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RGME Workshops
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\n\u201cThe Evidence of Manuscripts, Etc.\u201d<\/h1>\n

Workshop 6
\n\u201cWhat\u2019s In a Name?
\nGuides to Nomenclature
\nfor Manuscript Studies\u201d
\nSunday 27 April 2025<\/h2>\n
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Jan Van Eyck, The Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele, 1434\u201336, Bruges, Groeningemuseum (detail), image from the Closer to Van Eyck project (https:\/\/closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be\/)<\/p><\/div>\n

[Posted on 16 April 2025<\/em>]<\/p>\n

Continuing our series of RGME Workshops on “The Evidence of Manuscripts, Etc.”<\/a>, we move from the first series, Workshops 1\u20135 devoted principally to identifying selected Medieval Latin Vulgate Bible Manuscript Fragments.<\/p>\n

The Name ‘Game’<\/h2>\n

By request, for Workshop 6 we will consider \u2018best practices\u2019 with regard to the use of Nomenclature<\/a> for Manuscript Studies.<\/p>\n

We explore the range of terms in use (in English and other languages) for different parts of books, from the outside in. In this way, we consider the merits \u2014 or otherwise \u2014 of terms in use for different parts of manuscripts, books, bindings, and other features of the material evidence of written sources. How helpful and comprehensible are the systems of terminology?<\/p>\n

Examples of reference works online and in print will be examined, with observations on their usefulness for various purposes, types of books, problems, and approaches.<\/p>\n

Do you have specific questions? We can help.<\/p>\n

Add-On<\/h2>\n

Since Workshop 5, a new discovery of a medieval Latin Bible leaf has come to light, so that we might briefly introduce it to our ongoing project on those materials.<\/p>\n

The owner contacted us because of our blog on Manuscript Studies<\/a>, which featured some leaves from the same Bible manuscript despoiled and distributed by Otto F. Ege<\/a>, biblioclast. His work, its widespread legacy, and multiple projects dedicated to identifying and reconstructing (at least virtually) the fragments of manuscripts inspired us to prepare our 2025 Autumn Colloquium on “Break-Up Books and Make-Up Books”.<\/p>\n