current year:<\/p>\n\n- 2021 Agenda & Report<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Our Anniversary Years<\/strong> offer special celebrations which build upon the momentum of previous years’ activities as we move toward the future, often with the continuation of our traditional activities and, by request, the creation of new activities, both in person and (since 2022) online.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Poster-1-2024-RGME-Autumn-Symposium-11-Oct-2024-with-border-232x300.png\")
Poster 1 for 2024 Autumn Symposium<\/p><\/div>\n
In 2014 the Group celebrated its 15th anniversary as a nonprofit educational corporation based in Princeton, New Jersey, and its 25th as an international scholarly organization founded in the United Kingdom as part of a collaborative research project on Anglo-Saxon and related manuscripts and their context.\u00a0 We celebrated in style<\/a>, as we happily record<\/a>.<\/p>\nIn 2019 the Group celebrated its 20th\/30th anniversaries with multiple activities, including an Anniversary Symposium<\/a> (“The Roads Taken, or<\/em>, The Obstacle Course”).\u00a0 For it, we published an illustrated 2019 Symposium Booklet<\/a>, in the expanding series of these Booklets. All our Booklets are freely available for download on this site. See our<\/p>\n\n- Publications<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In 2024 the Group celebrated its 25th\/35th anniversaries with a pair of Spring and Autumn Symposia<\/a> and other related events and publications. See, for example,<\/p>\n\n- our Activities for 2024 and 2025<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Over the years, the range of interests and activities of the Group has expanded to address many forms of manuscript and other evidence across the centuries.\u00a0 Our activities and this website with our blogs illustrate these interests.<\/p>\n
Please explore the items on our Menu<\/strong> to learn about our history, origins, and aims; our officers, organization, associates, and volunteers; and our activities, which include meetings, photographic exhibitions<\/a>, research projects, and publications<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Our conference sessions, both sponsored<\/a> and co-sponsored<\/a>, usually occur at the Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies<\/a> at Kalamazoo, Michigan, and sometimes elsewhere.<\/p>\nOur meetings in many centers take the form of lectures, master classes, interviews, symposia, colloquia, seminars, workshops<\/a>, and conference activities<\/a>. Our blogs report developments and discoveries. Our online or hybrid events include our series “The Research Group Speaks”<\/a>, Workshops on “The Evidence of Manuscripts, Etc.”<\/a>, and visits to collections.<\/p>\nThe variety of formats allows for flexible planning for different sizes of audience, locations, subjects, and styles of presentation, with opportunities for discussion. Bringing our events to different centers by invitation makes it possible to meet more parts of our community and foster connections.<\/p>\n
Publications<\/h2>\n
Our Publications<\/strong><\/a> include this website, catalogues, books, booklets, posters, and other materials.\u00a0 Among them are:<\/p>\n\n- our illustrated Bulletin ShelfLife:
\nA Meeting Place for Scholars, Collectors & Connoisseurs of Manuscripts, Books & the Written Word<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n- our illustrated RGME-newsletter ShelfMarks<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- our Activities<\/a> at the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies<\/a> each May and (since 2024) at the annual International Medieval Congress<\/a> each July<\/li>\n
- our\u00a0other Events<\/a><\/li>\n
- our Style Manifesto<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- Posters<\/a> for our scholarly activities, now exhibited in a Gallery on this site to show the evolution of their designs<\/li>\n
- our series of blogposts on Manuscript Studies<\/strong><\/a>, devoted to manuscripts, documents, and other written materials,
\nwith a Contents List<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n![\"Gold](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MB-Catalogue-Cover-II-logo-cropped.png\")
<\/a>The largest co-publication so far is the Illustrated Catalogue<\/strong> of
\nInsular, Anglo-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman Manuscript Art at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge<\/em><\/a> (1997) in 2 volumes. (Available here<\/a>.)<\/p>\nOur blogposts not only record the scholarly activities and other events, including the conference sessions<\/a>, receptions, and other celebrations, but also publish illustrated reports of discoveries regarding manuscript and related materials, as with here<\/a> and here<\/a>. The Contents List for the blog on Manuscript Studies<\/a> gives updates.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bembino-booklet-cover-with-border-232x300.png\")
<\/a>Likewise, our copyright high-quality digital font, Bembino<\/a>, is suitable for multiple languages.\u00a0 A donation to the Research Group, it is freely available for use.\u00a0 You can see the font in action on this very website and download it FOR FREE here: \u00a0Bembino<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 We welcome requests for corrections and additions.<\/p>\nThis site provides information on how to contact us and how to join our Mission, and become a Sponsor, Donor, or Volunteer of the RGME.<\/p>\n
The posts and pages on our site document and illustrate our history<\/a>, activities, aims, and celebrations.<\/p>\n![\"Masthead](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ShelfMarks-masthead-corrected-26-Oct-2014-300x86.png\")
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Suggestion Box<\/h2>\n
Please send your suggestions, corrections, and improvements. You could:<\/p>\n
\n- Leave your comments or questions below<\/li>\n
- Contact Us<\/a><\/li>\n
- Sign up<\/a> for our Newsletter and information about our activities.
\nSend a note to director@manuscriptevidence.org<\/a> or RGMEevents@gmail.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nVisit our Social Media:<\/p>\n
\n- our FaceBook Page<\/a><\/li>\n
- our Facebook Group<\/a><\/li>\n
- our Twitter Feed<\/a> (@rgme_mss)<\/li>\n
- our Bluesky<\/a> nest @rgmesocial.bluesky.social)<\/li>\n
- our Instagram<\/a> account (rgme94)<\/li>\n
- our LinkedIn Group<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Keep up with:<\/p>\n
\n- our Blog on Manuscript Studies<\/a> (see its growing Contents List<\/a>)<\/li>\n
- our Newsletter ShelfMarks<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Join our Activities!<\/p>\n
Join:<\/p>\n
\n- the Friends of the RGME<\/a>. Our nonprofit educational organization does not have “Members” as such (instead, we have Officers, Associates, and Volunteers<\/a>), but we cordially invite you to become a member of the Friends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Contribute to our Mission:<\/p>\n
Donations and Contributions<\/strong>, in funds or in kind, are welcome and easy to give.\u00a0 Given our low overheads, your donations have direct impact on our work and the furtherance of our mission.\u00a0 For our Section 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization, your donations may be tax-deductible to the fullest extent permitted by law.<\/p>\n\n- Contributions and Donations<\/a> (in funds and in kind)<\/li>\n
- 2025 Annual Appeal<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Thank you for your support!<\/p>\n
We look forward to welcoming you at our events!<\/p>\n
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The Research Group is a recognized Section 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization, in the form of a corporation.\u00a0 It is devoted to “lectures, discussions, and other forms of publications”.\u00a0 Donations to its mission may thus be tax-deductible.<\/p>\n
Importantly, the Group continues its activities and most of its managerial obligations as a nonprofit educational corporation only through voluntary contributions, by which no Officer receives a salary.\u00a0 Moreover, so far, there is only a slender endowment.\u00a0 The donations in time, expertise, and materials ensure that the overheads for the organization are kept to an exemplary minimum.<\/p>\n
This principle and practice means that your donations \u2014 in funds and in kind \u2014 can help to sustain, to a great extent, the activities for which our organization is dedicated. In this respect, too, the organization is exceptional (not unique) among nonprofit educational enterprises.<\/p>\n
Highlights<\/h2>\n
The 1-page Agendas<\/strong> for our Open Business Meetings<\/a> describe current and long-term activities, plans, and aspirations.\u00a0 They are available for your inspection and perusal (in the Archive<\/a>, so that you can see our progress and achievements) and for the current year:<\/p>\n Our Anniversary Years<\/strong> offer special celebrations which build upon the momentum of previous years’ activities as we move toward the future, often with the continuation of our traditional activities and, by request, the creation of new activities, both in person and (since 2022) online.<\/p>\n Poster 1 for 2024 Autumn Symposium<\/p><\/div>\n In 2014 the Group celebrated its 15th anniversary as a nonprofit educational corporation based in Princeton, New Jersey, and its 25th as an international scholarly organization founded in the United Kingdom as part of a collaborative research project on Anglo-Saxon and related manuscripts and their context.\u00a0 We celebrated in style<\/a>, as we happily record<\/a>.<\/p>\n In 2019 the Group celebrated its 20th\/30th anniversaries with multiple activities, including an Anniversary Symposium<\/a> (“The Roads Taken, or<\/em>, The Obstacle Course”).\u00a0 For it, we published an illustrated 2019 Symposium Booklet<\/a>, in the expanding series of these Booklets. All our Booklets are freely available for download on this site. See our<\/p>\n In 2024 the Group celebrated its 25th\/35th anniversaries with a pair of Spring and Autumn Symposia<\/a> and other related events and publications. See, for example,<\/p>\n Over the years, the range of interests and activities of the Group has expanded to address many forms of manuscript and other evidence across the centuries.\u00a0 Our activities and this website with our blogs illustrate these interests.<\/p>\n Please explore the items on our Menu<\/strong> to learn about our history, origins, and aims; our officers, organization, associates, and volunteers; and our activities, which include meetings, photographic exhibitions<\/a>, research projects, and publications<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Our conference sessions, both sponsored<\/a> and co-sponsored<\/a>, usually occur at the Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies<\/a> at Kalamazoo, Michigan, and sometimes elsewhere.<\/p>\n Our meetings in many centers take the form of lectures, master classes, interviews, symposia, colloquia, seminars, workshops<\/a>, and conference activities<\/a>. Our blogs report developments and discoveries. Our online or hybrid events include our series “The Research Group Speaks”<\/a>, Workshops on “The Evidence of Manuscripts, Etc.”<\/a>, and visits to collections.<\/p>\n The variety of formats allows for flexible planning for different sizes of audience, locations, subjects, and styles of presentation, with opportunities for discussion. Bringing our events to different centers by invitation makes it possible to meet more parts of our community and foster connections.<\/p>\n Our Publications<\/strong><\/a> include this website, catalogues, books, booklets, posters, and other materials.\u00a0 Among them are:<\/p>\n Our blogposts not only record the scholarly activities and other events, including the conference sessions<\/a>, receptions, and other celebrations, but also publish illustrated reports of discoveries regarding manuscript and related materials, as with here<\/a> and here<\/a>. The Contents List for the blog on Manuscript Studies<\/a> gives updates.<\/p>\n This site provides information on how to contact us and how to join our Mission, and become a Sponsor, Donor, or Volunteer of the RGME.<\/p>\n The posts and pages on our site document and illustrate our history<\/a>, activities, aims, and celebrations.<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n Please send your suggestions, corrections, and improvements. You could:<\/p>\n Visit our Social Media:<\/p>\n Keep up with:<\/p>\n Join our Activities!<\/p>\n Join:<\/p>\n Contribute to our Mission:<\/p>\n Donations and Contributions<\/strong>, in funds or in kind, are welcome and easy to give.\u00a0 Given our low overheads, your donations have direct impact on our work and the furtherance of our mission.\u00a0 For our Section 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization, your donations may be tax-deductible to the fullest extent permitted by law.<\/p>\n Thank you for your support!<\/p>\n We look forward to welcoming you at our events!<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Principles and Practices The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence exists to apply an interlinked, comprehensive approach to manuscripts and texts in other forms through the ages.\u00a0\u00a0Our work began on medieval Western European manuscripts and early modern printed books in specific collections, but, over the years, our research work and our mission have expanded to embrace […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4527,"parent":17,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":78,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19893,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/19893"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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Publications<\/h2>\n
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\nA Meeting Place for Scholars, Collectors & Connoisseurs of Manuscripts, Books & the Written Word<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
\nwith a Contents List<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/a>The largest co-publication so far is the Illustrated Catalogue<\/strong> of
\nInsular, Anglo-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman Manuscript Art at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge<\/em><\/a> (1997) in 2 volumes. (Available here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/a>Likewise, our copyright high-quality digital font, Bembino<\/a>, is suitable for multiple languages.\u00a0 A donation to the Research Group, it is freely available for use.\u00a0 You can see the font in action on this very website and download it FOR FREE here: \u00a0Bembino<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 We welcome requests for corrections and additions.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nSuggestion Box<\/h2>\n
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\nSend a note to director@manuscriptevidence.org<\/a> or RGMEevents@gmail.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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