We continue our series of workshops on “The Evidence of Manuscripts Etc.”<\/strong> It comprises a range of styles including presentations, interviews, roundtables, and other forms of conversations. For information about the series:<\/p>\n This time, by request, we revisit, expand upon, and follow forward on the subjects which we presented for the RGME sponsored session at the 2026 International Medieval Congress in July 2026. See<\/p>\n 2026 IMC Poster 2 (Image)<\/p><\/div>\n For our Workshop, we gather panelists, respondents, and participants of that session to develop more aspects of the subject, report further work, and contribute to the conversation for a wider audience, also the view for a recording to ensure a longer-lasting record.<\/p>\n Presenters and Respondents from that session return to expand upon their contributions and\/or to present variations upon them or new subjects responding to the theme of “Figured Texts”<\/strong>. We also welcome an in-person attendee from that session, Mark Saltviet<\/strong>, who contributed questions and comments during the Q&A for the session and then contacted the RGME Director with the interest of participating in our activities.<\/p>\n It was Mark’s expression of interest which inspired the preparation of our new guide about joining the RGME:<\/p>\n Contributors at the 2026 Leeds Session:<\/p>\n 2026 IMC Poster 1 (Text)<\/p><\/div>\n We gather to compare notes and join in discussion. The subjects of manuscripts (and other written records) in terms of their figural and figured approaches to the words as laid out on the writing surfaces, and as intended to be construed or parsed or puzzled out, have many directions. Some we have touched upon in the 2026 session on “Manuscripts at Play and as Play” at Leeds. Some we will continue to explore or broach afresh in our Workshop 11. Some may emerge for consideration, perhaps also for further exploration, at the Workshop.<\/p>\n We welcome you to bring your interests, questions, and suggestions.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We gather speakers and respondents from our 2026 IMC session to present case-studies, report work-in-progress, and invite discussion. In alphabetical order:<\/p>\n Mildred Budny<\/strong> We hope that at another time Michael Allman Conrad<\/strong>, the organiser and speaker for the 2026 IMS Leeds session, might join us to reflect upon his close study of Hrabanus Maurus’s life and work, to expand his erudite report on the monumental illustrated manuscripts and printed editions.<\/p>\n Our Director will introduce the session and its speakers, moderate the Q&A portion of the session, and contribute her own reflections upon long-term work on manuscripts (and other forms) containing ‘Figured Texts’ of many kinds.<\/p>\n Stockholm, National Library of Sweden, Codex A. 135), page 23. Image digitized by the National Library of Sweden, via https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Codex_Aureus_(A_135)#\/media\/File.<\/p><\/div>\n Mark will report on a forthcoming publication.\u00a0In his words:<\/p>\n The most consequential discovery I’ve made is what we’re now calling “The Palindrome Sylloge,” a previously unknown collection of 14 Latin poems from late antiquity or perhaps the very early medieval period, found (illegibly) on the front flyleaf of British Library Harley MS 2735<\/a> (c. 860 CE).\u00a0 A generous tip from [RGME Trustee<\/em>] David Ganz led me to it and I’ve had assistance from many top scholars in different fields in wrestling it to the ground.\u00a0 It has:<\/p>\n Our\u00a0editio princeps\u00a0<\/i>is in revision at the journal Scriptorium<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The manuscript containing the flyleaf comprises a copy of the Liber Glossarum<\/em> encyclopedia written circa 850-860 CE. Mark’s forthcoming publication, to which we look forward, will appear as:<\/p>\n “BL Harley MS 2735 fol.1r: A Pioneering Work of Carolingian Fragmentology?”<\/p>\n London, British Library, Harley MS 2735, fol. 1r. Image via https:\/\/iiif.biblissima.fr\/collections\/manifest\/c34b28511233852e9ea568897ba4f0d4aea4e6ef.<\/p><\/div>\n David will speak about his long-term work on the marginal notes in a manuscript containing multiple authors, amounting to a Christian Neoplatonic compendium, which he prepares for a critical edition to appear in the annual journal Micrologus (<\/strong>https:\/\/www.sismelfirenze.it\/ Containing works on medicine, the natural sciences, and other texts, the authors represented in the compendium include:<\/p>\n Stylistic and other features point to a date of the twelfth or thirteenth century and origin probably in France.\u00a0For its contents and digital facsimile, see:<\/p>\n Copenhagen, Det Konglige Bibliotek, MS Fabricius 91 4\u00b0, fol. 1r: Danish Royal Library, by permission<\/p><\/div>\n In Antony’s words:<\/p>\n In my response paper for the 2026 Leeds session \u2018Manuscripts at Play and as Play: Temporalities and (Re)Configurations as Reading Methods\u2019<\/a>, I discussed how the diagrams which accompany many manuscript recensions of Adomn\u00e1n\u2019s De locis sanctis<\/em> can be understood as tools which facilitate Jean Leclerq\u2019s concept (1961) of the peregrinatio in stabilitate<\/em>. I suggested that these diagrams of holy sites are analogous to the \u2018battle maps\u2019 or \u2018dungeon maps\u2019 used in tabletop role-playing games, in that they allow the audience to more concretely visualise physical space than is possible via narrative description alone.<\/p>\n In my revisit to this topic and framework, I wish to examine how various copies of Adomn\u00e1n\u2019s work, and copies of Bede\u2019s epitome of it, engage in \u2018playing\u2019 with these maps and the locations they aim to depict. In particular, I will explore the interplay of text and drawing, as well as the scribe-artists\u2019 widely varying treatments of visual symbol, abstraction, and aestheticism.<\/p>\n Background<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n For a digital facsimile of a manuscript with Adomn\u00e1n’s illustrated text, see:<\/p>\n Adomn\u00e1n, De locis sanctis, Diagram of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Paris, Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France, D\u00e9partement des Manuscrits,\u00a0 MS Latin 13048, f. 4v: Detail, Image Public Domain via https:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/btv1b10533305c\/f16.item.<\/p><\/div>\n *****<\/p>\n See you there!<\/p>\n *******<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RGME Workshops on “The Evidence of Manuscripts, Etc.” Workshop 11 (Sunday 25 October 2026 online) “Manuscripts at Play, Continued: Figured Texts” [Posted on 1 October 2026, with updates] We continue our series of workshops on “The Evidence of Manuscripts Etc.” It comprises a range of styles including presentations, interviews, roundtables, and other forms of conversations. 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The Purpose<\/h2>\n
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The Plan<\/h2>\n
The Team<\/h2>\n
\nAntony Henk<\/strong>
\nDavid Porreca<\/strong>
\nMark Saltviet<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Program<\/h2>\n
1. Mildred Budny
\n<\/strong>Executive Director, Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/h3>\n“Figured Texts as Genre”<\/h3>\n
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2. Mark Saltveit
\nIndependent Scholar<\/h3>\n“The Palindrome Sylloge”<\/h3>\n
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3. David Porreca
\n<\/strong>Department of Classical Studies, University of Waterloo<\/h3>\n“Figured Glosses for Classical and Other Authors
\nin the Copenhagen Fabricius Compendium<\/em>“<\/h3>\n\n
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4. Antony R. Henk
\n<\/strong>Ruhr-Universit\u00e4t Bochum<\/h3>\n“Playing with Sacred Space:
\nMapping and Re-Mapping the Holy Land
\nin Manuscripts of Adomn\u00e1n\u2019s and Bede\u2019s De locis sanctis”<\/em><\/h3>\n\n
\nAdomn\u00e1n’s De locis sanctis<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
\nBede’s De locis sanctis<\/a><\/li>\n
\nStudia Monastica<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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Registration<\/h2>\n
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