\nMainly at the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge<\/p>\n
[First published on 11 February 2015, with updates<\/em>]<\/p>\n The seminar presented the work in progress at the Library on a series of sample facsimiles of pages from early medieval manuscripts, with transcriptions and commentaries, to teach postgraduate students the elements of manuscript study.\u00a0 We began with an account of its aims, with a demonstration of the range of representations of the selected pages or facing pages.<\/p>\n The series proceed from photographic facsimile of the original at original size (with scale and colour guide), through computerised representation of the layout of the texts upon its page(s), to transcription, edition, and translation, with commentary. \u00a0 Then we sought “comments from some of the younger members who remember more clearly their problems on first approaching materials in manuscript . . . and from others, particularly from those whose expertise lies outside textual material, but who use it in their work.”\u00a0\u00a0 The original manuscripts were also available for comparison.<\/p>\n We examined the cases selected so far for this approach:<\/p>\n David Wilson, Christine Fell, Mildred Budny, Nicholas Hadgraft, Patrick Wormald, Richard Sharpe, Leslie Webster, David Parsons, Kathryn Lowe, Carol Hough, Richard Gem, Timothy Graham, James Graham-Campbell, Donald Bullough, Leslie French, Andy Hopper.<\/p>\n Carmen Acevedo A typescript report of this Meeting of the Seminar was prepared by Mildred Budny.\u00a0 It survives in the Research Group Archives.<\/p>\n Accounts of the progress on the Handbook<\/strong> appear in the Annual Reports to the Leverhulme Trust.\u00a0 (See our list of Publications<\/a>.)\u00a0 A summary account of The Palaeographical and Textual Handbook<\/strong> appeared in print:<\/p>\n Mildred Budny’s description of *****<\/p>\n![\"Cover](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pal-Textual-Handbook-Cover-for-Seminar-with-border-232x300.png\")
<\/a>This seminar demonstrated the current state of The Palaeographical and Textual Handbook<\/strong>, in course of preparation as a teaching text for manuscript studies.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"'Facsimiles,](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Facsimiles-Etc-Seminar-Invitation-17-Mar-1990-with-border-209x300.png\")
<\/a>Invitation<\/a><\/strong> in pdf here.\u00a0 Note the addition of the sign of an opened pair of scissors to cue the motion for separating the RSVP slip from the single-page Invitation Letter.\u00a0 The sign represents part of the evolution of the form for the Invitation Letters of the Series.<\/p>\n\n
\n[= Number 13 in the Illustrated Catalogue<\/a> and now online<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\n[= Number 38 in the Illustrated Catalogue<\/a> and now online<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\n[= Number 11 in the Illustrated Catalogue<\/a> and now online<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\n[= Number 12 in the Illustrated Catalogue<\/a> and now online<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\n[= Number 3 in the Illustrated Catalogue<\/a> and now online<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\n[= Number 21 in the Illustrated Catalogue<\/a> and now online<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\n[= Number 44 in the Illustrated Catalogue<\/a> and now online<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nInvitations were sent to:<\/h3>\n
Present:<\/h3>\n
\nMildred Budny
\nDonald A. Bullough<\/a>
\nChristine Fell
\nL.J. French
\nTimothy C. Graham<\/a>
\nNicholas Hadgraft<\/a> \/ Nicholas Hadgraft<\/a>
\nAlice Harting\u2013Correa (afterward Alice Correa\u2013Bullough)
\nCarol Hough<\/a>
\nKathryn Lowe<\/a>
\nJohn Mollon
\nR.I. Page
\nChris Turner
\nLeslie E. Webster
\nDavid M. Wilson<\/a><\/p>\n![\"'Facsimiles,](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Facsimiles-Etc-Seminar-Invitation-17-Mar-1990-with-border.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n
\n‘The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence: Contributions to the CORPUS Project’
\nOld English Newsletter<\/em>, 28:1 (Fall 1994), A-8\u2013A-23, at page A-9 and Plate 4 on A-20
\nnow available online<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Cover](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pal-Textual-Handbook-Cover-for-Seminar-with-border.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Invitation](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/16th-Century-Interventions-Seminar-Invitation-22-Mar-1990.-with-borderpng-208x300.png\")
<\/a>The next Seminar considered
\n“Sixteenth-Century Interventions in Anglo-Saxon and Related Manuscripts”<\/strong><\/a>
\n(Parker Library, 13 April 1990).<\/p>\n