“Illustrations in Manuscripts as Evidence for Daily Life”<\/a>. View Toward the Entrance to the Parker Library in mid-1989. Photograph \u00a9 Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n An initial seminar, held in May 1989 at the Parker Library, prepared the way for the formation of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence and its series of Seminars officially devoted to “The Evidence of Manuscripts”<\/a>, from the December 1989 Seminar onward.<\/p>\n This inaugural seminar considered “Illustrations in Manuscripts as Evidence for Daily Life” or <\/strong>“Anglo-Saxon Life”<\/strong> (the descriptions differed).<\/p>\n Remember, this was before the discovery of the New Digital World of imaging for manuscripts and their study.\u00a0 We had to make do, if possible, with the materials which could come into view.\u00a0 And sometimes they could include, or center upon, the manuscripts themselves.\u00a0 Or some of them.<\/p>\n The manuscripts on the table for discussion included these examples in the Corpus Christi College collection:<\/p>\n We believed it useful to bring together manuscript scholars as well as others, including linguists and archaeologists, to consider the evidence which manuscript illustrations provided, whether direct or indirect, for customs, costumes, weaponry, armor, drinking vessels, and other activities during the Anglo-Saxon period, or any period, particularly when considered in the context of the transmission patterns of the given manuscripts, texts, and cycles of illustrations.<\/p>\n The participants included R.I. Page, Mildred Budny, David M. Wilson, Christine E. Fell, James A. Graham-Campbell, Leslie E. Webster, Patrick Wormald, and Richard Gem. (The records surviving a move may be incomplete, while the RSVPs which remain in our Research Group Archives testify to the first steps of a pioneering activity.)<\/p>\n It was agreed that the opportunity to examine manuscripts together, in the company of specialists in various fields, deserved further meetings.<\/p>\n And so the series commenced.<\/p>\n [Notable, in retrospect, which manuscripts were placed on the table, in company with each other.\u00a0 Not too shabby, don’t you think?<\/em>]<\/p>\n The Annual Reports to the Leverhulme Trust spell out the course of the research, its scholarly meetings (including the relevant period within this Series of Seminars), its contacts with other centers and scholars, its plans, and its array of discoveries.\u00a0 Details about those Annual Reports appear among our Publications<\/a>.<\/p>\n Join us for a closer look at this Seminar, aided by the souvenirs in the Research Group Archives, on its very own Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n Its List<\/a> tells the range.\u00a0 Now we show and tell the details, as we can process and post them, for the individual Events.<\/p>\n [About this series, a couple of reflections, as the WebEditor observes the long sight with hindsight.<\/em><\/p>\n Legendary series, some participants continue to say. Who knew, who could know, where it might lead?\u00a0 Perhaps you might like to know about the dedicated efforts which stood before your happy times with digital facsimiles, fuller collaboration, the works.\u00a0 We have done what we could.\u00a0 It is what it is.<\/em><\/p>\n Placing the record before you might allow you to thank your lucky stars that you didn’t have to go through such laborious steps.\u00a0 It would be a kindness, perhaps, not to insult us too much for having not had the benefits \u2014 that means us \u2014 of those who went before you, and for doing what seemed both necessary and possible, in a visionary way, to prepare the way for a better future for manuscript studies.\u00a0 Most people nowadays, even people we thought were friends, then, regard it as inconsequential. If we were famous, they would perhaps admire its huge efforts, and share some consolation for the huge personal cost. (The Memoirs are astounding. However, there are still some good friends.) Whether it worked or not, in whichever ways, it seems a worthy aim.\u00a0 Just sayin’.\u00a0 Been There!\u00a0 And Still Here!<\/em>]<\/p>\n 16 Decemer 1989<\/p><\/div>\n “Legal Manuscripts, Their Make-Up and Contents”<\/a> “Sixteenth-Century Interventions in Anglo-Saxon and Related Manuscripts”<\/a> “Corpus Christi College MS 139”<\/a>: “Technical Literature and its Form and Layout in Early Medieval Manuscripts”<\/a> 13 July 1991<\/p><\/div>\n 12 October 1991<\/p><\/div>\n “The Production, Make-up and Handling of Medieval Manuscripts”: A Workshop<\/a> “Sixteenth-Century Transcripts of Anglo-Saxon Texts”<\/a> “Corpus Christi College MS 383: “Anglo-Saxon Writing Materials and Practices<\/a>: 5 June 1992<\/p><\/div>\n 20 June 1992<\/p><\/div>\n “Corpus Christi College MSS 23 and 223: “Research on Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Cambridge and Oxford”<\/a> Research Group Seminar, Workshop, Lectures, and Symposium in Japan<\/a> I.\u00a0 Seminar on “The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence and its Work”<\/strong> Approaching Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, on 5 December 1992. Photograph \u00a9 Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n II. Workshop on”Aspects of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence”<\/strong> III.\u00a0 Symposium on “The Integrated Approach to Manuscript Studies:\u00a0 A New Horizon”<\/strong> “Corpus Christi College MS 44: The Corpus Canterbury Pontifical”<\/a> “Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts from Worcester”<\/a> “Corpus Christi College MS 201: “British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius A. iii: “Professionals’ Views of Manuscript Writing: “Corpus Christi College MS 41: The Corpus Old English Bede”<\/a> “Imaging Aids in the British Library”<\/a> 15 January 1994<\/p><\/div>\n “Image-Processing and Manuscript Studies<\/a> “Pigment-Analysis of Corpus Manuscripts”<\/a> “King Alfred and His Legacy”<\/a> “Marginalia in Manuscripts”<\/a> “Medieval Manuscript Fragments: 20 April 1994<\/p><\/div>\n 19 September 1994<\/p><\/div>\n “Canterbury Manuscripts”<\/a> “Color in Medieval Manuscripts”<\/a> *****<\/p>\n Starting in 1995, the Research Group jointly sponsored a series of Annual Symposia on “The Transmission of the Bible,”<\/strong> organized by Mildred Budny and held at various centers in turn.\u00a0 Starting in 2006, the Symposium Program also included brief Abstracts of the Papers.\u00a0 Starting in 2014, we publish those programs on our redesigned website: \u00a0Bible Symposia<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n 4 April 1996<\/p><\/div>\n “The Bible and the Visual Arts”<\/strong> (Barnard College, Columbia University, April 1995)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n *****<\/p>\n 3 November 2001<\/p><\/div>\n An Inaugural and Celebratory Workshop at The College of New Jersey, November 2001<\/p>\n This Workshop, inaugurating a series of workshops and celebrating both the formation of the Early Medieval Forum and the recognition for the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence of tax-exempt status as a Section 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, marked the resumption of scholarly meetings following our Annual Symposia on the Transmission of the Bible<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Co-organized by Celia Chazelle and co-sponsored by the Early Medieval Forum, the Index of Christian Art of Princeton University, and the History Department and History Club of The College of New Jersey, the Workshop was held at The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey, in November 2001.<\/p>\n Information about the interests, activities, and listserv of the\u00a0Early Medieval Forum<\/strong><\/a> appears on its website.<\/p>\n 7-9 March 2002<\/p><\/div>\n Co-organized by Leslie E. Webster and co-sponsored by The British Museum, The British Academy, the Friends of the British Museum, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the American Friends of the British Museum, the Index of Christian Art of Princeton University, the Royal Historical Society, and the Centre for Palaeography in the School of Advanced Study of the University of London, the Colloquium was held at the Clore Centre of The British Museum in London in March 2002.<\/p>\n Abstracts of the thirty-three papers presented at the Colloquium have been published in print and are also available online in a couple of ways, as described among the Research Group Publications<\/a> and for the event<\/a>. You may also download it<\/a> in the authentic form in which we designed it for the event, and distributed it there and afterwards in print.<\/p>\n 24-26 October 2003<\/p><\/div>\n The Ohio State University, October 2003<\/p>\n Co-organized by Frank T. Coulson and co-sponsored by the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies in the Department of Greek and Latin of The Ohio State University, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at The Ohio State University, and the Index of Christian Art of Princeton University, the Colloquium was held at the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies in October 2003.<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n Our series of Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Symposia<\/strong> resumed with the Anniversary Symposium in 2009.<\/p>\n Princeton University, November 2009<\/p>\n 22-23 March 2013<\/p><\/div>\n 22-23 March 2013<\/p><\/div>\n Princeton University, March 2013<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 16-17 May 2014<\/p><\/div>\n Princeton University, May 2014 Princeton University, November 2014 with sponsorship by the Department of Art & Archaeology, 2014 Colloquium Program<\/a><\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n Information here<\/a> *****<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n![\"Logo](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Mono_LOGO11.png\"){kind=logo}
<\/a>Since 1990, from its very beginnings, the Research Group has held Seminars<\/strong>, Workshops<\/strong>, Colloquia,<\/strong> and Symposia<\/strong> (organized or co-organized by Mildred Budny) variously at The Parker Library<\/strong><\/a> of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and at other centers in England, Japan, and the United States.\u00a0\u00a0In England, many of these sessions belonged to the series of Research Group Seminars<\/strong> on “The Evidence of Manuscripts”<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0At libraries, the sessions have taken place over relevant manuscripts in the collection, supplemented by photographs.\u00a0\u00a0Elsewhere the sessions have usually been accompanied by displays or exhibitions of photographs, mostly by Mildred Budny.<\/p>\n<\/a>Since 2001, the Research Group has jointly sponsored scholarly meetings, co-organized by Mildred Budny and held at various centers. Some of these events augment and expand the subjects explored in our Sessions, both Sponsored Sessions<\/strong><\/a> and Co-Sponsored Sessions<\/strong><\/a>, at the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies<\/strong> (Congress Sessions<\/strong><\/a>), which appear in our Congress Archive<\/strong><\/a>. Our ‘Events’, comprising scholarly meetings elsewhere, as well as Photographic Exhibitions, Receptions, and More (sometimes at the International Congress itself), appear in our Events Archive<\/a>.
\n<\/p>\nI.\u00a0 The “Prequel” in 1989<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nParker Library, 20 May 1989<\/p>\n<\/a>\n
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<\/a>While we review the full series of Seminars which followed this Prequel, it may be worth observing how many of the manuscripts selected for collective consideration found a detailed report in the principal publication which was allowed to emerge from the long-term collaborative Research Project at the Parker Library, dedicated to integrating scholarly research with conservation work.\u00a0 This specifically integrated research began with the arrival of the new Senior Research Associate at the Parker Library, in an outside-funded position, for 2 years (1987\u20139), and then grew into a 5-year Research Project funded by the Leverhulme Trust, with the addition of a Research Assistant and provisions for photographic work by the same Senior Research Associate.<\/p>\n<\/a>The Illustrated Catalogue<\/strong> of Insular, Anglo-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman Manuscript Art at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge<\/a> (2 volumes, 1997) report some of the fruits of the work of clearing the ground, ploughing the fields, sowing seeds, tending the crops, and preparing the harvest.\u00a0 The manuscripts inspected at the First Seminar found a welcome place\u00a0\u2014 illustrations included\u00a0\u2014 in that publication, thus:<\/p>\n\n
II.\u00a0 Seminars on “The Evidence of Manuscripts” (1989\u20131995), with Some Workshops, Visits, and a Symposium<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/strong>[For the Record:\u00a0 As the series of seminars began with its first meeting, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence took clearer form. We designed the logo, chose the official font, formed the plan for regular meetings to gather collaborative feedback, sought collaborative projects, prepared our first Style Manifesto<\/a>, and embarked on a concerted series of Seminars on the Evidence of Manuscripts.<\/em>]<\/p>\nThe Sequence<\/h3>\n
<\/a>1989<\/h2>\n
\nParker Library, 16 December 1989<\/p>\n1990<\/h2>\n
<\/a>“Facsimiles, Diplomatic Texts and Editions”<\/a>
\nParker Library, 17 March 1990
\nThis Seminar gave an exclusive preview of the Palaeographical and Textual Handbook<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nParker Library, 13 April 1990<\/p>\n
\nA Twelfth-Century Historical Miscellany
\nParker Library, 28 September 1990<\/p>\n1991<\/h2>\n
\nParker Library, 13 July 1991<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>
\nParker Library, 5 October 1991<\/p>\n
\nParker Library, 12 October 1991<\/p>\n
\nAn Anglo-Saxon Legal Codex of the Late Eleventh or Early Twelfth Century”<\/a>
\nParker Library, 16 November 1991<\/p>\n1992<\/h2>\n
\nThe Archaeological Record, Linguistic and Literary Evidence, and the Manuscripts”
\nParker Library, 11 January 1992<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>
\n<\/a>The Corpus Prudentius and the Saint-Bertin Prudentius”<\/a>
\nParker Library, 2 June 1992<\/p>\n
\n(With a Travelling Exhibition of Photographs)
\nPembroke College, Oxford, 20 June 1992<\/p>\n
\n(With a Travelling Exhibition of Photographs)
\nJapan, November and December 1992<\/p>\n
\nCollege of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo at Komaba, November 1992<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nChuo University, Tokyo, December 1992<\/p>\n
\nAoyama Gakuin University, 5 December 1992,
\nas part of the Eighth Annual General Congress of the Japan Society for Medieval English Studies<\/p>\n1993<\/h2>\n
\nParker Library, 27 February 1993<\/p>\n
\n(With a Travelling Exhibition of Photographs)
\nPembroke College, Oxford, 13 March 1993<\/p>\n
\nAn Eleventh-Century Collection of Homiletic, Legal, and Other Texts in Latin and Old English”<\/a>
\nParker Library, 19 June 1993<\/p>\n
\nAn Eleventh-Century Miscellany of Latin and Old English Texts Owned by Christ Church, Canterbury”<\/a>
\nBritish Library, 9 August 1993<\/p>\n
\nCalligraphic Techniques in Medieval Manuscripts and their Modern Descendants”<\/a>
\nParker Library, 15 November 1993<\/p>\n
\nParker Library, 11 December 1993<\/p>\n
\nBritish Library, 15 December 1993
\nreported in the Appendix<\/strong> to the Report for the next event, held in\u00a0January 1994<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>1994<\/h2>\n
\nParker Library, 15 January 1994
\nwith downloadable “Preliminary Report”<\/a><\/p>\n
\nParker Library, 4 March 1994<\/p>\n
\nEnglish Faculty, University of Oxford, 29 April 1994<\/p>\n
\nParker Library, 24 June 1994<\/p>\n
\nTheir Problems and Challenges”<\/a>
\nParker Library, 19 August 1994<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>
\nParker Library, 19 September 1994<\/p>\n1995<\/h2>\n
\nParker Library, June 1995<\/p>\nIII.\u00a0 Symposia on “The Transmission of the Bible” (1995\u20132000)<\/h2>\n
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IV.\u00a0 Workshops, Colloquia & Symposia (2001\u2013)<\/h2>\n
<\/a>2001
\n” ‘The Dating Service or The Dating Game?’
\nProblems and Potential of Dating Materials from the Early Medieval Period”<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/a>2002
\n“Shaping Understanding: Form and Order in the Anglo-Saxon World, 400\u20131100”<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\nA Colloquium at The British Museum, March 2002<\/h3>\n
2003<\/h3>\n
<\/a>“Innovations for Editing Texts
\nfrom Antiquity to Enlightenment”<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n2009
\n“Gathering at the Threshold:\u00a0\u00a0A Celebratory Symposium”<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n2013
\n\u201cIdentity & Authenticity:\u00a0\u00a0Creating, Preserving, & Transmitting Identities Across Time & Place\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/a><\/a>2014 (1)<\/h3>\n
“Recollections of the Past:
\nEditorial & Artistic Workshops from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity”<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/a>
\nCo-sponsored by
\nthe Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University,
\nthe Index of Christian Art at Princeton University,
\nand James Marrow and Emily Rose
\nand held in the Lewis Library in May 2014<\/p>\n2014 (2)<\/h3>\n
“When the Dust Has Settled, Or, When Good Scholars Go Back . . .<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
\nCo-sponsored by the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University,<\/p>\n
\nJohn H. Rassweiler, and
\nCelia Chazelle,
\nand held in McCormick Hall in November 2014<\/p>\n2016<\/h3>\n
2016 Symposium on Words & Deeds: Actions Enacted, Re-Enacted & Restored<\/a><\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/a><\/a>Princeton University, 25\u201326 March 2016
\nCo-sponsored by
\nThe Department of Art & Archaeology
\nThe Index of Christian Art
\nJames Marrow & Emily Rose<\/p>\n
\nProgram<\/a>
\nProgram Booklet<\/a>
\nReport<\/a><\/p>\n2018<\/h3>\n
2019 Anniversary Symposium<\/h3>\n
The Roads Taken, Or, The Obstacle Course<\/h2>\n
Challenges & Opportunities for
\nAssessing the Origins, Travels & Arrivals
\nof Manuscripts & Early Printed Materials<\/h3>\n2020<\/h3>\n