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\"ShelfMarks<\/a><\/p>\n

Our occasional RGME-Newsletter resumes<\/h2>\n

Announcing:
\n<\/em>Issue 2
\nVolume 2, Number 1 (Winter 2022\u20132023)<\/h2>\n

[Posted on 10 December 2022<\/em>]<\/p>\n

ShelfMarks<\/strong>, the occasional RGME Newsletter, experienced a long interval between Volumes 1 and 2:\u00a0 Issues 1 and 2, <\/strong>respectively for Autumn 2014<\/strong> and Winter 2022\u20132023<\/strong>.\u00a0 The first was published on 8 October 2014.\u00a0 Issue 2 appears, at last, in December 2022.<\/p>\n

In between, the RGME had to turn to many other tasks \u2014 their work and results are reported among, for example, our Events<\/a> and blogs on Manuscript Studies<\/a> and our activities at the International Congress on Medieval Studies<\/a> \u2014 and to await the help of a new Co-Editor.\u00a0 Now, with the formation of the new Editorial Committee in 2022 and many other activities, both resumed and transformed or newly adopted, we turn again to our occasional Newsletter<\/strong> and e-Newsletter<\/strong>, with the help of an Editorial Team.<\/p>\n

Issue 2 is freely available for download as a pdf.\u00a0 See below.<\/p>\n

Our Newsletter<\/h2>\n

Our Newsletter and e-Newsletter ShelfMarks<\/strong> stands among our various Publications<\/a>, both online and in print.\u00a0 It aims to report activities, work-in-progress, research results, discoveries, questions, reviews, and news.\u00a0 The alternate forms in print and digital transmission allows our RGME-Newletter to appear by email, on screens, and it print.<\/p>\n

\"Opening

Opening Page of ‘ShelfMarks’ Issue 1 (Autumn 2014).<\/p><\/div>\n

The printed version of ShelfMarks<\/strong> displays our own font Bembino<\/strong>\u00a0 and our design layout, set out page by page in full. \u00a0(8 pages in both the first and second Issues.)\u00a0 Its PDF form preserves the layout which we created.<\/p>\n

The EMAIL version, formerly circulated via MailChimp<\/strong>, provides excerpts and highlights, with links in further directions, set out in web form \u2014 plus some images of its own.<\/p>\n

To distinguish between these forms, as an aid to bibliographers, book-lovers, and all of our friends, we think of the e-version as a form of ShelfTags<\/strong> for ShelfMarks<\/strong>.\u00a0 The e-version provides a summary, with illustrations, of what is happening in the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence.<\/p>\n

ShelfMarks<\/span> (Print)<\/strong>
\nISSN<\/span> 2377-4096<\/p>\n

[<\/span>ShelfTags for<\/em>] ShelfMarks<\/span> (Online)<\/strong>
\nISSN<\/span> 2377-4118<\/p>\n

We invite you to explore further, and to join the conversation.<\/p>\n

Issue 1 of our Newsletter was edited by Mildred Budny and Jim Tigwell.<\/p>\n

Issue 2 is compiled, edited, and partly written by Mildred Budny.\u00a0 An Editorial Team<\/strong>, with members of the RGME Editorial Committee<\/strong>, aided the work immeasurably.<\/p>\n

Please send items, announcements, suggestions for book reviews, and conference or exhibition listings to the Editors: \u00a0director@manuscriptevidence.org<\/a>.
\nTo subscribe, contact\u00a0director@manuscriptevidence.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

Contents of\u00a0 Issue 2: Volume 2, Number 1 (Winter 2022\u20132023)<\/h2>\n
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Private Collection, MS 1, Folio ‘130’ recto, detail. Photography by Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n

1) “The Director’s Cut”<\/h3>\n

Highlights of RGME activities since Issue 1, described by our Director<\/em><\/p>\n

Between Issue 1 (Volume 1, Number 1 for Autumn 2014) and Issue 2 (Volume 2, Number 1 for Winter 2022\u20132023), we greatly developed the scope of our redesigned Website,<\/strong> with active blogs on Manuscript Studies<\/strong> and on our activities at the International Congress on Medieval Studies<\/strong> (ICMS).\u00a0 The website describes our projects and publications, offers galleries of images, and reports our events.\u00a0 It also provides open access to many of our Publications<\/strong>, including our own multi-lingual font Bembino<\/strong> (now in Version 1.6).<\/p>\n

Besides our sponsored and co-sponsored Sessions<\/strong> (as well as Receptions<\/strong> and Open Business Meetings<\/strong>) at the ICMS, developments include organizing Symposia<\/strong> and other events, for which we began to publish Posters<\/strong> and illustrated Booklets<\/strong>.\u00a0 New genres also have emerged:<\/p>\n

1) Research Booklets<\/strong> and Program Booklets<\/strong><\/p>\n

2) Interviews<\/strong> and Surveys<\/strong><\/p>\n

3) A Gallery<\/strong> of specimens (mostly hitherto unpublished) for Watermarks and the History of Paper<\/a><\/p>\n

4) Episodes<\/strong> for “The Research Group Speaks<\/a>“<\/p>\n

5) Pre-Congress Business Meetings<\/strong>, held online for our wider audience<\/p>\n

Since 2020, when our Spring Symposium had to be cancelled, we turned at first, after publishing its Program Booklet anyway, to reporting a backlog of discoveries for our blog on Manuscript Studies<\/a>.\u00a0 By 2021, our online activities began in May with the revived ICMS (cancelled in 2020) and a Pre-Congress Business Meeting to plan beforehand.\u00a0 In July, an online Interview with Barbara Williams Ellertson (about her interests in books and the formation of the BASIRA Project<\/a>) launched the series wherein “The Research Group Speaks”.\u00a0 By November 2022, the series had reached Episode 9; more are planned.<\/p>\n

In 2022, we resumed our Symposia, online, before the opportunity for in-person events returns.\u00a0 For the first time, we held two Symposia in a single year.\u00a0 Thus began the paired Spring and Autumn Symposia<\/a> devoted to a shared theme:\u00a0 “Structured Knowledge” in 2022, and, planned for 2024, “Materials and Access”.\u00a0\u00a0 With the 2022 Autumn Symposium<\/a>, we resumed the preparation and publication of its illustrated Booklet, in 54 pages.<\/p>\n

Issue 2 of the RGME Newsletter joins this spirit, and this accomplishment, of revivals.\u00a0 They form part of the work toward 2023 and beyond.\u00a0 For our Anniversary Year in 2024, the RGME would celebrate<\/p>\n

1) 25 years as a nonprofit educational corporation, officially recognized as a 501(c)(3) organization based in Princeton, New Jersey<\/p>\n

2) 35 years as an international scholarly society, founded in the United Kingdom as part of a collaborative research project (1987\u20131994) at Corpus Christi College in the University of Cambridge<\/p>\n

Like Issue 1 , Issue 2 offers the opportunity to celebrate and advance our activities.<\/p>\n

\""The<\/h3>\n

2) “The Bouquet List:\u00a0 A Gathering of Books”<\/h3>\n

The second in the series of reviews by Mildred Budny<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The title alludes to the widespread medieval genre of florilegia<\/strong> (“gatherings of flowers”).\u00a0 We may think of the blooms in our gatherings as forms of Bouquets of Circles<\/a>, or roses<\/a>, in a mathematical sense, relating to overlapping or interlinked circles or ovals joined at a center.<\/p>\n

The series is designed mainly for notices of books prepared by, or partly by, RGME Associates, Officers, and Volunteers, or related to RGME events.\u00a0 The books under consideration in this issue (with RGME names in bold<\/strong>):<\/p>\n

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  1. Gregory T. Clark<\/strong>, Art in a Time of War: The Master of Morgan 453 and\u00a0Manuscript\u00a0Illumination in Paris during\u00a0the\u00a0English Occupation (1419-1435)<\/em> (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2016<\/a>). ISBN 978-0-88844-197-3.<\/li>\n
  2. Tributes to Adelaide Bennett Hagens<\/strong>: Manuscripts, Iconography, and the Medieval Viewer<\/em>, edited by\u00a0Pamela\u00a0A.\u00a0Patton<\/strong> and Judith K. Golden (London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publications, 2017<\/a>). ISBN 978-1-909400-79-5.<\/li>\n
  3. Celia Chazelle<\/strong> , The Codex Amiatinus and\u00a0its\u00a0Sister Bibles: Scripture, Liturgy, and Art in\u00a0the Milieu of\u00a0the\u00a0Venerable\u00a0Bede<\/em> (Leiden: Brill, 2019<\/a>). ISBN 978-90-39013-3.<\/li>\n
  4. Dan Attrell and David Porreca<\/strong>, Picatrix: A\u00a0Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic, translated with\u00a0an\u00a0Introduction<\/em> (University Park: Penn State Press, 2019<\/a>). ISBN 978-0-271-08212-7.<\/li>\n
  5. Michael A. Conrad<\/strong>, Ludische Prais und\u00a0Kontingenz-bew\u00e4ltigung im\u00a0Spielebuch Alfons\u2019 X. und anderen Quellen des\u00a013.\u00a0Jahrhunderts. Spiel als Modell guten\u00a0Entscheidens<\/em> (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022<\/a>). ISBN 978-3-11-076440-6.<\/li>\n
  6. Donncha MacGabhann<\/strong>, The Book of Kells: A\u00a0Masterwork Revealed<\/em> (Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2022<\/a>). ISBN 978-9-46-426123-3.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Folio 5r from the Codex Amiatinus (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Amiatinus 1). Image via Creative Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n

    3)”Links to Explore”<\/h3>\n

    Directions for web-references in the form of endnotes.<\/em><\/p>\n

    [Note<\/em>:
    \nOver time, and with changes in the names or structures of organizations or services, some links in the list for Issue 1 (see     ShelfMarks<\/a>) became unusable.\u00a0 We try to remedy the lapses where they come to notice.]<\/p>\n

    4) “The 2022 RGME Participants’ Survey”<\/h3>\n

    A report by the Editorial Team<\/strong>, showing that Your Voices are Heard<\/em>.<\/p>\n

    In 2022, the RGME carried out two Surveys<\/strong>.\u00a0 The first addressed the Editorial Committee<\/strong> (a creation of 2022), while the second turned to our wider audience of Participants<\/strong>.\u00a0 Prepared by Jessica L. Savage (who designed the Surveys), the Reports of Responses to both Surveys in turn showed a broad range of interests, which may guide planning for future events and topics, and offers to present at RGME events and to help in other ways.<\/p>\n

    We thank the Respondents for their comments, suggestions, and wishes.<\/p>\n

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    Word Cloud of Responses to the 2022 Editorial Committee Survey. Prepared by Jessica L. Savage.<\/p><\/div>\n

    The Tradition Resumes<\/h2>\n

    For comparison, and as a demonstration of continuity within change, we exhibit the front pages, or covers, of Issues 1 and 2.\u00a0 Gladly, after eagerly awaiting its appearance, we welcome Issue 2 into the fold of RGME Publications.<\/p>\n

    Issue 1:<\/p>\n

    \"Opening

    Opening Page of ‘ShelfMarks’ 1<\/p><\/div>\n

    Issue 2:<\/p>\n

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    ShelfMarks Issue 2, Page 1 (Front Cover)<\/p><\/div>\n

    Printed Version of ShelfMarks<\/em><\/h3>\n

    The PDF version of this issue is available for download here.\u00a0 (Issue 1 is here<\/strong><\/a>.)<\/p>\n

    Issue 2<\/strong>.\u00a0 We offer its pdf (8 pages in quarto format) in two versions.<\/p>\n