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<\/a>In the Series of Seminars on the Evidence of Manuscripts<\/a>\nThe Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
\n(13 April 1990)
\nInvitation in pdf<\/a><\/p>\n
The previous seminar in the series considered Facsimiles, Diplomatic Texts and Editions<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n [First published on 5 January 2015, with updates<\/em>]<\/p>\n The invitation to the seminar observed:<\/p>\n “We hope that this subject may interest those concerned with early manuscripts as well as those concerned with later uses made of them.”<\/p>\n The speakers and their subjects:<\/p>\n As promised in the invitation, we were able to consider a variety of interventions, both in manuscripts, and, correspondingly, in printed books in Matthew Parker’s collection.<\/p>\n We examined:<\/p>\n MS 12<\/a> (the Cura Pastorali<\/em>s in Old English) Invitations were sent to:<\/p>\n David Wilson, Mildred Budny, Christine Fell, R.I. Page, Andrew Watson, Patrick Wormald, Leslie French, Nicholas Hadgraft, Patrick Collinson, Nigel Wilkins, Catherine Hall, Nigel Ramsay, Simon Keynes, Kathryn Lowe, Richard Sharpe, and Malcolm Godden.<\/p>\n Present:<\/p>\n David Wilson, Mildred Budny, Christine Fell, R.I. Page, Andrew Watson, Patrick Wormald, Leslie French, Nicholas Hadgraft, Nigel Wilkins, Catherine Hall, Nigel Ramsay, Simon Keynes, Kathryn Lowe, and Malcolm Godden.<\/p>\n The Research Group Archives retain letters of thanks. Dr. Richard Sharpe<\/a><\/strong>, on letterhead of the Faculty of Modern History at the University of Oxford, handwrote his letter in blue ink, with the date 30 March ’91 and signed with the initials RS<\/em>: “Thanks for the invitation to your 16th-cent. session, which promises to be most interesting.”<\/p>\n On the letterhead of his home address in Oxford and his signature “Andrew” in blue ink, the typescript letter of 14 April 1991 from Andrew Watson<\/a> records his experience as presenter and participant. He wrote:<\/p>\n This is a bread-and-gateau (or gateau-and-butter) letter, to thank you and your colleagues for a highly enjoyable day yesterday.\u00a0 Although I have handled a good many manuscripts in my time I was more than a little impressed by those you produced for us, and by the nature of the work you are doing on them.\u00a0 I have always been a firm believer in examining manuscripts within their family circle as it were, and in the Parker Library you have the ideal situation for that.\u00a0 So very best wishes for your progress.<\/p>\n Apart from its academic side, the day was a most enjoyable social occasion. . . . I greatly enjoyed my lunch but in addition to that it was a pleasure to see some old friends and to meet others who were strangers or with whom I had only corresponded.<\/p>\n In time, all but one of these manuscripts examined on the day came to figure in the Illustrated Catalogue<\/a> (2 volumes, 1997) emanating from the long-term, integrated research work on selected Anglo-Saxon and related manuscripts at The Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.\u00a0 The stages of the research work are recorded, for example, in the Annual Reports to the Leverhulme Trust, described in our Publications<\/a>.<\/p>\n The manuscripts are:<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n [Note:<\/em> *****<\/p>\nThe Plan<\/h3>\n
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\nMS 173<\/a> (the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle<\/em>)
\nMS 197B<\/a> (the Corpus portion of the Cambridge-London Gospels<\/em>)
\nMS 9<\/a> (the Corpus portion of the Cotton-Corpus Legendary<\/em>)
\nMS 449<\/a> (\u00c6lfric’s Grammar<\/em> and Glossary<\/em>)
\nMS 452<\/a> (Eadmer’s Historia novorum<\/em>)
\nMSS 162<\/a>, 188<\/a>, and 178<\/a> (Old English homily collections)<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nThank-You Letters and Notes<\/h3>\n
Results (inter alia)<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>MS 12 = Budny<\/a> Number 13
\nMS 173, Parts I and II = Budny<\/a> Numbers 4 and 11
\nMS 197B = Budny<\/a> Number 3
\nMS 9 = Budny<\/a> Number 41
\nMS 162, Part I = Budny<\/a> Number 28
\nMS 188 = Budny<\/a> Number 37
\nMS 178, Part II = Budny<\/a> Number 35 ]<\/p>\n
\nIn time, with the development of the website of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence (You are Here), our blog on Manuscript Studies<\/a> (also with a Contents List<\/a>), one of the early posts recorded another memorable conversation with Andrew Watson: “Foundling Hospital” for Manuscript Fragments<\/a>.]<\/p>\n