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. Besides presenters and respondents from that session, we welcome an in-person attendee then, Mark Saltviet, 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 his expression of interest which inspired the preparation of our new guide:<\/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 We gather speakers and respondents to present case-studies and invite discussion.<\/p>\n Milly will introduce the session and its speakers, moderate the Q&A, and contribute her own reflections upon long-term work on manuscripts containing Figured Texts of many kinds.<\/p>\n Michael might be able to attend to reflect upon his close study of Hrabanus Maurus’s life and work, thereby developing his report for our 2026 Leeds session on the monumental illustrated manuscripts and printed editions<\/p>\n Mark will report on a forthcoming publication:<\/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 BL Harley MS 2735 (c. 860 CE).\u00a0 A generous tip from 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 2 church inscriptions from de Rossi’s ICUR II, 8\u00a0versus recurrentes\u00a0<\/i>(5 unpublished), an unpublished ekphrastic distich about two miracles of the Apostle Peter, two\u00a0carmen minora\u00a0<\/i>of Claudian, and Ps-Seneca’s\u00a0De qualitate temporis.\u00a0\u00a0<\/i>Our\u00a0editio princeps\u00a0<\/i>is in revision at Scriptorium.<\/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 David will speak about his long-term work on the marginal notes in a manuscript containing multiple authors, which he prepares for a critical edition for Patrologia Micrologica<\/strong>. Including works on medicine and the natural sciences, the authors include Sidonius Apollinarius, Apuleius, Bernardus Silvestris, Bernardus Magister, and others. For its contents and digital facsimile, see:<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n See you there!<\/p>\n *******<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RGME Workshops on “The Evidence of Manuscripts, Etc.” Workshop 10 (Sunday 25 October 2026 online) “Manuscripts at Play, Continued: Figured Texts” [Posted on 1 October 2026] 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
1. Mildred Budny <\/strong>(Executive Director, Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)<\/h3>\n
2. Michael Allman Conrad <\/strong>(University of Konstanz)<\/h3>\n
3. Mark Saltveit<\/h3>\n
“The Palindrome Sylloge”<\/h4>\n
4. Antony R. Henk <\/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><\/h4>\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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5. David Porreca <\/strong>(Department of Classical Studies, University of Waterloo)<\/h3>\n
“Figured Glosses for Classical and Other Authors
\nin the Copenhagen Fabricius Compendium<\/em>“<\/h4>\n\n
Registration<\/h2>\n
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