{"id":40,"date":"2013-04-11T18:37:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T18:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2022-08-30T00:25:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T00:25:11","slug":"news-views","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/news\/news-views\/","title":{"rendered":"News &#038; Views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<em>First published on our old website on 16 May 2012, with updates here<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>Here we post news about the research, activities, and publications of our Officers, Trustees, Associates, Advisers, and Volunteers. We gladly celebrate their accomplishments with the wider world.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6485\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Ege-MS-41-Gregorys-Dialogues-III-chapter-13-lines-1-3.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6485\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6485 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Ege-MS-41-Gregorys-Dialogues-III-chapter-13-lines-1-3.jpg\" alt=\"Ege MS 41, Gregory's Dialogues III, chapter 13, lines 1-3, reproduced by permission\" width=\"310\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Ege-MS-41-Gregorys-Dialogues-III-chapter-13-lines-1-3.jpg 310w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Ege-MS-41-Gregorys-Dialogues-III-chapter-13-lines-1-3-150x41.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Ege-MS-41-Gregorys-Dialogues-III-chapter-13-lines-1-3-300x82.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8216;Nuper (=&#8217;Recently&#8221;) . . . &#8216;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Newest News<\/h2>\n<h3>Events<\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/the-research-group-speaks-the-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Research Group Speaks: The Series<\/a>\u00a0(2021\u2013)<\/h4>\n<p>Responding to the need to suspend in-person events, the RGME has begun a series of online episodes in the forms of lectures, interviews, workshops, webinars, roundtables, and the like.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/the-research-group-speaks-the-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Research Group Speaks: The Series<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_15886\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15886\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-15886 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Lagos40_kopie-300x125.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Lagos40_kopie-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Lagos40_kopie-1024x427.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Lagos40_kopie-150x63.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Lagos40_kopie-768x320.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Lagos40_kopie-1536x640.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Lagos40_kopie-2048x853.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15886\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisbon, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga: The mid 15th-century Saint Vincent Panels, attributed to Nuno Gon\u00e7alves. Image via Creative Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/profile\/seminars-workshops-colloquia-and-symposia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Symposia, Workshops, Masterclasses<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_12957\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12957\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12957 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2020-Symposium-Poster1-with-border-232x300.png\" alt=\"2020 Symposium &quot;From Cover to Cover&quot; Poster 1\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2020-Symposium-Poster1-with-border-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2020-Symposium-Poster1-with-border-116x150.png 116w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2020-Symposium-Poster1-with-border.png 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12957\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2020 Symposium Poster 1<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>2022 Spring and Autumn Symposia on &#8220;Structured Knowledge&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n(2 April and 15 October)<\/li>\n<li><strong>2022 Spring Symposium<\/strong><br \/>\n2 April online<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2022-spring-symposium-on-structures-of-knowledge\" target=\"&quot;_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 Spring Symposium on &#8220;Structures of Knowledge&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>2022 Autumn Symposium<\/strong><br \/>\n15 October online or hybrid (TBD)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2022-autumn-symposium-on-supports-for-knowledge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 Autumn Symposium on &#8220;Supports for Knowledge&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2020 Spring Symposium &#8220;From Cover to Cover&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n(intended for 13\u201314 March at Princeton University, but cancelled)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2020-spring-symposium-save-the-date\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2020 Spring Symposium: Save the Date<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2019 Anniversary Symposium<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2019-anniversary-symposium-on-roads-taken\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2019 Anniversary Symposium<\/a> at Princeton University in April considered &#8220;The Roads Taken, Or, The Obstacle Course&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 As part of the Program, Masterclasses were given in Special Collections of Firestone Library and at the Princeton University Art Museum.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11874\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11874\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11874 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Poster-1-for-2019-Symposium-done-15-April-2019-with-border-232x300.png\" alt=\"Poster 1 for 2019 Anniversary Symposium, with symposium information with images of manuscript and early printed pages..\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Poster-1-for-2019-Symposium-done-15-April-2019-with-border-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Poster-1-for-2019-Symposium-done-15-April-2019-with-border-116x150.png 116w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Poster-1-for-2019-Symposium-done-15-April-2019-with-border.png 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poster 1 for 2019 Symposium<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For earlier Symposia and other Events, see <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/profile\/seminars-workshops-colloquia-and-symposia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seminars, Workshops, Colloquia, and Symposia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/congress-activities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>At this Congress, held each May at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, we hold an Open Business Meeting and sponsor and co-sponsor Sessions, as well as a Reception.\u00a0 After the cancellation of the 2020 Congress, the Congress in both 2021 and 2022 has been held online.\u00a0 Whereas the Open Business Meetings can take place online, the Receptions are postponed until they might occur, once again, in person.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2022 Congress (online)<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2022-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 International Congress on Medieval Studies Program<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2021 Congress (online)<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2021-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 International Congress on Medieval Studies Report<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2020 Congress (cancelled)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With the approval of our 4 proposed sponsored and co-sponsored Sessions for the 2020 Congress, we issued the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2020-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-call-for-papers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Call for Papers<\/a> (CFP) and proposed the programs for these Sessions.\u00a0\u00a0 As the date approached, the entire Congress had to be cancelled.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2020-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-program-announced\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2020 International Congress on Medieval Studies Program Announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2019 Congress<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our activities for the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2019-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-program-details\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2019 Congress<\/a> , including 4 sponsored and co-sponsored Sessions as well as the Open Business Meeting and an Anniversary Reception, have been successfully accomplished.\u00a0 A Report is in progress.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Posters2-1-Alfonso-X-Session-with-border.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11005 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Posters2-1-Alfonso-X-Session-with-border-232x300.png\" alt=\"Poster for our Sponsored Session on the &quot; 'Libro de los juegos': Big Results from Small Data&quot;, organized by Linde M. Brocato and sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence at the 2018 International Congress on Medieval Studies. Poster set in RGME Bembino.\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Posters2-1-Alfonso-X-Session-with-border-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Posters2-1-Alfonso-X-Session-with-border-116x150.png 116w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Posters2-1-Alfonso-X-Session-with-border.png 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><strong>2018 Congress<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We report the successful accomplishment of the 2018 International Congress on Medieval Studies.\u00a0 We had 5 Sponsored and C0-Sponsored Sessions, a Co-Sponsored Reception, and an Open Business Meeting.\u00a0 See our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2018-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2018 Congress Report<\/a>, with illustrations, Posters, and Abstracts of Papers.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/panels-at-the-m-mla-convention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association<\/a> (M-MLA)<\/h4>\n<p>With the organizational skills of our Associate Justin Hastings, we regularly have a Permanent Panel at the Annual Convention of the M-MLA, which moves from place to place each November.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2019 (Chicago)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We prepare for the 2019 Convention in November. See our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2019-m-mla-call-for-papers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2019-M-MLA Call for Papers<\/a> .<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2018 (Kansas City)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the 2018 Convention, our Panel addressed the theme of &#8220;Consuming Cultures and Manuscript Evidence&#8221;.\u00a0 See our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2018-m-mla-call-for-papers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2018 M-MLA Call for Papers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2018-m-mla-panel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2018 M-MLA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10567\" style=\"width: 614px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/c13778-44-big-cropped-to-initial.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10567\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10567 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/c13778-44-big-cropped-to-initial.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 The British Library Board. Harley MS 628, folio 160 verso. the initial 'd' for 'Domini'.\" width=\"604\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/c13778-44-big-cropped-to-initial.jpg 604w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/c13778-44-big-cropped-to-initial-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/c13778-44-big-cropped-to-initial-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10567\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 The British Library Board. Harley MS 628, folio 160 verso, detail. Psalm 101 begins with the initial &#8216;d&#8217; for &#8216;Domini&#8217;.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>The Newest Version of Our Multi-Lingual Font <em>Bembino<\/em> and Its Companion Booklet<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>We launch the next version of our multi-lingual digital font <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/bembino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bembino<\/a>:\u00a0 Following the launch of <strong>Version 1.4<\/strong> (April 2017) and <strong>Version 1.5<\/strong> (April 2018), we progressed to <strong>Version 1.6<\/strong> (January 2019). The accompanying <em>Bembino<\/em> Booklet, updated for Version 1.6, describes the aims and purposes of the font, with font tables and specimens of texts in various languages.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to requests, the series of Versions of Bembino add more languages and more features.\u00a0 <strong>Version 1.5<\/strong> includes, for example, Ethiopic by special request.\u00a0 Thus it extends the usefulness of the font beyond the diacritics for Ethiopic \u2014 which, also by special request, Bembino has included from its very first issued Version (<strong>1.0<\/strong>).Also by request, <strong>Version 1.6 <\/strong>adds Old Rus and more Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>Both the font and its accompanying <em>Bembino<\/em> Booklet are available for FREE on our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/bembino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bembino<\/a> WebPage.<\/p>\n<p>We continue to expand the font, preparing for the next Version.\u00a0 As always, we welcome suggestions and requests.\u00a0 Please <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contact Us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>A <em>Multi-Lingual<\/em> Booklet for <em>Bembino<\/em><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_10800\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Cover-Page-from-MultiLingual_pages-with-border.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10800\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10800 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Cover-Page-from-MultiLingual_pages-with-border-232x300.png\" alt=\"Cover page for 'Multi-Lingual Bembino' demonstrating specimens from a wide range of languages typeset in Bembino\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Cover-Page-from-MultiLingual_pages-with-border-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Cover-Page-from-MultiLingual_pages-with-border-116x150.png 116w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Cover-Page-from-MultiLingual_pages-with-border.png 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Multi-Lingual Bembino&#8221; Booklet Cover<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9983\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bembino-booklet-cover-with-border1.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9983\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9983 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bembino-booklet-cover-with-border1-232x300.png\" alt=\"Cover of Booklet for Bembino font\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bembino-booklet-cover-with-border1-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bembino-booklet-cover-with-border1-116x150.png 116w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bembino-booklet-cover-with-border1.png 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Bembino&#8221; Booklet Cover<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/bembino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bembino<\/a>, we also offer a booklet (published in March 2018), to stand alongside the \u201cBembino\u201d Booklet which describes and illustrates the Font.\u00a0 The newer Booklet, <em>Multi-Lingual Bembino<\/em>, shows examples of the font typeset in multiple languages.<\/p>\n<p>In 24 pages, this booklet contains examples of some of the wide range of languages that can be typeset using the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/bembino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Bembino\u2019<\/a> font.\u00a0 The chosen text is the same for all examples: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Book_of_Exodus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Exodus<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Exodus+20&amp;version=KJV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chapter 20 verses 1\u201317<\/a>, one of the sets of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ten_Commandments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Ten Commandments\u2019<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Old_Testament\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Old Testament<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The exemplified languages appear in alphabetical order by their English name (so <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Welsh_language\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Welsh\u2019<\/a> rather than \u2018Cymraeg\u2019), from &#8216;Afrikaans&#8217; to &#8216;Yoruba&#8217;.\u00a0 Many of the languages that use basic Latin are omitted, as are the languages for some of the former Russian Federation countries that use <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cyrillic_script\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cyrillic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More about this booklet, available for FREE, <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/multi-lingual-bembino\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Its versions have, for example, added Old Norse and revised the Hungarian specimen.<\/p>\n<h3>Our 2019 Anniversary Year<\/h3>\n<p>We held a series of celebrations for our Anniversary Year in 2019, when the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence\u00a0 celebrated its 20th year as a nonprofit educational corporation, and its 30th year as an international scholarly organization.\u00a0 The styles of our Anniversary celebrations are worthy of recollection:\u00a0 As <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/events-list\/receptions-and-parties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2014-congress-on-medieval-studies-accomplished\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/business-meetings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We welcome suggestions, requests, and contributions.\u00a0 Please join us and <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contact Us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>End-of-Year Countdowns<\/h3>\n<p>As 2017 drew to a close and 2018 approached, we recollected our accomplishments over the year in a &#8220;Countdown to 2018&#8221;, as a series of posts on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Research-Group-on-Manuscript-Evidence-259443617456668\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Research Group FaceBook Page<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=1581933948540955&amp;id=259443617456668\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Part I<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=1582451601822523&amp;id=259443617456668\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Part IX<\/a>. We celebrate these accomplishments and heartily thank our organizers, donors, hosts, sponsors, trustees, associates, contributors, and volunteers.\u00a0 This progression prepared the groundwork for our next Anniversary Year.<\/p>\n<h3>The Annual Appeal<\/h3>\n<p>Our Annual Appeals address our needs, activities, and plans, focusing upon the current state of activities and aims.<\/p>\n<p>For example, preparing for 2019, our Appeal focused upon the Anniversary celebrations.\u00a0 Its approach drew upon the success of our 2018 Appeal.\u00a0 Preparing for 2018, the end-of-year <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/10397\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017 Annual Appeal Letter<\/a> describes our activities, goals, requirements, and wishes for donations in funds and in kind.\u00a0 In 2019, for the first time, we also held an Appeal online through our Director\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/donate\/1152594261538642\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Giving Tuesday Fundraiser<\/a>.\u00a0 These Appeals have been renewed each year, along with our Director&#8217;s Birthday Fundraiser through the RGME <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Research-Group-on-Manuscript-Evidence-259443617456668\" class=\"broken_link\">FaceBook Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to restrictions on in-person events from 2020 onward, the Appeals of 2021 and 2022 additionally incorporate requests for support for the development of our online events.\u00a0 These events include the series of episodes for <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/the-research-group-speaks-the-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Research Group Speaks<\/a> which began in July 2021, the return to our tradition of Symposia with the pair of <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2022-spring-and-autumn-symposia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 Spring and Autumn Symposia<\/a> on &#8220;Structured Knowledge&#8221;, and future plans.<\/p>\n<p>We thank all our donors for their contributions.\u00a0 Both the funds and the encouragement give much inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>You might donate easily though our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/contributions-and-donations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contributions and Donations<\/a>.\u00a0 Your donations to our nonprofit educational corporation may be tax-deductible.\u00a0 We thank you for your help!<\/p>\n<h3>More Honorary Associates<\/h3>\n<p>More Honorary Associates have joined the Research Group.\u00a0 See the updated list below and the full list among our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/officers-associates-and-volunteers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Officers, Associates, and Volunteers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10400\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P6100049-Things-are-Looking-Up-10-June-2016.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10400\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10400 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P6100049-Things-are-Looking-Up-10-June-2016-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Things Are Looking Up&quot;\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P6100049-Things-are-Looking-Up-10-June-2016-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P6100049-Things-are-Looking-Up-10-June-2016-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P6100049-Things-are-Looking-Up-10-June-2016-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Things Are Looking Up&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<h3>The Takamiya Collection of Medieval Manuscripts and Documents now at the Beinecke Library<\/h3>\n<p>The Takamiya Collection of <em>Medieval English Manuscripts<\/em> assembled by our Associate Toshiyuki Takamiya over decades since 1968 has now moved to the Beinecke Library at Yale, where it finds a welcoming home.\u00a0 In 2017, this transfer yields an impressive series of events and an illustrated catalogue in full color:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>an exhibition at the Library showcases highlights of this collection together with selected manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180609045110\/http:\/\/beinecke.library.yale.edu:80\/exhibitions\/making-english-book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Making the Medieval English Book<\/a>, on display from 1 September to 10 December 2017,<\/li>\n<li>an associated conference on 6\u20137 October 2017 focuses on the scope of the collection, with contributions by numerous experts (including some Associates of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, among them Toshiyuki Takamiya himself): <a href=\"http:\/\/beinecke.library.yale.edu\/about\/news\/making-english-book-conference-october-6-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conference<\/a>, and<\/li>\n<li>a published catalogue illustrates and describes the collection:\u00a0 Raymond Clemens, Diane Ducharme, and Emily Ulrich, <em>A Gathering of Medieval English Manuscripts: The Takamiya Collection at the Beinecke Library<\/em> (Yale University, 2017).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is a special treat to see both on display at the Beinecke and in the exhibition Catalogue the very Takamiya fragments which, with Toshi\u2019s characteristic generosity, visited the Parker Library and served as focus for our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/seminar-on-the-evidence-of-manuscripts-august-1994\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1994 Seminar on \u201cMedieval Manuscript Fragments\u201d<\/a>.\u00a0 For example:\u00a0 Takamiya MSS 21, 89, and 90 (described and illustrated by Clemens <em>et al.<\/em>, pages 36\u201337 and 42).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10196\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/P9080019-Long-View-of-Takamiya-Collection-Beinecke-Library-Sept-2017.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10196\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10196 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/P9080019-Long-View-of-Takamiya-Collection-Beinecke-Library-Sept-2017-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Long View of the Takamiya Collection Exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in September 2017. Photograph by Mildred Budny.\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/P9080019-Long-View-of-Takamiya-Collection-Beinecke-Library-Sept-2017-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/P9080019-Long-View-of-Takamiya-Collection-Beinecke-Library-Sept-2017-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/P9080019-Long-View-of-Takamiya-Collection-Beinecke-Library-Sept-2017-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Long View of the Takamiya Collection Exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in September 2017. Photograph by Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10197\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/P9080024-Case-Study-of-Takamiya-Collection-Exhibition-Beinecke-Library-cropped.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10197\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10197 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/P9080024-Case-Study-of-Takamiya-Collection-Exhibition-Beinecke-Library-cropped-1024x1002.jpg\" alt=\"Case Study of the Takamiya Collection Exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in September 2017. Photograph by Mildred Budny.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/P9080024-Case-Study-of-Takamiya-Collection-Exhibition-Beinecke-Library-cropped-1024x1002.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/P9080024-Case-Study-of-Takamiya-Collection-Exhibition-Beinecke-Library-cropped-150x147.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/P9080024-Case-Study-of-Takamiya-Collection-Exhibition-Beinecke-Library-cropped-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Case Study of the Takamiya Collection Exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in September 2017. Photograph by Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We look forward to learning more from the Takamiya Collection Conference.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<h3>People: <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/profile\/officers-associates-and-volunteers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Officers, Associates &amp; Volunteers<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>We celebrate transitions, accomplishments, awards, publications.<\/p>\n<h4>Retirement<\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_8624\" style=\"width: 272px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/P6220077-Adelaide-Meets-New-Leaf-at-the-Peacock-Inn.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8624\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8624 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/P6220077-Adelaide-Meets-New-Leaf-at-the-Peacock-Inn-262x300.jpg\" alt=\"Adelaide Bennett holds up the newly presented leaf from a dismembered Book of Hours which she saw, while still whole, years ago.\" width=\"262\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/P6220077-Adelaide-Meets-New-Leaf-at-the-Peacock-Inn-262x300.jpg 262w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/P6220077-Adelaide-Meets-New-Leaf-at-the-Peacock-Inn-131x150.jpg 131w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/P6220077-Adelaide-Meets-New-Leaf-at-the-Peacock-Inn-895x1024.jpg 895w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/P6220077-Adelaide-Meets-New-Leaf-at-the-Peacock-Inn.jpg 1374w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adelaide approaching retirement and &#8220;Turning Over a New Leaf&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Adelaide Bennett Hagens<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our Trustee <strong>Adelaide Bennett Hagens <\/strong>upon her retirement on 1 July 2016 from the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20181205235950\/http:\/\/ica.princeton.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Index of Christian Art<\/a> at Princeton University. With thanks for her contributions to the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence as a faithful Trustee, we now present a Page on our website devoted to reporting her list of publications and interests: <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/adelaide-bennett-hagens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adelaide Bennett Hagens<\/a>. We look forward to the next stages of her research.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations for the 2 Sessions in Adelaide&#8217;s honor, organized by the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University, at the 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies in May 2017.\u00a0\u00a0 Details and some pictures in our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2017-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017 international Congress on Medieval Studies Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And now congratulations also for the publication of the collection of essays as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brepols.net\/Pages\/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9781909400795-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tributes to Adelaide Bennett Hagens:\u00a0 Manuscripts, Iconography, and the Late Medieval Viewer<\/a>, edited by Pamela A. Patton and Judith K. Golden (Tournhout, Belgium, 2017), including essays by some Research Group Trustees and Associates.<\/p>\n<h3>Congress Sessions in Honor of Scholars, Teachers, Colleagues<\/h3>\n<p><em>Adelaide Bennett Hagens<\/em><\/p>\n<p>See above!<\/p>\n<p><em>Richard K. Emmerson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations also to our Trustee Richard K. Emmerson for the Sessions in his honor at the 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies. See, for example, our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2017-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017 International Congress on Medieval Studies Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Publications &amp; Awards<\/h4>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Herbert R. Broderick<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Herbert for the award for his publication on <a href=\"http:\/\/undpress.nd.edu\/books\/P03319\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Moses the Egyptian in the Illustrated Old English Hexateuch:\u00a0 London, British Library Cotton MS Claudius B.iv<\/a> (University of Notre Dame Press, 2017).\u00a0 (We celebrate the book below.)\u00a0\u00a0 Details of the award on the way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Emily Rose<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our Sponsor, Emily Rose, for the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180503002311\/https:\/\/pbk.org\/WEB\/PBK_Member\/PROGRAMS\/AWARDS___FELLOWSHIPS\/PBK_Book_Awards\/PBK_Member\/Programs\/Awards___Fellowships\/Book_Awards.aspx?hkey=2e9f4fb1-8783-4a57-be70-477f88a62c69\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ralph Waldo Emerson Award<\/a> of The Phi Beta Kappa Society for her first book, <em>The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2015). The Ralph Waldo Emerson Award honors \u201cscholarly studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity, including works in the fields of history, philosophy and religion as well as such fields as anthropology and the social sciences.\u201d Previous winners include such eminent authors as Richard Hofstadter, Howard Mumford Jones, Peter Gay, Eugen Weber, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, Peter Brown, Carl N. Degler, Gordon S. Wood, Caroline Walker Bynum, Jill Lepore and David Nirenberg. Currently Emily is Visiting Scholar in the Program in Medieval Studies at Harvard University.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6605\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCN0190-Enlightened-for-Web.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6605\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6605 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCN0190-Enlightened-for-Web-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"The Hosts of the Party engage in animated conversation. Photography \u00a9 Mildred Budny\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCN0190-Enlightened-for-Web-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCN0190-Enlightened-for-Web-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCN0190-Enlightened-for-Web-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCN0190-Enlightened-for-Web.jpg 1216w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Enlightened&#8221;: Emily Rose at the 2014 Anniversary Party<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Her generous hospitality and sponsorship for Research Group Events over the years are recorded gladly on many pages of our website. One of the many happy occasions is the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2014-anniversary-party-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2014 Anniversary Party<\/a>. We look forward with great interest to the next stages in her research, including her next book.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Timothy C. Graham<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our Associate, Prof. <strong>Timothy C. Graham<\/strong>, for his <a href=\"http:\/\/news.unm.edu\/news\/unm-professor-receives-national-excellence-in-teaching-award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2016 CARA Excellence in Teaching Award<\/a> from the Medieval Academy of America!\u00a0 We first met Tim when he arrived as the Research Assistant for the 5-year Leverhulme Trust Research Project on &#8216;Anglo-Saxon and Related Manuscripts&#8217; at the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20161203100608\/http:\/\/www.corpus.cam.ac.uk:80\/about-us\/parker-library\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parker Library<\/a> of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (1989\u20131994).\u00a0 As one of the Founder Members of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, which emerged from that Project, Tim generously contributed his dedication and expertise to the intensive research process and its many discoveries.\u00a0 We admire his progress over the years as scholar, colleague, administrator, and teacher, and express good wishes for his every endeavor.<\/p>\n<h3>Interviews<\/h3>\n<h4>Some People Tell Our Story<\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_8609\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Interview-done-25-Sept-16-Page-1-with-border.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8609\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8609 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Interview-done-25-Sept-16-Page-1-with-border-232x300.png\" alt=\"Booklet Page 1 of the 'Interview with our Font &amp; Layout Designer' (2015-16)\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Interview-done-25-Sept-16-Page-1-with-border-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Interview-done-25-Sept-16-Page-1-with-border-116x150.png 116w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Interview-done-25-Sept-16-Page-1-with-border.png 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Booklet Page 1 of the &#8216;Interview with our Font &amp; Layout Designer&#8217; (2015-16).<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Leslie J. French<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first in a Series of Interviews for our website invites our Associate Leslie J. French to describe the steps through which our distinctive design approach developed.\u00a0 His designs are responsible for, among many other things since the beginning of our organization, most of our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/profile\/publications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Publications<\/a> (but not our website, the donation of our Webmaster). They include our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/our-logo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Logo<\/a>, the <strong>Illustrated Catalogue<\/strong> of <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180901230721\/https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/profile\/publications\/insular-anglo-saxon-and-early-anglo-norman-manuscript-art-at-corpus-christi-college-cambridge-1997\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Insular, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman Manuscript Art at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge<\/a>, our Illustrated Bulletin <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/shelflife\/shelflife-the-bulletin-of-the-research-group-on-manuscript-evidence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ShelfLife<\/a>, our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/style-manifesto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Style Manifesto<\/a>, our Posters and Program Booklets, and our copyright multilingual font <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/bembino\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bembino<\/a><a>.\u00a0 That this font, and the other designs, are his donation to the Research Group, is subject for our thanks and celebration.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Responding to a set of questions, Leslie decided to present the responses in printed form, in a booklet set in our font and with our design principles.\u00a0 The interviewer&#8217;s description presents the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/our-logo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interview with Our Font and Layout Designer<\/a>.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mildred Budny<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8531\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Helen-M\u00fcller-at-Home-lightened-NYC-May-1974.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8531\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8531 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Helen-M\u00fcller-at-Home-lightened-NYC-May-1974-300x228.png\" alt=\"Helen M\u00fcller at Home lightened NYC May 1974\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Helen-M\u00fcller-at-Home-lightened-NYC-May-1974-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Helen-M\u00fcller-at-Home-lightened-NYC-May-1974-150x114.png 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Helen-M\u00fcller-at-Home-lightened-NYC-May-1974-1024x778.png 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Helen-M\u00fcller-at-Home-lightened-NYC-May-1974.png 1426w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With Helen Maguire Muller (Vassar &#8217;44) at her home in New York City, May 1974<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A radio interview with our Director airs on Wednesday, 12 October, on <a href=\"http:\/\/library-cafe.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Library Caf\u00e9<\/a>, hosted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/06797620742936417299\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Hill<\/a>, Art Librarian of Vassar College. The series can be heard live on WVKR FM 91.3 Wednesday afternoons between 12:00 Noon and 1:00 p.m. ET (17.00-18.00 GMT) during the academic year.<\/p>\n<p>Delighted to join Tom&#8217;s series, our Director reflects on formative educational experiences, ranging from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sidwell_Friends_School\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sidwell Friends School<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vassar_College\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vassar College<\/a>, to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_College_London\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University College London<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Cambridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Cambridge<\/a>, and beyond. Names are Named. Including some dedicated teachers, patrons, and friends, and some favorite libraries and manuscripts.\u00a0 Others, too, but that would be a longer program or a follow-up. Meanwhile, we offer a happy illustrated souvenir of <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-visit-to-the-library-cafe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Visit to the Library Caf\u00e9.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tom&#8217;s invitation has inspired a series of reports and reflections, with the benefit, wisdom, and empathy of Hindsight, from the Research Group Archives recording for our website the remarkable series of <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/seminars-on-the-evidence-of-manuscripts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seminars and Workshops on &#8220;The Evidence of Manuscripts&#8221;<\/a> which accompanied our first Research Project and launched our long-term program of <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/news\/news-views\/\">Events<\/a> and Conference <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/congress-activities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Activities<\/a>.\u00a0 As the series of reports has unfolded over the summer of 2016, some of our Associates have said that they wished that they had known about us then and could have attended.\u00a0 Here is a way to be there, and without the jetlag.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9853\" style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/eye85.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9853\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9853 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/eye85-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"Miss Mistie Looks Quizzical. Photography \u00a9 Mildred Budny.\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/eye85-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/eye85-138x150.jpg 138w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/eye85-939x1024.jpg 939w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/eye85.jpg 1038w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Quizzical&#8221;. Photography \u00a9 Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>\u00a0\u00a0 A CopyCat Editor also Volunteers<\/h4>\n<p>Just for fun and pun, an interview with our CopyCat Editor In Residence, a lovely Purrsian cat who sometimes, when we have the occasion to house-sit for her, gives expert advice and encouragement for the preparations of our Events.\u00a0 Naturally, we serve as willing Lap for her as LapCat, while we work at the LapTop, all in LapTipTop Fashion.<\/p>\n<p>As volunteer CopyCat Editor, she often sprawls across our proof-sheets or photographs (with permission).\u00a0 In this way, she beautifully Lies Down On The Job.<\/p>\n<p>Our first exclusive interview with her \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/center-fold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center Fold<\/a> in our blog \u2014 has led, by popular request, to the opening of her very own <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/misties-fan-page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fan Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Appointments and Promotions<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Clair Fanger<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our Associate <strong>Claire Fanger<\/strong> for the accomplishment of tenure as <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200516131952\/https:\/\/reli.rice.edu\/people\/faculty\/claire-fanger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Associate Professor in the Religion Department<\/a> at Rice University! Her interests and <a href=\"https:\/\/rice.academia.edu\/ClaireFanger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publications<\/a> are many and varied. Following her work over the years, partly through our collaboration in the co-sponsored Sessions with the <a href=\"http:\/\/societasmagica.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Societas Magica<\/a> at the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, we gladly celebrate this next stage in her teaching and research.<\/p>\n<h3>Publications<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Judith H. Oliver<\/em> and<em> Henry D. Schilb<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our Associates, Dr. <strong>Henry D. Schilb<\/strong> and Prof. Emerita <strong>Judith H. Oliver<\/strong>, for the publication of their articles in the collection of essays, edited by Susan Boynton and Diane J. Reilly, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brepols.net\/Pages\/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503554372-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Resounding Images:\u00a0 Medieval Intersections of Art, Music, and Sound<\/em><\/a> (Brepols, 2016).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Sean M. Winslow<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our Associate <strong>Sean M. Winslow<\/strong> for the completion in November 2015 of his Ph.D. dissertation for the University of Toronto on <em>Ethiopian Manuscript Culture: Practices and Contexts<\/em>, now available for <a href=\"https:\/\/tspace.library.utoronto.ca\/handle\/1807\/71392\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download<\/a>.\u00a0 A publication we have been waiting for!\u00a0 For example, as we were preparing to launch our multilingual font <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/news\/news-views\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bembino<\/a>, his request for Ethiopic diacritics expanded its scope fundamentally.\u00a0 We are glad for these requests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Jesse D. Hurlbut<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We welcome the publication of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brepolsonline.net\/doi\/abs\/10.1484\/M.STAH-EB.5.109315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;The Mystic Lamb of Ghent: Aldermen\u2019s Seal, Altarpiece, and <em>Tableau Vivant<\/em>&#8216;<\/a> by our Associate and Webmaster, <strong>Jesse D. Hurlbut<\/strong>, in the collection of essays on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brepols.net\/Pages\/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503543444-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medieval Coins and Seals: Constructing Identity, Signifying Power<\/a>, edited by Susan Solway (Brepols, 2015).\u00a0 We learned of this paper through a preview, in connection with our own sponsored Research Project on <strong>Medieval Seals, Seal Matrices &amp; Documents<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 Reading a preview of this paper with admiration, we have looked forward to its publication, now accomplished.\u00a0 It focuses on an intricate aspect of a complex, dynamic subject, which we find fascinating.\u00a0 We congratulate him on his move to the Karl-Franzens-Universit\u00e4t Graz in 2017.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Gregory T. Clark<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6373\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_20160208_0001-2016-for-Web.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6373\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6373 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_20160208_0001-2016-for-Web-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dustjacket cover for the book on 'Art in a Time of War' (2016) by Gregory T. Clark, including part of an illuminated manuscript image from a Book of Hours made in Paris circa 1415 to 1425\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_20160208_0001-2016-for-Web-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_20160208_0001-2016-for-Web-121x150.jpg 121w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_20160208_0001-2016-for-Web.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dustjacket cover for the book on &#8216;Art in a Time of War&#8217; (2016) by Gregory T. Clark, including part of an illuminated manuscript image from a Book of Hours made in Paris circa 1415 to 1425.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Congratulations to our new Associate, Prof. <strong>Gregory T. Clark<\/strong>, for his new publication of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pims.ca\/publications\/new-and-recent-titles\/publication\/art-in-a-time-of-war-the-master-of-morgan-453-and-manuscript-illumination-in-paris-during-the-english-occupation-1419-1435\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art in a Time of War: The Master of Morgan 453 and Manuscript Illumination in Paris during the English Occupation (1419\u20131435<\/a> (2016). We have eagerly awaited its appearance.\u00a0 This richly illustrated book, published by the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, grew from Greg&#8217;s doctoral dissertation (Princeton, 1988).\u00a0 The analysis of so rich a range of manuscripts is illuminating indeed.<\/p>\n<p>We thank him for the gift of a copy of the book.\u00a0 Happily, we show the front cover of its dust jacket.\u00a0 The image shows the illustration in a Book of Hours of the &#8216;Angels Calling on Jewish Men to Receive the Holy Spirit&#8217; (corresponding to the Acts of the Apostles 2:43), painted by the &#8216;Master of Morgan 453&#8217; in Paris <em>circa<\/em> 1415\u20131420.<\/p>\n<p>The illustration appears in New York, Morgan Library and Museum, MS M.1000, fol. 148v. We show its full page, and encourage you to visit the full series of illustrations in this book displayed on the <a href=\"http:\/\/ica.themorgan.org\/manuscript\/thumbs\/76923\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Corsair website<\/a>. The same Master&#8217;s work is also on view for <a href=\"http:\/\/ica.themorgan.org\/manuscript\/76786\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Morgan Library and Museum, MS M.453<\/a>, another Book of Hours in the same collection. Beautiful work.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6481\" style=\"width: 718px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/M1000148v.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6481\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6481 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/M1000148v-708x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Morgan Library and Museum, MS M.1000, folio 148 verso, reproduced by permission\" width=\"708\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/M1000148v-708x1024.jpg 708w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/M1000148v-104x150.jpg 104w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/M1000148v-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morgan Library and Museum, MS M.1000, folio 148 verso<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9885\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Front-Cover-for-Finney-2016-Encyclopedia.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9885\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9885 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Front-Cover-for-Finney-2016-Encyclopedia-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"Front Cover for 'The Erdmans Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology', edited by Corby Finney.\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Front-Cover-for-Finney-2016-Encyclopedia-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Front-Cover-for-Finney-2016-Encyclopedia-110x150.jpg 110w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Front-Cover-for-Finney-2016-Encyclopedia-751x1024.jpg 751w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Front-Cover-for-Finney-2016-Encyclopedia.jpg 1263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A magnificent accomplishment.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Paul Corby Finney<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Paul Corby Finney for the magnificent set of illustrated volumes which offer a comprehensive guide to the complex, wide-ranging, and endlessly fascinating materials which represent the legacy, and challenges, of Early Christian Art and Archaeology.\u00a0 A labor of love, pertinacity, resourcefulness, dedication, and generosity, his editorship of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eerdmans.com\/Products\/3811\/the-eerdmans-encyclopedia-of-early-christian-art-and-archaeology.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">The Eerdmans Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology <\/a><\/em> (2017) has resulted, happily, in a substantial publication which graces our shelves in a prominent, and prized place.<\/p>\n<p>We thank Corby for his generous gift of the books, and we happily report that already they have become a regular companion as our researches and conversations about a myriad of subjects guide us to their pages for explanations, descriptions, bibliographical references, and directions for further explorations.\u00a0 Excellent!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Herbert R. Broderick<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Herbert for the publication of his dedicated study of <a href=\"http:\/\/undpress.nd.edu\/books\/P03319\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Moses the Egyptian in the Illustrated Old English Hexateuch:\u00a0 London, British Library Cotton MS Claudius B.iv<\/a> (University of Notre Dame Press, 2017). Until the online publication of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Claudius_B_IV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full digital facsimile of the manuscript<\/a> in color, it was necessary to study it in person, in photographs, and\/or in the full printed facsimile (Copenhagen, 1974, mostly in black-and-white).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10393\" style=\"width: 645px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/BL-MS-CLaudius-B-IV-fol-122v-.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10393\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10393 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/BL-MS-CLaudius-B-IV-fol-122v-.png\" alt=\"\u00a9 The British Library Board. Claudius MS B. IV, folio 122v. Illustrations for Numbers 20:14. Moses strikes the rock, and more.\" width=\"635\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/BL-MS-CLaudius-B-IV-fol-122v-.png 635w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/BL-MS-CLaudius-B-IV-fol-122v--150x145.png 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/BL-MS-CLaudius-B-IV-fol-122v--300x290.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 The British Library Board. Claudius MS B. IV, folio 122v. Illustrations for Numbers 20:14. Moses strikes the rock, and more.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is a manuscript that we know well, from various perspectives, and for some time we have learned from Herbert&#8217;s conversations and lectures as this project advanced.\u00a0 For example, Herbert spoke about his long-term work toward the book for our 2014 Colloquium on <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2014-colloquium-on-when-the-dust-has-settled-program-accomplished\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">When the Dust Has Settled<\/a>.\u00a0 Its Booklet includes the Abstract for his paper, entitled &#8220;Me and the Man of La Mancha:\u00a0 Pursuing the Impossible Dream (Considering Moses in the <em>Illustrated Old English Hexateuch<\/em>)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It is a treat to see the accomplished project!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Valerio Cappozzo<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Valerio for the publication of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olschki.it\/libro\/9788822264954\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Dizionario dei sogni nel Medioevo. Il Somniale Danielis in manoscritti letterari<\/em>.\u00a0 Biblioteca dell&#8217;\u00abArchivum Romanicum\u00bb &#8211; Serie I: Storia, Letteratura, Paleografia, vol. 466 (2018).<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10904\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_0177-Valerio-at-the-Podium-for-Dream-Session-AZO-2015.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10904\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10904\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_0177-Valerio-at-the-Podium-for-Dream-Session-AZO-2015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Valerio at the Podium at his 'Dream Session' for the 2015 International Congress on Medieval Studies. Photograph \u00a9 Mildred Budny.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_0177-Valerio-at-the-Podium-for-Dream-Session-AZO-2015-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_0177-Valerio-at-the-Podium-for-Dream-Session-AZO-2015-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_0177-Valerio-at-the-Podium-for-Dream-Session-AZO-2015-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valerio at the Podium at his &#8216;Dream Session&#8217; for the 2015 International Congress on Medieval Studies.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thanks to Valerio&#8217;s skills, collegiality, and generosity, we have learned about this project along some stages of its preparation and refinement, through his papers and his session for us and the Societas Magica at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/cappozzo-2015-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/cappozzo-2012-congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2012<\/a>, as well, magically, through his Booklet for his 2015 Session. Gladly we welcome this illustrated Booklet among our Publications. You may find it freely here: <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2015-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-events-accomplished\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015 Congress Accomplished<\/a>. We thank him for his inspiration, vision, expertise, and friendship.<\/p>\n<p>Valerio&#8217;s FaceBook Page for the published volume and its &#8216;appearances&#8217; in various presentations, reviews, and notices allows us to keep up with its progress and its audience even after the printed publication itself: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/valeriocappozzo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">The Medieval Dream Dictionary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In his words:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em> The Medieval Dream Dictionary, <\/em>composed of entries coming from Latin and vernacular Italian versions of the <em>Somniale Danielis<\/em> \u2013 known as <em>The Dreambook of Daniel the Prophet<\/em> \u2013 which range from the ninth century to the first printed editions through 1550. This manual illustrates more than 3200 years of the history of dream interpretation from Ancient Egypt to today\u2019s web pages. The Dictionary, which gathers this material for the first time, provides not only a better understa<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">nding of the medieval and Renaissance oneiric imaginary, but will also allow a practical introduction to the study of literary and artistic dream symbolism. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>New Associates<\/h3>\n<p>With thanks for their contributions and support, we welcomed new <strong>Honorary Invited Associates<\/strong> in our Anniversary Year of 2019:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Diane Ducharme<\/strong><br \/>\nArchivist, Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Yale University <a href=\"http:\/\/conference.rbms.info\/2017\/speaker\/diane-ducharme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diane Ducharme<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bernard Meisner<\/strong><br \/>\nNew York, New York <a href=\"https:\/\/bernardmaisner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bernard Maisner<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bernardmaisner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bernardmaisner<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prof. \u00c9ric Palazzo<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Poitiers (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordbibliographies.com\/ViewContributor\/document\/obo-9780199920105\/obo-9780199920105-0137.xml?id=con9308\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eric Palazzo<\/a>) and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hs.ias.edu\/Palazzo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eric Palazzo<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prof. Ronald D Patus<\/strong><br \/>\nSpecial Colections, Vassar College (<a href=\"http:\/\/vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu\/interviews-reflections\/vassar-college-special-collections.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ronald D. Patkus on Vassar College Special Collections<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vassar.edu\/faculty\/patkus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ronald D. Patkus<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/library-cafe.blogspot.com\/2018\/04\/ronald-d-patkus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ronald D. Patkus<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Vajra Regan<\/strong><br \/>\nCentre for Mediaeval Studies, University of Toronto (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Vajra_Regan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vajra Regan<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ilona Tuomi<\/strong><br \/>\nDepartment of Early and Medieval Irish, University College Cork (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ilona.tuomi.5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Ilona Tuomi<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With thanks for their contributions and support, we applaud the <strong>Honorary Invited Associate<\/strong>s of 2016\u20132018, here in alphabetical order.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dr. Benjamin L. Albritton<\/strong><br \/>\nStanford University Libraries, Stanford University (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/benjamin-albritton-b2661612\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benjamin Albritton<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prof. Alison Altstatt<br \/>\n<\/strong>Music Department, University of Northern Iowa (<a href=\"https:\/\/northerniowa.academia.edu\/AlisonAltstatt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alison Altstatt<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Daniel Attrell<br \/>\n<\/strong>Classical Studies, University of Waterloo (<a href=\"https:\/\/themodernhermeticist.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dan Attrell<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prof. Charles E. Barber<br \/>\n<\/strong>Department of Art &amp; Archaeology, Princeton University (<a href=\"https:\/\/artandarchaeology.princeton.edu\/people\/charlie-barber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Barber, Professor<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prof. Gregory T. Clark<br \/>\n<\/strong>Department of Art and Art History, Sewanee: The University of the South (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200219182451\/http:\/\/www.sewanee.edu:80\/academics\/art\/facstaff\/clark.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greg Clark<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dr. Raymond Clemens<\/strong><br \/>\nBeinecke Manuscript and Rare Book Library, Yale University (<a href=\"http:\/\/beinecke.library.yale.edu\/about\/staff\/raymond-clemens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Raymond Clemens<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/raymond-clemens-0097a282\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Raymond Clemens<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dr. Michael Allman Conrad<\/strong><br \/>\nKunsthistorisches Institut, University of Zurich (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/michaelallman.conrad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Michae Allman Conrad<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prof. Emerita Helen Damico<br \/>\n<\/strong>Department of English, University of New Mexico (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Helen_Damico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Helen Damico<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mr. Augustine Dickinson<br \/>\n<\/strong>Centre for Mediaeval Studies, University of Toronto (<a href=\"https:\/\/utoronto.academia.edu\/smaugustine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Augustine Dickinson<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dr. Martha E. Easton<br \/>\n<\/strong>Princeton (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.edu\/profiles\/marthaeaston.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Martha Easton, Ph.D.<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prof. Emeritus Paul Corby Finney<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Missouri (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/paul-corby-finney-110750113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Corby Finney<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prof. Emerita Paula Gerson<br \/>\n<\/strong>Florida State University<strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/arthistory.fsu.edu\/people\/faculty-staff\/emeritus-faculty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Paula Gerson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/arthistory.fsu.edu\/paula-gerson-honored-at-columbia-symposium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Paula Gerson Honored at Columbia Symposium<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ms. Marilyn Hansen<br \/>\nDepartment of Art &amp; Archaeology, Princeton University (<a href=\"https:\/\/artandarchaeology.princeton.edu\/people\/staff\/marilyn-hansen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Marilyn Hansen<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dr. Justin Hastings<br \/>\n<\/strong>Department of English, Loyola University Chicago (<a href=\"http:\/\/mags-net.org\/excellence-in-teaching-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MAGS Excellence in Teaching Award<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dr. Eric Johnston<br \/>\n<\/strong>Rare Books and Manuscript Library, The Ohio State University (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180429070018\/https:\/\/library.osu.edu\/find\/collections\/rarebooks\/contact\/ejohnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eric Johnston<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dr. Thomas E. Hill<br \/>\n<\/strong>Art Librarian, Vassar College (<a href=\"http:\/\/lookslikelibraryscience.com\/post\/17740507944\/thomas-hill-art-library-vassar-college\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Thomas Hill<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prof. Robert Kaster<br \/>\n<\/strong>Department of Classics, Princeton University (<a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.princeton.edu\/kaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bob Kaster<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dr. Debra Cashion<\/strong><br \/>\nDigital Humanities Librarian, Saint Louis University (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/debra-taylor-cashion-phd-mlis-b5791a6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Debra Cashion<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/slu.academia.edu\/DebraCashion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Debra Cashion<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sally V. Keil<\/strong><br \/>\nStaatsburg, New York (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sally-V-Keil\/e\/B001KC5XNG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sally V. Keil<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/library-cafe.blogspot.com\/2016\/08\/sally-v-keil.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sally V. Keil<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/library-cafe.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Sally Van Wagenen Keil<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dr. Andrew Kraebel, Department of English, Trinity University <\/strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/trinity.academia.edu\/AndrewKraebel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew Kraebel<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hermitofhampole\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@hermitofhampole<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prof. Michael Kuczynski<\/strong><br \/>\nDepartment of English, Tulane University, New Orleans (<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.tulane.edu\/liberal-arts\/english\/faculty\/michael-kuczynski.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Michael Kyczynski<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200727164303\/https:\/\/library.tulane.edu\/libraries\/rare-books\/Kuczynski\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Testimonials<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dr. Kevin Maringer<\/strong><br \/>\nDepartment of Microbial and Cellular Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford (<a href=\"http:\/\/researchgate.net\/profile\/Kevin_Maringer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin Maringer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/surrey.ac.uk\/microbial\/People\/kevin_maringer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Dr Kevin Maringer<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prof. Outi Merisalo<\/strong><br \/>\nDepartment of Languages, University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4, Finland (<a href=\"http:\/\/staff.jyu.fi\/Members\/merisalo\/lamemoli?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Late Medieval and Early Modern Libraries as Knowledge Repositories, Guardians of Tradition and Catalysts of Change (LaMeMoLi)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/jyu.academia.edu\/OutiMerisalo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Outi Merisalo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Outi_Merisalo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Outi Merisalo<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/outi-merisalo-558640b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Outi Merisalo<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mr. Jesse Meyer<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pergamena.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pergamena<\/a>, Montgomery, New York<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_7115\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0741-Jesse-Meyer-Demonstrates-cropped-for-Feature-Image.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7115\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7115 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0741-Jesse-Meyer-Demonstrates-cropped-for-Feature-Image-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"Jesse Meyers demonstrates a squirrel skin at the Research Group's Session on Medieval Writing Materials at the 2016 International Congress on Medieval Studies\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0741-Jesse-Meyer-Demonstrates-cropped-for-Feature-Image-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0741-Jesse-Meyer-Demonstrates-cropped-for-Feature-Image-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0741-Jesse-Meyer-Demonstrates-cropped-for-Feature-Image-1024x708.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0741-Jesse-Meyer-Demonstrates-cropped-for-Feature-Image.jpg 1031w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesse at our 2016 Congress Session<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prof. Alastair Minnis<\/strong><br \/>\nDepartment of English, Yale University (<a href=\"http:\/\/english.yale.edu\/people\/tenured-and-tenure-track-faculty-professors\/alastair-minnis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alastair Minnis<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prof. Emerita Lea T. Olsan<\/strong><br \/>\nDepartment of English and Foreign Languages, University of Louisiana at Monroe (<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.ulm.edu\/content.php?catoid=13&amp;navoid=1554\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faculty and Administrative Emeriti<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/16260711.Lea_T_Olsan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lea T. Olsan<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dr. Pamela Patton<br \/>\n<\/strong>Index of Medieval Art (formerly Index of Christian Art), Princeton University (<a href=\"https:\/\/artandarchaeology.princeton.edu\/people\/staff\/pamela-patton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Pamela Patton<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prof. Eric Ram\u00edrez-Weaver<br \/>\n<\/strong>Department of Art, University of Virginia (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginia.edu\/art\/ramirez-weaver\/bio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Eric Ramirez-Weaver)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dr. Lynn Ransom<\/strong><br \/>\nSchoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania (<a href=\"https:\/\/schoenberginstitute.org\/sims-staff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SIMS Staff<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/upenn.academia.edu\/LynnRansom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lynn Ransom<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prof. Michael Ryan<br \/>\n<\/strong>Department of History, University of New Mexico (<a href=\"http:\/\/history.unm.edu\/people\/faculty\/profile\/michael-ryan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Ryan<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dr. William M. Voelkle<\/strong><br \/>\nMedieval &amp; Renaissance Manuscripts, The Morgan Library &amp; Museum, New York (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorgan.org\/blogs\/william-voelkle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">William Voelkle&#8217;s Blog<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prof. Louis A. Waldman<\/strong>, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin<br \/>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/utexas.academia.edu\/LouisAlexanderWaldman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Louis A. Waldman<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louis_A._Waldman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Louis A. Waldman<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prof. Emeritus Thomas Waldman<\/strong><br \/>\nDepartment of History, University of Pennsylvania (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160312063537\/http:\/\/www.history.upenn.edu:80\/people\/visiting\/thomas-waldman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Waldman<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our Associates are named in full <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/profile\/officers-associates-and-volunteers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 So glad for their help!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9778\" style=\"width: 181px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_3798-Stavros-at-AZO-2017-cropped.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9778\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9778 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_3798-Stavros-at-AZO-2017-cropped-171x300.jpg\" alt=\"Our new Emissary Stavros Stavroulias at the 2017 International Congress on Medieval Studies. Photography by Mildred Budny.\" width=\"171\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_3798-Stavros-at-AZO-2017-cropped-171x300.jpg 171w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_3798-Stavros-at-AZO-2017-cropped-85x150.jpg 85w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_3798-Stavros-at-AZO-2017-cropped-582x1024.jpg 582w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our new Emissary Stavros Stavroulias at the 2017 International Congress on Medieval Studies. Photography by Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Our New Emissary<\/h3>\n<p>As part of our Activities at the 2017 International Congress on Medieval Studies, reported partly in the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2017-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017 Congress Report<\/a> and our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/business-meetings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Business Meetings<\/a>, we created a new position and appointed our first Emissary.\u00a0 Congratulations to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stavros.stavroulias\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Stavros Stavroulias<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>(P.S. Our Honorary Trustee, James Marrow, suggests that we might also appoint a Nuncio. Even more than one. Volunteers?)<\/p>\n<h3>Our Volunteer CopyCat Editor<\/h3>\n<p>An interview with our specially appointed CopyCat Editor describes her traits, habits, and contributions to our activities: <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/center-fold\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center Fold<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By popular request, following this event, we formed the <strong>Mistie Fan Club<\/strong>, with her very own <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/misties-fan-page\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fan Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Reports and Booklets<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>December <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/10397\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017 Annual Appeal Letter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/9737\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 2017 Business Meeting Agenda<\/a> addressing Activities, Prospects, Needs, Aims<\/li>\n<li>Updated Booklet (2017) for <a href=\"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/profile\/bembino\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bembino<\/a> Version 1.4, accompanying the Launch of Version 1.4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>December <a href=\"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/download\/9465\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2016 Annual Appeal Letter<br \/>\n<\/a>Celebrating our Progress and our Goals, with a call for help with <a href=\"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/contributions-and-donations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contributions and Donations<\/a> in funds, in pro bono expertise, and in kind<\/li>\n<li>December <a href=\"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/download\/6121\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015 Annual Appeal Letter<br \/>\n<\/a>Celebrating our Progress and our Goals, with a call for help with Contributions both in funds and in kind<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Our second Annual Report for the <a href=\"http:\/\/c.ymcdn.com\/sites\/www.medievalacademy.org\/resource\/resmgr\/pdfs\/June_2016_CARA_news.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">2016 June CARA Newsletter<\/a> (page 13), reissued on our website as the<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/7489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Annual Report for the 2016 CARA Newsletter<\/a> with live links and with illustrations: <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2016-report-for-cara\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2016 Report for CARA<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Our first <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/rgme-report-for-the-june-2015-cara-newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Annual Report for the 2015 CARA Newsletter<\/a>, in our first year as an <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170923103524\/http:\/\/www.medievalacademy.org\/?page=CARA_Affiliates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Affiliate<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170909164432\/http:\/\/www.medievalacademy.org\/?page=CARA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CARA, the Committee on Centers and Regional Associations<\/a> of the Medieval Academy of America; the Report is reissued on our website with live links<br \/>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/7489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Activities for 2015 and Plans for 2016<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The revised version of our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/4652\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Style Manifesto<\/a> (2015), updated and laid out with our copyright font <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/bembino\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bembino<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Program Booklet for our 2015 Congress Session on <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/4680\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Predicting the Past<\/a>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_7271\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-Symposium-Program-Booklet-Cover-Page.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7271\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7271 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-Symposium-Program-Booklet-Cover-Page-232x300.png\" alt=\"2016 Symposium Program Booklet Cover Page with border\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-Symposium-Program-Booklet-Cover-Page-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-Symposium-Program-Booklet-Cover-Page-116x150.png 116w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016-Symposium-Program-Booklet-Cover-Page.png 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2016 Symposium Program Booklet Cover Page with border.<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/7112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 2016 Business Meeting Agenda<\/a> addressing Activities, Prospects, Needs, Aims<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/5641\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 2015 Business Meeting Agenda<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Program Booklet for our March 2016 Symposium on <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/6991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Words &amp; Deeds&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Program Booklet for our May 2016 Congress Sessions on <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/7191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Crusading and the Byzantine Legacy in the Northwestern Black Sea Region&#8217; and &#8216;The Medieval Balkans as Mirror&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>News of our new blog on <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/manuscript-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manuscript Studies<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/lib.slu.edu\/files\/special-collections\/publications\/vfl-newsletter-no-16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">September 2015 &#8216;Manuscripts On My Mind&#8217; Newsletter<\/a>, where the first 5 posts of the blog debut as a group<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Continuing posts for this blog, now with its own <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/manuscript-studies-contents-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contents List<br \/>\n<\/a>List of the Posts grouped by Subjects, Thumbnails Included<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_5613\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ArmenianCover_200dpi-with-border.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5613\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5613 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ArmenianCover_200dpi-with-border-232x300.png\" alt=\"Cover for the Report on 'Two Detached Manuscript Leaves containing New Testament Texts in Old Armenian' by Leslie J. French for the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, with a detail of Leaf I verso, column a lines 10-12, with the opening of Acts 23:12\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ArmenianCover_200dpi-with-border-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ArmenianCover_200dpi-with-border-116x150.png 116w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ArmenianCover_200dpi-with-border.png 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover for the Report on &#8216;Two Detached Manuscript Leaves containing New Testament Texts in Old Armenian&#8217; by Leslie J. French for the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, with a detail of Leaf I verso, column a lines 10-12, with the opening of Acts 23:12.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/5625\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Report on New Testament Leaves in Old Armenian<\/a><br \/>\nA post in our blog on <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/new-testament-leaves-in-old-armenian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Testament Leaves in Old Armenian<\/a> introduces the downloadable Booklet, which identifies the text on a pair of detached leaves and sets them in the context of some other leaves which survive from the same dismembered manuscript<br \/>\nThis report displays Armenian characters designed for the next version of our copyright multilingual font <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/bembino\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bembino<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For their help in preparing these reports, we thank<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>our Associate Lisa Fagin Davis (Editor of the CARA Newsletter)<\/li>\n<li>our Associate Valerio Cappozzo (Organizer of his 2015 Session and Co-Editor of its Booklet)<\/li>\n<li>Susan L&#8217;Engle (Editor of the &#8216;Manuscripts On My Mind&#8217; Newsletter)<\/li>\n<li>our Associate Ioana Georgescu (Co-Editor of the 2015 Business Meeting Agenda)<\/li>\n<li>our Associates Barbara Shailor, Lisa Fagin Davis, and Genevra Kornbluth, as well as Raymond Clemens, Brigitte Bedoz-Rezak, and Dot Porter (Donors of Images for the Posters and Program Booklet for the &#8216;Words &amp; Deeds&#8217; Symposium)<\/li>\n<li>Susan L&#8217;Engle (Editor of the &#8216;Manuscripts On My Mind&#8217; Newsletter)<\/li>\n<li>our Associate Florin Curta (Co-Organizer of the 2016 Sessions and Adviser for their Booklet)<\/li>\n<li>our Editor-in-Chief<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For their authorship, we thank<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>our Associate Leslie J. French (&#8216;New Testament Leaves in Old Armenian&#8217;)<\/li>\n<li>our principal Blogger, our Director Mildred Budny (&#8216;Manuscript Studies&#8217;)<\/li>\n<li>the Authors of Abstracts of Papers for our Booklets (&#8216;Predicting the Past&#8217;, &#8216;Words &amp; Deeds&#8217;, &#8216;Crusading and the Byzantine Legacy&#8217;, and &#8216;The Medieval Balkans as Mirror&#8217;)<\/li>\n<li>the Princeton Trustees of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence (Appeal Letters).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For their responses to our Annual Appeals in succession, we thank all our Donors, Sponsors &amp; Contributors.<\/p>\n<h2>Events &amp; Congress Activities<\/h2>\n<h3>I. <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/profile\/seminars-workshops-colloquia-and-symposia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seminars, Symposia, Colloquia &amp; Other Events<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/events-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Events<\/a> sponsored and co-sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence include seminars, masterclasses, exhibitions, workshops, colloquia, and symposia, which take place at various centers. These events stand apart from the Congress sessions and other activities (exhibitions, meetings, and receptions) which the Research Group sponsors and co-sponsors at the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/wmich.edu\/medieval\/congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Congress on Medieval Studies<\/a>, as reported in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/category\/international-congress-on-medieval-studies-at-western-michigan-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Congress Archive<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Our Events focus upon a wide variety of subjects and approaches, promoting discourse between fields of study and between experts, students, and the wider world.<\/p>\n<h3>2016 Symposium on Words &amp; Deeds<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_6088\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2014-Recollections-of-the-Past-Symposium-Poster.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6088\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6088 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2014-Recollections-of-the-Past-Symposium-Poster-232x300.png\" alt=\"Poster for 2014 Symposium on 'Recollections of the Past', laid out in the RGME font Bembino and illustrated with 2 images from a dismembered Book of Hours. Images courtesy of Adelaide Bennett\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2014-Recollections-of-the-Past-Symposium-Poster-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2014-Recollections-of-the-Past-Symposium-Poster-116x150.png 116w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2014-Recollections-of-the-Past-Symposium-Poster.png 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poster for 2014 Symposium on &#8216;Recollections of the Past&#8217;, laid out in the RGME font Bembino and illustrated with 2 images from a dismembered Book of Hours. Images courtesy of Adelaide Bennett.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our Symposium at Princeton University took place in March 2016.\u00a0 It continues the &#8216;New series&#8217; of Symposia, which followed the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/symposia-on-the-transmission-of-the-bible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Symposia on &#8216;The Transmission of the Bible&#8217;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/events-list\/\/2009-threshold-symposium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Gathering At the Threshold<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>(November 2009)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2013-symposium-on-identity-and-authenticity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Identity &amp; Authenticity<\/strong><\/a> (March 2013)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2014-recollections-symposium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Recollections of the Past<\/strong><\/a> (May 2014)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2016-symposium-on-words-and-deeds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Words &amp; Deeds<\/strong><\/a> (March 2016)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Updates and Reports appear in our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/category\/events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Events Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Sponsored Panels at the M-MLA Conference in November 2016 and 2017<\/h3>\n<p>For the first time, in 2016 the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence sponsored two Panels at the Conference of the Midwest Modern Language Association, held in November at St. Louis, Missouri.\u00a0 They were organized by Justin Hastings (Department of English, Loyola University College, Chicago).\u00a0 In keeping with the conference&#8217;s theme of &#8220;Border States&#8221;, it focused upon <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/marginalia-in-manuscripts-and-incunables-in-north-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marginalia in Manuscripts and Printed Books in North America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The success of these panels led to a continuation of the new tradition, with another sponsored panel at the 2017 Conference, held in November at Cleveland. Organized by Justin Hastings, this panel focused upon <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2017-m-mla-panel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Artists, Activists, and Manuscript Evidence&#8221;<\/a>.\u00a0 Its subjects, responses, and venue have an illustrated <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2017-m-mla-panel-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017 M-MLA Panel Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>News &amp; Views<\/h3>\n<p>You may <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/6JMcD\" class=\"broken_link\">Subscribe<\/a> to the RGMEnewsletter and visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Research-Group-on-Manuscript-Evidence-259443617456668\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">FaceBook Page<\/a> for news and comments.<\/p>\n<h3>II. <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/category\/international-congress-on-medieval-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Activities at the Annual Congress<\/a> = the <a href=\"http:\/\/wmich.edu\/medieval\/congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Congress on Medieval Studies<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_4535\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/RGME-Soc-Mag-Reception-2015-Full-Page-with-Fri-date-corrected-done1.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4535\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4535 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/RGME-Soc-Mag-Reception-2015-Full-Page-with-Fri-date-corrected-done1-232x300.png\" alt=\"Invitation for Reception at the 2015 International Congress on Medieval Studies co-sponsored by the Societas Magica, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, and the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/RGME-Soc-Mag-Reception-2015-Full-Page-with-Fri-date-corrected-done1-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/RGME-Soc-Mag-Reception-2015-Full-Page-with-Fri-date-corrected-done1-116x150.png 116w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/RGME-Soc-Mag-Reception-2015-Full-Page-with-Fri-date-corrected-done1.png 617w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Invitation for Reception at the 2015 International Congress on Medieval Studies co-sponsored by the Societas Magica, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, and the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/congress-activities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congress Activities<\/a> include Sessions, both <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/profile\/sponsored-sessions-at-the-international-congress-on-medieval-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sponsored<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/profile\/co-sponsored-sessions-at-the-international-congress-on-medieval-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Co-Sponsored<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On occasion at the Congresses, we also hold<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/profile\/photographic-exhibitions-&amp;-masterclasses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Photographic Exhibitions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/5641\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Business Meetings<\/a> and<\/li>\n<li>Parties or Receptions.<br \/>\nIllustrated Reports describe the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2014-anniversary-reception\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2014 Anniversary Reception<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2015-reception\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015 Reception<\/a>, with an illustrated record of the Reception also at the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2016-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2016 Congress<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full series of activities at the Congress, their preparations, and updates, appears in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/category\/international-congress-on-medieval-studies-at-western-michigan-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congress Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>The Annual Congresses<\/h4>\n<p>As each next Congress Program comes into view, we announce the Preparations for our Sessions and Activities, including the Call for Papers (once the proposed Sessions have been accepted by the Congress Committee), and then we announce the Program (once the Call for Papers has completed its span and our selection has concluded).\u00a0 Updates where appropriate, for example as Room Assignments might change.\u00a0 Also, as is our custom, we aim to publish the Abstracts for the Papers, once the Program has settled into place, and as the Authors allow.\u00a0 The Indexes of Authors, both by Year and by Surname, provide a useful \u2014 and, dare we say? \u2014 impressive cast of contributors.<\/p>\n<h3>Publications Online &amp; in Print<\/h3>\n<p>We offer a full list (1990\u2013) of our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/profile\/publications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Publications<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Many are available freely for download.<\/p>\n<p>The current version of our high-quality copyright digital multilingual font <a href=\"http:\/\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/bembino\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bembino<\/a> is available freely for download and use.\u00a0 You see it in practice here on our website.\u00a0 The newest version is <strong>1.4<\/strong> (April 2017).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our E-Newsletter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first issue of the RGME-Newsletter <strong>ShelfMarks<\/strong> (Autumn, 2014) contains a review of the series volume on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psupress.org\/books\/titles\/978-0-9837537-4-2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Patronage: Power &amp; Agency in Medieval Art<\/strong><\/a> (2012) and the first two volumes ([formerly] available freely) of the series of <strong>Index of Christian Art Online Publications<\/strong>, recording the conference proceedings devoted to <strong>The Digital World of Art History<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150905080457\/http:\/\/ica.princeton.edu\/digitalbooks\/digitalday2.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>I (2012)<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150814164224\/http:\/\/ica.princeton.edu\/digitalbooks\/digitalworldofarthistory2013.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>II (2013)<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The review appears <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/bouquet-list-gathering-books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ShelfMarks-masthead-corrected-26-Oct-2014.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2718 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ShelfMarks-masthead-corrected-26-Oct-2014-300x86.png\" alt=\"Masthead for ShelfMarks, the newsletter of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, laid out in RGME Bembino\" width=\"300\" height=\"86\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ShelfMarks-masthead-corrected-26-Oct-2014-300x86.png 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ShelfMarks-masthead-corrected-26-Oct-2014-150x43.png 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ShelfMarks-masthead-corrected-26-Oct-2014-1024x295.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first issue of the Newsletter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manuscriptevidence.org\/shelflife\/shelfmarks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ShelfMarks<\/strong><\/a>, co-edited by Mildred Budny and our Associate Jim Tigwell, appears in full:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ShelfMarks-Volume-1-Number-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ShelfMarks, Volume 1, Number 1 (PDF)<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 You might <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/6JMcD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\"><strong>Subscribe here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers From Our Congress Sessions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On our website, we have begun to publish some Papers from our Congress Sessions.<\/p>\n<p>The first is David W. Sorenson&#8217;s Paper on <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/semi-official-counterfeiting-within-the-french-mints-1380-1422\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Semi-Official Counterfeiting within the French Mints 1380\u20131422 and What It Tells Us&#8217;<\/a>, presented at the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2015-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-events-accomplished\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015 Congress<\/a>. The paper is available freely for <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/7020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The second is Mildred Budny&#8217;s Paper on <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/no-snap-decisions-challenges-of-manuscript-photography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;No Snap Decisions: Challenges of Manuscript Photography&#8217;<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/1995-international-congress-on-medieval-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1995 Congress<\/a>. In the form of a webpage, this publication combines the Abstract already published in 1994 with the Paper itself, plus added links, notes, illustrations, observations, and updates.<\/p>\n<p>Some recent Publications are listed above, among the <strong>Reports<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h4>Promotional Offer for <em>The Illustrated Catalogue<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MB-Catalogue-Front-Covers-I-II-for-Web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6497 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MB-Catalogue-Front-Covers-I-II-for-Web.jpg\" alt=\"Front Covers for Volumes I &amp; II of 'Insular, Anglo-Saxon, and Anglo-Norman Manuscript Art at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge: An Illustrated Catalogue' by Mildred Budny, with the title of the publication and the gold-stamped logo of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, co-publisher of the volumes\" width=\"573\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MB-Catalogue-Front-Covers-I-II-for-Web.jpg 573w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MB-Catalogue-Front-Covers-I-II-for-Web-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MB-Catalogue-Front-Covers-I-II-for-Web-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MB-Catalogue-Cover-II-logo-cropped.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6529 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MB-Catalogue-Cover-II-logo-cropped-132x150.png\" alt=\"MB Catalogue Cover II logo cropped\" width=\"132\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MB-Catalogue-Cover-II-logo-cropped-132x150.png 132w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MB-Catalogue-Cover-II-logo-cropped.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 132px) 100vw, 132px\" \/><\/a><\/strong>In a new development (February 2016), we present a<br \/>\n<em>Special Promotional Offer<\/em><br \/>\nfor our largest publication and co-publication so far.<br \/>\nThis is the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180901230721\/https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/profile\/publications\/insular-anglo-saxon-and-early-anglo-norman-manuscript-art-at-corpus-christi-college-cambridge-1997\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Illustrated Catalogue<\/a> of<br \/>\n<strong>Insular, Anglo-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman Manuscript Art<br \/>\nat Corpus Christi College, Cambridge<\/strong> (2 volumes).<\/p>\n<p>See the details of the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/profile\/orders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Promotional Offer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>The &#8216;Illustrated Handlist&#8217;<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_5207\" style=\"width: 286px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCN1914-Italian-Bible-Luke-Gospel-Opening-branded.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5207\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5207 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCN1914-Italian-Bible-Luke-Gospel-Opening-branded-276x300.png\" alt=\"Detail of recto of leaf from an Italian Giant Bible. Photography by Mildred Budny\" width=\"276\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCN1914-Italian-Bible-Luke-Gospel-Opening-branded-276x300.png 276w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCN1914-Italian-Bible-Luke-Gospel-Opening-branded-138x150.png 138w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCN1914-Italian-Bible-Luke-Gospel-Opening-branded-942x1024.png 942w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCN1914-Italian-Bible-Luke-Gospel-Opening-branded.png 971w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Budny Handlist 1, Detail<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Several years in the making, our <a href=\"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/the-illustrated-handlist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Illustrated Handlist<\/a> describes and illustrates the items from a cumulative assembly of medieval and early modern manuscripts, documents, and printed materials which have undergone conservation, photography, and detailed research by Mildred Budny.<\/p>\n<p>The unfolding publication of the Handlist, in stages, includes some detailed Reports of individual Items in our Blog on <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/manuscript-studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manuscript Studies<\/a>, as indicated in its <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/manuscript-studies-contents-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contents List<\/a>; in some Papers for our Congress Sessions, as indicated among their Abstracts; and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The overview of the Handlist, in the form of a unified Contents List grouped mainly by category of writing media, language(s), and textual genres, identifies the individual materials, their contents, their dates or probable dates and places of origin, their sources of acquisition, and other elements of interest.\u00a0 The Handlist subdivides into parts and sub-sections according to the<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>writing medium or media (parchment, paper, composite, etc)<\/li>\n<li>type of text (manuscript or fragment thereof, document, printed material)<\/li>\n<li>language (Latin and\/or vernacular, with 1 addition to a Latin early printed book in Greek).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Within each part or section, the sequence is more-or-less chronological, insofar as dating criteria are available.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5281\" style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Bk-of-Hours-verso-initial-M.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5281\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5281 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Bk-of-Hours-verso-initial-M.png\" alt=\"Detail of verso of a leaf from the Office of the Dead in a Book of Hours, with the polychrome Initial M (of 'Manus') with an inset pair of trefoil leaves or fruits against gold leaf background. Photograph \u00a9 Mildred Budny\" width=\"176\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Bk-of-Hours-verso-initial-M.png 176w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Bk-of-Hours-verso-initial-M-150x134.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M for &#8216;Manus&#8217;<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Blog on &#8216;Manuscript Studies&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/manuscript-studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manuscript Studies<\/a> blog (2015\u2013) continues to grow, now with its own <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/manuscript-studies-contents-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contents List<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The posts for each year through 2022 continue to appear.\u00a0 See the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/manuscript-studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/manuscript-studies-contents-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contents List<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Examples of the range might be glimpsed in the posts for 2016:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/three-leaves-from-a-latin-religious-pocket-handbook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Three Leaves from a Latin Religious Pocket Handbook<\/a> with portions of Vulgate Psalm 77, a text on Christian Liturgical Observance, and Eadmer&#8217;s <em>Treatise on the Conception of the Blessed Mary<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-leaf-from-the-office-of-the-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Leaf from the Office of the Dead<\/a>, with a Recollection of the late Jennifer O&#8217;Reilly (1943\u20132016)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/part-leaf-from-a-large-format-lectionary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part-Leaf from a Large-Format Lectionary<\/a> in Latin with Parts of I Maccabees 10 and Homily 38 on the Gospels by Gregory the Great<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-part-leaf-from-the-life-of-saint-blaise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Part-Leaf from the &#8216;Life of Saint Blaise&#8217;<\/a>, from a Latin lectionary (February portion, presumably) reused\u00a0\u2014 still\u00a0\u2014 as the cover for an 18th-century paper notebook with French receipts for the area of Plauzat in the Auvergne<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/written-in-the-stars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Written in the Stars<\/a>, with a pair of single, continuous, leaves in Latin from the end of a Roman Breviary rounding up with lections from Patristic sermons emphatically denying the powers of astrology, inspired by the Epiphany and the role of the Star(s) in divine destiny<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/spoonful-of-sugar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spoonful of Sugar<\/a>, with a bifolium from a Latin treatise on medical substances, retrieved from its reuse as a binding cover somewhere<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_7097\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Center-Fold-Photography-by-Mildred-Budny.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7097\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7097 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Center-Fold-Photography-by-Mildred-Budny-300x142.jpg\" alt=\"The CopyCat Editor Lying Down On The Job. Photography \u00a9 Mildred Budny, reproduced by permission.\" width=\"300\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Center-Fold-Photography-by-Mildred-Budny-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Center-Fold-Photography-by-Mildred-Budny-150x71.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Center-Fold-Photography-by-Mildred-Budny-1024x484.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The CopyCat Editor Lying Down On The Job. Photography \u00a9 Mildred Budny, reproduced by permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/center-fold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center Fold<\/a>, with a light-hearted &#8220;interview&#8221; with our new CopyCat Editor, who took a paws-on approach to the process of editing the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/6991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Program Booklet<\/a> for our 2016 Symposium<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-reused-medieval-psalter-bifolium-and-its-french-notebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cover-Up<\/a>, with a bifolium from a late 13th or early 14th-century Latin Psalter or Breviary still in position, reused on the cover of an 18th-century paper notebook with Receipts in French from Dijon and its region, extending mostly from the French Revolution to the Napoleonic Wars<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/lillian-vail-dymond\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lillian Vail Dymond<\/a>, with a personal view of the impact of adoption and name changes upon the bureaucratic record of an individual across time and place, with observations for the study of medieval records as well as modern ones, in a post by our new Associate and Guest-Blogger, Linde M. Brocato<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_5564\" style=\"width: 123px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/P9306939-Justinian-wrapper-initial-I-branded.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5564\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5564 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/P9306939-Justinian-wrapper-initial-I-branded-113x150.png\" alt=\"P9306939 Justinian wrapper initial I branded\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/P9306939-Justinian-wrapper-initial-I-branded-113x150.png 113w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/P9306939-Justinian-wrapper-initial-I-branded-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/P9306939-Justinian-wrapper-initial-I-branded-768x1024.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 113px) 100vw, 113px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private collection, Justinian wrapper, Initial I. Reproduced by permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/more-leaves-from-otto-ege-manuscript-51\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Leaves from &#8216;Otto Ege Manuscript 51&#8217;<\/a>, with the identification of 2 detached leaves from a Latin manuscript of Aristotle&#8217;s <em>Nichomachean Ethics made at Erfurt by 1365 and dismembered by 1923 at the hands of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Otto_Ege\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Otto Ege<\/a>, like the subjects of some of our other <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/manuscript-studies-contents-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blogposts2016 Symposium<\/a> and its <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/6991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Booklet<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/its-a-wrap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It&#8217;s a Wrap<\/a>, with the report of a leaf from the Latin <em>Novels<\/em> of Justinian&#8217;s Code, which, made most probably at Bologna or Padua circa 1260-1280 and provided with some glosses as commentary, found reuse as a wrapper, pasted and folded, with added tie, for other stuff of one sort or another<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-reused-part-leaf-from-bedes-homilies-on-the-gospels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Part-Leaf from Bede&#8217;s <em>Homilies on the Gospels<\/em><\/a>, with the identification of a fragment from a 14th-century copy, perhaps made in France, of Bede&#8217;s <em>Homily<\/em> II, 6, on Mark 7:31\u201337 for Holy Saturday, marked for lection, and reused as part of a cover for a land ledger, but now retrieved as a scrap on its own<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Watch for more to come.\u00a0 Follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/manuscript-studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog<\/a> and see its <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/manuscript-studies-contents-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contents List<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>From the Archives<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heavy-LOGO1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-784 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heavy-LOGO1-150x138.jpg\" alt=\"Logo of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence (colour version)\" width=\"150\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heavy-LOGO1-150x138.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heavy-LOGO1-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heavy-LOGO1.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>As the Research Group continues to report its history, sampling the records of its activities for presentation on this website, we notice some highlights among recent posts and pages.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/our-logo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Our Logo<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/image-processing-and-manuscript-studies-january-1994\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Image-Processing and Manuscript Studies<\/a> (15 January 1994) in the series of Research Group Seminars on the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/seminars-on-the-evidence-of-manuscripts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Evidence of Manuscripts<\/a> (1990\u20121995<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_2615\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Gregory-Leaf-open-book.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2615\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2615 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Gregory-Leaf-open-book-300x284.png\" alt=\"Detail of an opened book in a late-medieval manuscript illustration\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Gregory-Leaf-open-book-300x284.png 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Gregory-Leaf-open-book-150x142.png 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Gregory-Leaf-open-book-1024x970.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photography \u00a9 Mildred Budny<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Indexes of Authors of <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts-of-papers-for-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abstracts of Papers for Events<\/a>, including both<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>those <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts-of-papers-for-seminars-on-the-evidence-of-manuscripts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seminars<\/a> and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts-of-papers-for-symposia-workshops-and-colloquia-listed-by-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Symposia, Workshops &amp; Colloquia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These Indexes perform similar services for the Events as do those (already in place by 2015) for the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congress Papers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<h3>Image Credits<\/h3>\n<p>P.S.\u00a0 For information about the image of an opened book shown here at the right,<br \/>\nview our blogpost on <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/mass-saint-gregory-illustrated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Mass of Saint Gregory, Illustrated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We thank Joshua O&#8217;Driscoll of <a href=\"http:\/\/themorgan.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Morgan Museum &amp; Library<\/a> for aiding our exploration of permission to reproduce the image from MS M.1000, shown above.<\/p>\n<p>The image at the top of this post shows three lines from &#8216;Ege Manuscript 41&#8217; (subject of one of our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/news\/news-views\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blogposts<\/a>), reproduced by permission.\u00a0 Within the <em>Dialogues<\/em> of Gregory the Great, in Latin, they open Book III, Chapter 13, which begins <em>Nuper<\/em> (&#8216;Recently&#8217;), and considers things worthy of memory.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<h3>Suggestions Wanted<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/approval1_light-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6473 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/approval1_light-cropped-114x150.jpg\" alt=\"Red Version of the 'Seal of Approval' logo for the Style Manifesto of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence\" width=\"114\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/approval1_light-cropped-114x150.jpg 114w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/approval1_light-cropped-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/approval1_light-cropped.jpg 487w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 114px) 100vw, 114px\" \/><\/a>Do you have news to report?<br \/>\nAwards or promotions to celebrate?<br \/>\nProjects to talk about?<br \/>\nNew publications to mention, whether books, articles, reviews, notes, or other forms?<\/p>\n<p>Would you like to send a copy of your publications to us?\u00a0 For example, we welcome donations to our library, and we look for publications to review or discuss.<\/p>\n<p>We gladly cite the publications which emerge from the Papers for our Conference Sessions, Symposia, and other Events. Examples include the papers by Ortal-Paz Saar and by Ida Sinkevi\u010d from the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2013-symposium-on-identity-and-authenticity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2013 Symposium on &#8216;Identity &amp; Authenticity&#8217;<\/a> and by L\u00e1szl\u00f3 S\u00e1ndor Chardonnens from the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/chardonnens-2013-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2013 International Congress<\/a> on Medieval Studies. We add these citations as we come across them or as you provide them.<\/p>\n<p>Please send notices of your publications to let us know when they appear. Acknowledgments are always welcome.<\/p>\n<p>As the Research Group is a recognized nonprofit educational corporation, your <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/contributions-and-donations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contributions and Donations<\/a> may be tax-deductible.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contact Us<\/a> with your suggestions and improvements for the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News &amp; Views<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[First published on our old website on 16 May 2012, with updates here] Here we post news about the research, activities, and publications of our Officers, Trustees, Associates, Advisers, and Volunteers. 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