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Promotional Offer
\nfor
\nThe Illustrated Catalogue of
\nInsular, Anglo-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman Art<\/em>
\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Besides the Contributions & Donations<\/a> to our nonprofit educational corporation, which may be tax-deductible, here we offer the opportunity to purchase some selected publications.\u00a0 Developments allow us to start with our largest publication so far, as its distribution has passed into our care.\u00a0 This step creates an exceptional opportunity.<\/p>\n

Publications & Distribution<\/h3>\n

\"Logo<\/a>\"Logo<\/a>Most of our Publications<\/a> and Co-Publications are distributed free-of-charge, in print and\/or online, as part of our concerted program of disseminating information, research results, announcements of events, reports of their programs, and other materials.<\/p>\n

Almost all our publications, from the very beginning of our history, are the fruit\u00a0\u2014 often completely\u00a0\u2014 of our in-house design and layout.\u00a0 Some carry the first, monochrome, design of our logo (left); others the more recent color version (right), designed in honor of the move of our base to the United States.\u00a0 Many are illustrated with images donated by various sources, and reproduced by permission. The designs follow, and embody, the principles of the Research Group’s Style Manifesto<\/a> in its evolution over time, hand in hand with our Publications.<\/p>\n

The design, development, launch, and updates over the years for our copyright multilingual font Bembino<\/a> (available freely on this site for download and use) have provided a flexible resource for our layout.\u00a0 The font appears before your eyes on this updated version of our official website.\u00a0 This website, moreover, serves as a repository for an increasing number of our publications, as they appear on these pages and, frequently, become available for download as pages, booklets, and more.\u00a0 We continue to expand the dissemination of our publications, as they also grow.<\/p>\n

1. A New Page<\/h2>\n

The Illustrated Catalogue
\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Insular, Anglo-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman Manuscript Art<\/strong>
\nat Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
\n<\/strong>
\nAn Illustrated Catalogue<\/p>\n

by Mildred Budny
\nalso with Photography by Mildred Budny<\/p>\n

2-volume set (1997)
\nVolume 1. Text \u2014 Volume 2. Ilustrations
\nISBN 1-879288-87-7<\/p>\n

Description and Contents<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Catalogue<\/a>

Volume II: Plates<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Front<\/a>

Volume I: Text<\/p><\/div>\n

A new page in our history arrives, with the opportunity to create a Promotional Offer for our largest co-publication so far. Here you see the front covers of each volume, including our Research Group logo as co-publisher, stamped in gold at the lower left.<\/p>\n

You may be familiar with it already, but perhaps hesitated on account of its original $300.00 price for the 2-volume set.\u00a0 Even the occasional discount offers by the publisher at $240 for the set may have seemed steep for many would-be readers and owners.<\/p>\n

Now the time has come when you might more easily reach for your very own copy, and\/or a copy which you might wish to present to someone you know or to an institution you wish to encourage.<\/p>\n

With a change in direction, the publisher, Medieval Institute Publications of Western Michigan University, has decided to transfer the distribution of the volumes into the care of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence.\u00a0 We have agreed to take on that responsibility, and to approach the distribution in harmony with our nonprofit educational mission.<\/p>\n

Because the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence does not have many of the overheads of standard publishing firms, while needing to cover certain costs (such as the shipping from the Michigan publisher’s warehouse to Princeton), we can offer an attractive price.\u00a0 We have also had several requests for ordering more than one copy, expressly for the purpose of gifting as well as keeping, and so we respond accordingly with special pricing.<\/p>\n

This new approach may bring the volumes within the reach of scholars, teachers, institutions, and others who have an interest in its subjects.\u00a0 The materials, and the research results, can illuminate the fields of manuscript studies, illuminated medieval manuscripts, the history of design and layout (medieval and modern alike), library history, the history of collecting, and the fascinating perennial habits of adding marginalia to books \u2014 sketches and scribbles included.\u00a0 Many beautiful and fanciful images enliven these pages.<\/p>\n

(P.S.\u00a0 The text of the catalogue has some jokes, too, according with the spirited sense of its author, who loves looking at manuscript and books.\u00a0 You might recognize the style from some of her posts on our Research Group Facebook Page<\/a> . . . . )<\/p>\n

\"Page<\/a>

Contents List in the Brochure for the Catalogue designed by Linda K. Judy of Medieval Institute Publications<\/p><\/div>\n

Design and Layout:
\nIntegrating Form and Function<\/h3>\n

In the 2-volume design, the very many illustrations, reproducing photographs expressly taken for this publication, may be examined side-by-side with the textual commentary and descriptions.\u00a0 The layout of the text, designed and completed by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, corresponds with its Style Manifesto<\/a>, in the years before the creation of Bembino<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Illustrated Catalogue<\/strong> represents a landmark in the evolution of our design for publications.\u00a0 It does so not least because it employs some special characters (such as for Old English, Middle English, and Greek) commissioned expressly for the purpose, to augment and complement the chosen font Adobe Garamond<\/a>\u00a0 \u2014 the official font of the Research Group before the development of Bembino, with its very many more ‘special’ characters and more languages to support.<\/p>\n

In its approach to layout, the Illustrated Catalogue<\/strong> manifests the practices specified in the then-current state of the Style Manifesto<\/strong>, as represented by its now-downloadable version of October 1999<\/strong><\/a>. (The present version of 2015 is also downloadable<\/strong><\/a> for comparison.)<\/p>\n

The Illustrated Catalogue<\/strong> is a significant stepping-stone in this unfolding journey.\u00a0 The continued steps are manifested, for example, in our Galleries of Posters on Display<\/a> and Layout Designs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Many Illustrations,
\nPhotographed for This Publication<\/h3>\n

The production and publication of these volumes preceded the emergence of the internet and the preparation of digital facsimiles of manuscripts. Here, however, it is possible to view a generous span of photographs illustrating the selected pages of numerous books, and without a costly pay-wall as the high price of admission. Also, the photographs show some aspects not visible in the online digital facsimiles.<\/p>\n

The catalogue entries \u2014 with descriptions, analysis, and reports of cumulative and collaborative research results from the major 7-year Research Project at the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College (designed in part by our Director, Mildred Budny, then as the Senior Research Associate at the Library)\u00a0\u2014 remain pertinent for study.<\/p>\n

Altogether, including a section of color plates and the frontispieces to each volume, the plates show nearly 800 pages from the manuscripts, and mostly they show the full present extent of the pages, such as history has allowed to remain.\u00a0 As always, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence considers, where possible, the full range of the extant evidence.\u00a0 The Illustrated Catalogue<\/strong> contributes to this aim, as it sets out the integrated approach upon which the Research Group has continued to build in practice.\u00a0 Our website documents and showcases these foundations and their unfolding developments.<\/p>\n

The Methodological Introduction<\/h3>\n

So, too, the substantial Introduction to the Illustrated Catalogue<\/strong> stands the tests of time. It surveys and defines both ‘The Scope and Structure of the Catalogue’<\/strong> (Volume I, pages xxxiii\u2013civ) in a series of sections setting forth the principles and practices selected for the preparation of the catalogue, as well as introducing the nature of the materials under examination.<\/p>\n

The outline of those sections shows their range and breadth.<\/p>\n

I.\u00a0 The Scope<\/h4>\n

I.1.\u00a0 The Manuscripts and Their Range
\nI.2.\u00a0 Makers, Donors, Owners, and Annotators
\n(Medieval; Early Modern and Modern)
\nI.3.\u00a0 The Bindings
\nI.4.\u00a0 The Manuscripts and Their Contents
\n(Texts and Accompaniments; Layout and Scripts; Decoration and Illustration)<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 The Structure<\/h4>\n

2.1.\u00a0 The Order of the Entries
\n2.2.\u00a0 The Entries
\n(Heading; Number, Character, and Size of Leaves; Type of Book;
\nLanguage, Layout, Script, and Art;
\nDate, Place of Origin, and Provenance; Binding and Condition;
\nBibliographical References; Contents;
\nInventory of Decoration and Illustration)
\n2.3.\u00a0 Works Cited and Suggestions for Further Reading
\n2.4.\u00a0 Index of Manuscripts
\n2.5.\u00a0 Plates<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 The Ensemble<\/h4>\n

We quote (page civ):<\/p>\n

‘The presentation of the catalogue and plates in two volumes is designed to enable the reader to examine the plates and their commentary as directly as possible.\u00a0 The many plates, showing whole pages or openings from the manuscripts, seek to convey a sense of encountering the books themselves, turning their pages, discovering their hidden secrets as the course of the text and images unfolds, and returning to refresh acquaintance with them.<\/p>\n

‘The illustrated catalogue aims to offer a glimpse into the wealth and range of materials preserved at Corpus Christi College from the early modern period.\u00a0 Its corpus of Insular, Anglo-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman manuscript art provides remarkable and wide-ranging evidence for the production, embellishment, and use of books during a series of formative and innovative periods in the art of the British Isles.\u00a0 While the manuscripts might not move from their present place of safe-keeping \u2014 and while very few outside readers have the3 chance of extended, in-depth examination of the whole group as well as its relatives over numerous years, guided by an intensive, integrated approach bridging very many different disciplines \u2014 nevertheless the images reproduced here from the manuscripts, accompanied by their introductions, descriptions, and evaluations in the catalogue entries, might bring detailed knowledge of their legacy to a much wider world’.<\/p>\n

Prescient, Perhaps?<\/h3>\n

\"Gold-stamped<\/a>\"Gold-stamped<\/a>In the years following this publication, many forms of dedicated work on these manuscripts, related manuscripts, manuscripts overall, the transmission of the various texts, the phenomena of marginalia in books, library history, and the fields of palaeography, codicology, musicology, textual studies, art history, and other subjects, have contributed significantly to the knowledge of the materials and the complexities of their evidence.\u00a0 The Illustrated Catalogue<\/strong> represents a special stage in the progress of such quests.\u00a0 It merits a continuing place in the pursuit of increased understanding of the materials themselves, their context, and the development of our collective approaches to knowledge of these and other fields of study.<\/p>\n

2. How To Order<\/h2>\n

We invite you to order copies of this major publication with our new Promotional Offer.<\/p>\n

In contrast to the original publisher’s price of $300 US, the price is now $97 per 2-volume set, or $92 per set for more than 1 copy.\u00a0 It ships in its original packing box, brand-new, with each volume protected in its original shrink-wrapping.\u00a0 Gift wrapping is an available option.<\/p>\n

For convenience, you may order your copy<\/p>\n